p2pnet - rss feed: Kills P2P file sharing!
p2pnet.net news:- “A company called SafeMedia claims it can do what the individual and combined multi-billion-dollar might of the entertainment cartels haven’t been able to do with unstinting help from suborned governments and police forces around the world,” p2pnet posted back in March. “Stop file sharing.”
Yup. And it’s all down to something SafeMedia calls Clouseau.
As we also pointed out, “Inspector Jacques Clouseau is, you’ll recall, Peter Sellers’ brilliant characterization of a ridiculous, ham-handed French gendarme who wends his way through the Pink Panther series getting everything it’s possible to get wrong, wrong. And when he does succeed, it’s by mistake.”
Or as the Wikipedia puts it, “In many countries … this character’s name has become synonymous with policemen who keep making ludicrous assumptions and are utterly unable to crack even the easiest case.”
But SafeMedia is a subscriber to the dripping tap principle so successfully employed by the entertainment cartels who believe if you use the mainstream media to say something often enough, it’ll eventually come to be accepted as fact, no matter how patently ridiculous it is.
It also helps to have obscure ’stars’ making back-up statements written by PR hacks, their endorsements coupled with blatant plugs for whenever they to be involved with at the moment, as with ‘rock legend’ Eddie Money.
Meanwhile, as the EFF’s (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Peter Eckersley says in Deep Links, “Filtering tools merely drive the development of sharing tools that are resistant to monitoring (including small networks like Allpeers, and encrypted versions of BitTorrent and eMule), and drive students to start using them.
“They don’t get us any closer to a real solution that gets artists paid while letting fans continue to share music. Universities are already being forced to expend significant resources doing the RIAA’s dirty work, and they should think very carefully before implementing expensive tools like SafeMedia’s.”
We wonder how long it’ll be before United Artists, who in 1963 released the original pink Panther movie featuring Clouseau, sues SafeMedia copyright violation and trademark infringement?
Also See:
p2pnet - Clouseau takes on The Pirates!, March 13, 2007
obscure ’stars’ - ‘If you truly like music, don’t steal it.’, June 12, 2007
Deep Links - More Ludicrous Marketing Claims About P2P Filtering, April 9, 2007
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