The “Break it Down” Blog

Was browsing through Slashdot today and saw two interesting articles. It looks like nations, naturally under the guidence of the RIAA/MPAA and similar groups, are beginning to move ‘anti-piracy’ legislation forward.

The first part of the problem is to give ISPs complete amnesty from pirated material, which will protect them from litigation and give them an “all clear” to begin monitoring their traffic like crazy as compensation for the amnesty.

This is going to get discussed at the G8 Summit as nations and nation-wide ISPs begin to collaborate on filtering, monitoring and data mining of user’s traffic.

Then we have a story that ISPs will be tasked up with the responsibility of copyright enforcement as they monitor traffic travelling over their wires. The days of ISPs simply providing a service and nothing more are eroding away to some singular global monitoring entity. The writing is on the wall that at some point the unification of corporate giants and monitoring tools integrated with government programs will give us one giant, unified and completely monitored network that is mined every nano-second of every moment.

If it hasn’t happened already, I’m sure some AI-driven intelligence databases know more about your profile, likes/dislikes and habits than you are actually aware of yourself. Might be interesting to get a peek at this information and see if I have a chronically bad habit of looking up funny cat pictures or not

BONUS: As the bullshit-bonus story of the day a lawsuit filed against YouTube by Viacom and enforced by a judge’s ruling will force YouTube to give Viacom a complete log of every video, every user has ever watched. Besides the absolutely rediculous volume of that data, what in God’s name does Viacom even plan on doing with it?

I think it will be a year before they have the capacity to even process it correctly and from there then what… more RIAA-lawsuit mining? They just hunt though the trillions of access records looking for every person that ever watched a Viacom-copywritten piece of material, find their IP, and issue a lawsuit against them?

Brilliant… I guess if it’s failing for the RIAA, why not try it again… and see if it works that time.

I do like that these actions are making most people hate media and take a more appropriate approach to it than an addictive “must have” attitude that these entities want us to have. I can hum pretty damn good… I don’t need music on my iPod!