p2pnet.net News:- Lawsuits aren’t the only things just launched by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).

It’s also released its new Movie Studio Piracy software to allow parents – or anyone else who gets hold of it – to scour computers looking for content to delete on behalf of the movie studios.

It doesn’t seem possible they could actually get away with this, does it? But that’s Hollywood.

The application was developed by DtecNet Software, a Danish software firm whose chairman is, by an amazing coincidence, Johan Schluter, a member of the Big Music record label cartel’s IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), and which also boasts the Danish Anti-Piracy Group’s Niels Bo Jorgensen as a board member.

And the ap seems to be about as @#$%ed up as the entertainment industry’s attempts to regain control of what used to be its customer base by suing them and trying to kill anything which looks even remotely like competition.

The MPAA’s Parent File Scan is supposed to allow parents see if a kid’s PC has ‘illegal’ movie files on it.

We had a look and it doesn’t include anything you have to sign declaring you’re a Mum or a Dad before it lets you DL it. So presumably, kids with Orwellian mentalities can also scan their parents PCs and report them to the MPAA for ‘violations’.

dslreports has a number of posts from people who've tried the software out.,

One from hbguys says, “I just installed this on a clean machine with only Windows XP on it. It found the Windows default WAV files as copyrighted material and it wanted to delete them. Boy that is great software. What will they think of next? I know software that tells parents to delete the Program Files folder because P2P could possibly be installed into it. Or how about offering to reformat your hard drive so there is no possibility of downloading copyright material?”

Another says, “The program should be changed to ‘MediaKiller’ thats all it does is search for all *.mp3/*.wav and video extensions and asks you to delete all of them. What a program. Thanks MPAA.”

But that’s no surprise.

“The program does not distinguish between legal and illegal copies, as it is up to the user to determine, whether the files found by the program have been acquired legally, or whether the material should be deleted,” says the MPAA.

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awehr, check your dnotes at dmusic.com

Here's a link to the "software"

http://dtecnet.purestatic.com/

If any parent were to use this, they would be faced with a very angry child.

And screw up any game on the computer that uses sound files. Especially the ones they paid for.

Sorry. I meant "paid extra" for. As in "not solitaire". (I really shouldn't post after 2am...)

I wonder what kind of spyware it installs.

Haha! This is funny. When even Micro$uck gets they're hands on these guys they're doomed. This will skrew up every program on a computer, instantly. The game industry will muder!! Mwa ha ha ha!

What a bunch of junk what a waste of programming talent.

“The program does not distinguish between legal and illegal copies, as it is..."

...impossible.

this can be easyly achieved by windows media player. do a search for media. select all files and delete. why download another software, available free with every windows pc. bwa ha ha ha ha

all the media player companies should sue for copyright. since every media player has this technology built in. deleting is optional of course.

Where is the talked about filter that the RIAA is so hot on? After all, if it is so easy to put one in, why isn't it there to tell us that those files with mp3 designation that are yours and aquired through legal means should remain on your computer?

This is nothing but a very basic "all files" search and can be done without a program using basic computer skills. So much for a "valued program". As you can see the search no more can tell which is which than any other program could tell.

So where is this filter? I wanna see it in action.

It searches for and asks you to delete mp3 files?

Wow.. they should not be allowed to put this product out there. And if you use it, you shouldn't be allowed to live.

Its clearly targeted at worried, non-computer-skilled parents. They will see the pre-movie shorts and other propaganda and start worrying: Are their children stealing? Are they starting a life of crime? Will the FBI be smashing the door down? Then this convenient program appears to tell the parents if they need to worry, and naturally many download and use it.

They then delete all infringing media files on their childrens PC - as well as all non-infringing media files, including those from legal pay-download services.

So, just about any file or application on the computer that uses sound files, right?

Hmm, this will be interesting.

Well, it probably doesn't search for .ogg files.

I hope someone tests this with a good firewall to see if it connects out anywhere

Wait, wait wait, I want to see these assholes add the search criteria for and .exe file. After all software piracy is a problem is it not? This way we can have our parents completely fuck our computer. Any kids have their own computer and think their parents will invade your privacy so much as to this, i suggest a password when your screensaver turns off.

That's good. The program can be modified to delete .exe files. (Nevermind that the non-infringing .exe files will be included, too; at least it'll be sure to get the infringing ones, and that's what we're after, right?)

And, hey, just to be sure -- let's include .dll files as well. Can't be too careful, you know.

So, let's see now. (checking progress)
We'll be disabling sound media files, graphic media files, .exe files, and .dll files . . . hmm . . . yep, that oughta do it!
Heh-heh, betcha the brats can't do anything bad with their computers now!

Diogenes2 you're right. Looks like a good phishing program. Someone modifies it, concerned parents downloads it, uses it, and zingo windows files are gone and the computer goes to hades.

Another way to get money. MPAA, RIAA and all the other "Organisations" wants get control over the world. They try anything, it gets more and more dirty tricks. Don't let them spy on you!