In the latest desperate attempt to maintain fascistoid control over music distribution, Recording Industry Association of America, commonly known as RIAA, is working with a biometrics company Veritouch and a Swedish design company Thinking Materials on a brand new copy protection system that is supposed to completely prevent illegal copying of music. Result of their labor will be a wireless music player that will require fingerprint authorization (!!!) in order to play music! Yes, you read correctly - once you purchase Metallica's latest single, you will only be able to listen to it if you press your finger against a small reader that will scan your fingerprint and verify your identity by matching it with identical fingerprint in RIAA's database!
Implications of this are tremendous - not only will listening to music become extremely impractical, since you will have to go through process of identification every time you want to hear your favorite song, but you will also no longer be able to lend your music to friends! Basically, your music will be invalid when you are not around.
But that's not even the worst part. Obviously, for this system to work, RIAA will need to have fingerprints and personal information of every individual user in its database! Basically, what RIAA is proposing is a violation of privacy of unseen proportions! It will be like having a police record without having committed a crime!
If this policy is legalized (and it most likely will be, since US government is a puppet of world's corporate leaders who are united in a discussion forum known as the Trilateral Commission), it will basically abolish all democratic rights on privacy that were ever conceived. It will be a breach of privacy so huge it would give George Bush a boner. The realizeation of the corporations-rule-the-world distopia. First major step in creating a totalitarian corporate dicatorship where consumers are nothing but mindless drones and corporations have absolute control over every aspect of their life. If this mischievious system is ever applied, it will mean effective end of democracy.
It is obvious that RIAA are bent on establishing totalitarian control over music industry, and it is also obvious they don't intend to let trivial things such as "law", "Constitution" and "human rights" get in their way. Never mind the fact that almost every unbiased research so far has shown that music sharing has absolutely no detrimential effect whatsoever on record sales. You know, I'm in a way sorry P2P sharing was ever invented, since it seems to have opened a Pandora's box of persecutions, attacks against privacy and violations of democratic principles. Someone should definitely put an abrupt end to RIAA's fascist reign before consumers themselved decide they had enough and take matters (and baseball bats) in their own hands. Though I normally don't promote violent solutions to problems, with its latest initiative RIAA has gone so far out of line that physical attacks against anyone associated with this neofascist organization would be completely justified. If this keeps up, next global revolutionary movement will begin with music, and you can bet I'll be in the front lines when masses begin to (literally) demolish the columns of the New World Order.
We must dissent.
Implications of this are tremendous - not only will listening to music become extremely impractical, since you will have to go through process of identification every time you want to hear your favorite song, but you will also no longer be able to lend your music to friends! Basically, your music will be invalid when you are not around.
But that's not even the worst part. Obviously, for this system to work, RIAA will need to have fingerprints and personal information of every individual user in its database! Basically, what RIAA is proposing is a violation of privacy of unseen proportions! It will be like having a police record without having committed a crime!
If this policy is legalized (and it most likely will be, since US government is a puppet of world's corporate leaders who are united in a discussion forum known as the Trilateral Commission), it will basically abolish all democratic rights on privacy that were ever conceived. It will be a breach of privacy so huge it would give George Bush a boner. The realizeation of the corporations-rule-the-world distopia. First major step in creating a totalitarian corporate dicatorship where consumers are nothing but mindless drones and corporations have absolute control over every aspect of their life. If this mischievious system is ever applied, it will mean effective end of democracy.
It is obvious that RIAA are bent on establishing totalitarian control over music industry, and it is also obvious they don't intend to let trivial things such as "law", "Constitution" and "human rights" get in their way. Never mind the fact that almost every unbiased research so far has shown that music sharing has absolutely no detrimential effect whatsoever on record sales. You know, I'm in a way sorry P2P sharing was ever invented, since it seems to have opened a Pandora's box of persecutions, attacks against privacy and violations of democratic principles. Someone should definitely put an abrupt end to RIAA's fascist reign before consumers themselved decide they had enough and take matters (and baseball bats) in their own hands. Though I normally don't promote violent solutions to problems, with its latest initiative RIAA has gone so far out of line that physical attacks against anyone associated with this neofascist organization would be completely justified. If this keeps up, next global revolutionary movement will begin with music, and you can bet I'll be in the front lines when masses begin to (literally) demolish the columns of the New World Order.
We must dissent.
