April 15th, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough The entertainment industry has sent a series of proposals to the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at the request of the Coordinator. The reason for that request was to get some ideas of the industry’s viewpoint on intellectual property policing as work begins on forming the Joint Strategic Plan for IP enforcement.
Some of the ‘highlights’ of the industry submissions (thanks to the EFF for putting these up) include :
There are several technologies and methods that can be used by network administrators and providers…these include [consumer] tools for managing copyright infringement from the home (based on tools used to protect consumers from viruses and malware).
Oh boy! We all know how well installed content management DRM programs tend to run! And, is this software going to be determining what is and isn’t allowed on someone’s system? Is it HAL 9000? It would have to be to be able to make those determinations…and I don’t really want my home PC to start plotting to kill me.
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