Wired.com is revealing how the Motion Picture Association of America doesn’t like Ars Technica on the dilemma regarding regulatory overreach. Wired reported that MPAA staffers may think along the following lines, “ars Technica opposes our attempt to gain ‘broadcast flag’ control over people’s digital devices,” they might say. “And it doesn’t appreciate our plan to censor the Internet.”
The U.S. Copyright Office shortly will have a look at a request which may essentially make content security on DVD immaterial. Just about every three years the Copyright Office listens to requests regarding exemptions towards the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and this time around the general public electronic digital advocacy group Public Knowledge is asking about the government to legalize the capacity for customers to develop copies of Dvd disks secured with content scrambling system copy security software.
Wikipedia will go down just for 24-hours as a way to demonstrate the U.S. anti-piracy legislation – (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Worst-case scenarios of the planned new rules have been discussed. The Electronic Frontier Foundation speculates, “Instead of complying with the DMCA, a copyright owner may now be able to use these new provisions to effectively shut down a site by cutting off access to its domain name, its search engine hits, its ads, and its other financing even if the safe harbors would apply.”