Parents asked to join the movie Gestapo.
The US movie industry has launched a new offensive consisting of lawsuits and software than enables parents to check up on what files their children are downloading. Evidently the software is designed only to "protect" copyrights and makes no distinction between smut, G rated movies or music clips and is prone to identify "false positives."
A new spate of law suits has also been launched. In the US, the penalities for downloading music files or movies are so severe that if full awards were achieved by the lawsuits, they could exceed the industry's entire profits for a year. Clearly this is an area of legislation that has been hijacked by the existing media establishment at the expense of new media ventures and the public's rights in the pubic domain.
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