BBspot – MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations — Can you believe these a-holes? Is this a joke? A hoax?
Los Angeles , CA – The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.
MPAA head Dan Glickman says this needs to be regulated before things start getting too far out of control, “We didn’t act early enough with the online sharing of our copyrighted content. This time we’re not making the same mistake. We have a right to know what’s showing in a theater.”
The bill would require that any hardware manufactured in the future contain technology that tells the MPAA directly of what is being shown and specific details on the audience. The data would be gathered using various motion sensors and biometric technology.
It looks like the MPAA is finally doing for it’s business what the RIAA has done for the record industry: do all it can to ruin it.
[OK, a hoax, but a good one]
found by Bobkat
I love how people argue with the arguments made by the fictional version of the MPAA even after all the posts explaining that the piece is satire.
They just CAN’T WAIT to hurry to the bottom of this page and post some scathing comments! No time to read the earlier comments! Gotta post!
Digital Technology providers have the capability of controlling the content right down to the source. You can copy the content to analog but not to digital device. I’m not so sure consumers will buy into the biometric feedback aspect.
During the past 5 years we lost so many freedoms.
Sorry that my first post to this blog what such an embarassing one. I failed to notice the source was a sarcasm site. Please forgive!
Yes..but still totally possible!
Although, I admit, it should have been done on 4/1/07
And I do take credit for punching up the biometric aspect of it in the headline.
Did I mention hoax at the outset? I think so.
That said, I do think Bobkat fell for it.
#13 Joe. That joke was used no too long ago here in the congress. Directv was supposed to be a CIA full duplex tool for spying in latina america and especifically, here.
Death to communism
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I saw this on Digg two days ago. My first thought: You’re kidding me…then read the article and realized it was all just a joke. Last night, I hear an idiot radio talk show host ask for callers on this new “infringement” of our rights from the MPAA. Way to do your research buddy.
It’s absolutely plausible. You had me going for a minute!
BBSpot is sorta Onion for techies and geeks. So it’s a little absurd to argue over their satire “news” like:
“Microsoft’s AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer”,
“Microsoft Granted Patent for Creating Insecure Software”,
“Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users” or
“Linux Developer Gets Laid”
though they carry grains of truth and undercover criticism (that’s satire after all).
People who believe the stories on BBSpot as fact are also the ones believing the Daily Show on–hello?!–Comedy Central is the same kind of program as Anderson Cooper: 360 on CNN. Oh yeah, and pro wrestling? That’s fake, too.
And, if I may say so, “Go, Brian!”