Wired.com is confirming that the Motion Picture Association of America doesn’t like Ars Technica on the dilemma involving regulatory overreach. Wired explained 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 in the near future is going to look into a request that can actually render content protection on DVD of no concern. Every few years the Copyright Office hears requests regarding exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and this time around the public digital advocacy organization Public Knowledge happens to be pestering the government to legalize the ability for people to produce copies of Dvd disks encrypted with content scrambling system replicate protection software.
Wikipedia will definitely go down for 24-hours as a way to demonstrate the U.S. anti-piracy laws – (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Worst-case situations of the proposed new legislation are getting 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.”