Comments on: MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations Including Biometric Spying in Your Own Home?

By: EW

EW — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:01:11 +0000

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!”

By: G.J.

G.J. — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:37:49 +0000

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).

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:34:53 +0000

It’s absolutely plausible. You had me going for a minute!

By: topcad

topcad — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:10:59 +0000

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.

By: chrisfromnl

chrisfromnl — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:39:08 +0000

“About

Called “the world’s greatest tech humour site” by The Register, BBspot creates entertainment for the geekier side of the world. BBspot produces a variety of features like fake news stories satirizing the tech and political worlds, the BBspot Mailbag which pokes fun at the Believers (people who believe our fake news) and much more. BBspot was started by Brian Briggs in April of 2000 as a hobby to bring some fun to the web, but grew to the point where Brian “quit his day job” and made the site his full-time occupation in January of 2003. “

By: pedro

pedro — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:30:19 +0000

#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

By: John C Dvorak

John C Dvorak — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:49:00 +0000

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.

By: Bobkat

Bobkat — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:04:06 +0000

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!

By: Richard Brill

Richard Brill — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:42:21 +0000

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.

By: bquady

bquady — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:59:06 +0000

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!

By: MPAAA 12 Step Program

MPAAA 12 Step Program — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:24:51 +0000

Does this mean we can’t watch movies naked anymore? Bummer.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:13:03 +0000

Come on Dvorak! You couldn’t have possibly fallen for this crapola…

Next you’ll think that big business is monitoring our credit card purchases… sheesh.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:07:38 +0000

Isn’t this part of the 1984 movie?
What will they do when they find out that nobody’s watching their crap.

By: PayneX

PayneX — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:58:05 +0000

*slaps forehead*
Can’t believe this is still going around.

By: noname

noname — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:31:32 +0000

It seems currently it very unlikely there is a market feasable, practical and reliable “biometric” monitoring system to determine audience membership profiles in home theaters.

Any marketable system to win consumer confidence would have to be really practical, reliable, undefeated, unobtrusive and easy to use/setup system which of course is unlikely to be cheap. Reliable and undefeatable rules out Microsoft as an OEM. Are people really going to shell out bucks for this.

Me thinks this a hoax.