Feb
7
RIAA spyware infringement filters?
Posted by Dirk Avery at 5:40 pm under Copyright, Internet.
Last year, one of Google’s responses to Viacom’s copyright infringement suit was an infringement filter. Although Viacom is not crazy about it, imagine if the technology became not only common but mandatory. If RIAA had its way, your ISP might start filtering everything you do or, worse still, you could get a spyware infringement filter for your very own computer. On the upside, if you accidentally started to independently create something that had previously been copyrighted, it would alert you. (You’re in Word typing up a memo and a big red pop-up covers the screen: “That sentence has already been copyrighted. Try again!”)
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