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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by DigitalSea on Monday May 27, 2013 @01:38AM (#5773585)
There is no way this will ever pass, this is the most ridiculous sounding proposed legislation I have ever heard. You think SOPA is bad if something like this were to ever be passed theoretically of course, you can bet the world would be a sad, dark place to live in.

There are consequences to this kind of thing and many things to consider. I mean imagine if hackers somehow managed to find a security exploit in the malware the entertainment companies are forcefully installing on peoples computers? Ransomware one minute, botnet the next.

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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by keithpeter on Monday May 27, 2013 @03:02AM (#5773742)
"...you can bet the world would be a sad, dark place to live in."

I suspect $world = USA here. The chances of anything as daft as this happening in Europe are small. Some European countries already have taxes on blank media/contributions to copyright organisations. Australia and Canada had court action against Sony last time this was tried.

UK politicians do persist in trying to pass legislation allowing monitoring all communications in UK, but we all know how effective that will be.

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