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posted by chromas on Saturday August 25 2018, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-wouldn't-download-a-speech dept.

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The entertainment industries are growing increasingly frustrated with major Internet platforms that, in their view, are not doing enough to tackle online piracy.

This was also the topic of a speech given by MPAA chief Charles Rivkin, during the TPI Aspen Forum yesterday.

[...] "I want to address one of the most vibrant and interconnected ecosystems in human history. That, of course, is the internet. And as we meet, the healthy and vibrant internet that we all want is in serious jeopardy," Rivkin says.

[...] While the complaints about Internet piracy are not new, the MPAA ties piracy in with more recent debates about fake news, election meddling, and hate speech. From Cambridge Analytica to Infowars.

Rivkin calls for a national conversation on how to return the Internet to a place of vibrant but civil discourse. A place where fake news, hate speech, and piracy are properly dealt with.

Eventually, this leads the MPAA's boss to Silicon Valley. Rivkin sees a major role for Internet platforms to do more to stop piracy and other types of abuse. If that doesn't happen voluntarily, the US Government could step in, he suggests

[...] The widespread problem of online piracy is a sign of worse to come, the MPAA chief suggests.

"Online piracy is also the proverbial canary in a coal mine. The same pervasive theft that my industry faces is part of a continuum of toxic developments that harm all of us in this ecosystem – consumers, creators, and commercial operators alike," he says.

In his speech, Rivkin refers to the "broken windows" theory to illustrate his point. This theory suggests that an atmosphere of lawlessness is created when small crimes are left unpunished. Seeing broken windows in the streets makes it more likely that others will start vandalizing as well.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-the-internets-canary-in-the-coal-mine-mpaa-chief-says-180821/


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @07:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @07:19AM (#726466)

    Rivkin calls for a national conversation on how to return the Internet to a place of vibrant but civil discourse. A place where fake news, hate speech, and piracy are properly dealt with.

    When oh when was the internet a "place of vibrant but civil discourse"? I beg you, link me that magical news group / mailing list / web forum / irc server that wasn't trolled on a weekly basis at the very least and that didn't have the occasional Nazi nutjob spreading fud & poison. Go on, I'll wait...

    Not that I don't agree with you, and I wish to hell I still had the fan-fold printouts from the early 80's with some classic early examples from the news groups (1983-85, we had limited access to ARPANET, so had to talk nicely to the sysadmins to abuse the connection when it was up, they wouldn't allow us direct access, so we had to give them a list of groups we wanted, and once a week we got a large fan-fold printout of them), you would have to agree than no matter how bad the Trolls were, the Internet was, in general, a nicer place before shysters like this Rivkin lamprey began attaching themselves to it.

    Still, Eternal September eh?, the gift that keeps on giving....

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