Hollywood seeks Internet2 tests, P2P oversight

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[KoRn]

"We've been working with Internet2 for a while to explore ways we can take advantage of delivering content at these extremely high speeds, and basically manage illegitimate content distribution at the same time," said Chris Russell, the MPAA's vice president of Internet standards and technology. "Those would go hand in hand."

The Internet2 project has shown Hollywood the commercial potential--and the dangers--of a network powerful enough to allow a full DVD to be transferred even faster than an ordinary MP3 might be today.

[KoRn]

Looks like the MPAA/RIAA goons are trying to manipulate the future of the Internet. For a group like this to have a way to manipulate what the internet will be for everyone is disturbing to me.

[Echo Talon]

They want really fast broadband IF THEY CAN CONTROL IT, so then they can sell their movies over the Internet and save overhead! What a bunch of losers!

[KoRn]

Yeah, this isn't good at all. The effects of what they are doing could be tragic. Imagine if any media at all had to be authorized somehow before it could be transferred on the web.

Now that one interest group has their hands in it, how long until the liberals get in on the act too!

[KoRn]

Future of The Internet in danger PING!

[blowfish]

Now that one interest group has their hands in it, how long until the liberals get in on the act too!

I'm more worried about Orrin Hatch, personally.

[Light Your World]

The internet is quickly becoming the CB Radio of the 21st century.

[af_vet_rr]

Looks like the MPAA/RIAA goons are trying to manipulate the future of the Internet. For a group like this to have a way to manipulate what the internet will be for everyone is disturbing to me.

Everybody wants to control whatever everybody else is doing...very worrisome to say the least.

[KoRn]

The Internet should be as free as the open air to everyone. If someone is breaking the law by hacking over the net, sure they need to be arrested, but controlling what people can do WITH the Internet is dangerous to this relatively new freedom of speech we all have.

We should fight as hard to keep the internet free as our founding fathers fought to make and keep our country free!

[KoRn]

Sent this story to Drudge, he seems to be interested in the file sharing war, and the Internet. I doubt he reads that submit story box on his homepage though. lol

[ShadowAce]

While I haven't read the whole article yet, is this a revival of Palladium?

[KoRn]

No mention of Palladium in the article. By the way, the original article is here: Cnet News

[KoRn]

From the sounds of the vague descriptions by the MPAA in the article, it seems they are looking for an 'Internet aware' way of controlling file sharing. Right now we can only speculate what that could mean, but it doesn't sound good at all.

It does make me think of Palladium though, but Palladium was just to do with Microsoft, avoidable by using an alternative OS. Seems what the MPAA is looking for is some kind of network aware Palladium type controls.

[ShadowAce]

I thought Palladium had some sort of hardware device in the chipset as well that MS was pushing. It's been a while since I've read anything about it, though.

If the MPAA/RIAA want to require some sort of "v-chip"-like device in all new computers, we definately need to fight it.

[ShadowAce]

Do you guys know anything about this proposed technology?

[KoRn]

Been awhile since I've read up on Palladium too. If I remember correctly, it was some hardware based system where MS could have a way to control what could be done with your computer, regarding what programs could be installed, and digital media.

I think the MPAA may be trying to get the Internet v2 consortium to provide them a way to control digital media on an Internet level. May sound ok to some people at face value, but how they would go about doing it could be very bad.

No one needs to go there. If the MPAA can do it; What's next? Can't wait for the big Government PC liberals to jump on the bandwagon. Who knows what they may try to do with it. Could FR be designated as a 'hate speech site', and be blocked on the new Internet? May sound like a stretch now, but if they start going down that road, maybe not...

[Quix]

STRONGLY AGREE.

THX.

[Quix]

STRONGLY AGREE.

THX.

[antiRepublicrat]

Do you think they'll try to get a DRM layer inserted into the OSI model, or do you think they'll just try to force patches to the current layers?

[KoRn]

"Do you think they'll try to get a DRM layer inserted into the OSI model, or do you think they'll just try to force patches to the current layers?"

Incorporating DRM into the OSI model would be high treason to the Internet users lol lets hope not. That would be a tragedy.

I haven't heard how they plan on remodeling the OSI, or even if they are planning to. I would say that with all the great improvements to WAN speed, I would think it will be redone somehow.

[Dont Mention the War]

As long as the technology exists, anyone can create their own private internet with it; there's no inherent reason you must link it into the big capital-I Internet. So if it ever comes to the point where Big Brother or Big Mickey Mouse decides what you can and cannot do online, people will simply adapt their connections to switch back and forth between the big controlled Internet and any of thousands of smaller private internets where anything goes, whenever they want to trade "unallowed" files.