The right to peer inside your iPod

Despite the opinions of individuals believing this is an act of counter terrorism I don't believe so. Digital Rights Management in the media industry in my opinion has a large control over such acts to stop the use of so called "illegal formats" used on personal devices.

the corporations just want your money. its the free open source formats like ogg and flac they want to kill.

let me explain apple for a sec...

when you buy music from i-tunes its drm'd
you don;t own the music
you can only access the music with i-tunes
and they only work on apple products like i-tunes, ipod, iphone etc...

its a legal digital monopoly in a way

they want acta so they can get get the gornment to make sure you are buying their products and not some drm free song you BAUGHT or DOWNLOADED drm free.

the best way to avoid this is to put a picture of your ass on your ipod and switch to linux

This is too much! Does anyone have a right to privacy anymore?

This is inconciveable! This completely underminds what little privavcy we have left in this world. If goverments and their officals are allowed to do things illegally as long as they dont get caught by their own rules and enforcers, why cant we? Because we're suppose to set a good example for the children?

excellent post,Bahlkris..

Foolish, Let the government look at us, ALL of us. If you have nothing to hide that's when true freedom is realised.

The United States made that mistake thanks to "Baby Bush" With the Induction of the Patriot act. Don't let your Liberties go, the government should fear the people, not the other way around.

What do I know though, I'm a student that just got back from China, "Real China" as we called it. God bless our American freedoms. As Convoluted as they may be!

What I don't understand is how they plan to prove or disprove where someone obtained the media content on their computer or mp3 player. Are we all expected to show purchase receipts for our media? This agreement of the G8's is not practical, not logical, and largely unable to be enforced. They need to spent their time doing something that matters, not worrying about which multi-billion dollar corporations might be losing money.

im running out of room in my ass to sneak stuff on an airplane. Iv got a small ipod but my laptop? this could be tricky.

Well at least I never travel.

they have the freedom to see what you read and listen to so where they can determine if your a coming threat to the police state.with this information they try to use to regulate what you can read and listen to.Is freedom dead

Now people will devise a way to make their legally purchased content look like it was illegally downloaded so they can sue the hell out the government and record companies for invasion of privacy, illegal search and seizure, and emotional distress. Well, probably not, but it would be cool if they did.

@ the cute girl two posts up

Youtube/Google couldn't very well tell the courts to shove it could they?

Imagine the amount of money spent , the amount of resources wasted, looking through millions of devices, doing the 'police' work for record industries.
There's no way they would be able to verify legal vs illegal content. Especially not by just by looking at your ipod.

Use PGP people! ( google it )

Damn YouTube for selling us out.

They are telling us where to get our content to listen to. They tag everything as if to say if you create your own music, or if you listen to some underground band's music, that they offer free off their site, your illegally downloading. They use scare tactics to defer us from living the free life we were given, because big music companies want to make more money. They say its "illegal" to download music, but its okay to share music. The line is blurred and they are trying to control which way benefits them. I can buy a CD from the store and listen to it because that is legal, I can copy that CD and transport it to my other computers because that is also legal. The law says we are leased this content for a reason so that they can protect themselves from people making cash on it, however they are also abusing this reason to give justification for their actions. Its like recording a song with a cassette tape from the radio, using digital recording software to convert it into a CD mp3, then digitally splicing it into separate songs so that I can ultimately export them. Then saying you have to pay to listen to this content now! How ludicrous! This is so frustrating yet complicated. Now with the thing they are trying to pass now, its okay for them to violate our rights to check our mp3 or laptop devices for what type of music or what origin the music is from. What if from there they get "probable cause" to search whatever they want from you. Now I'm not denying the possibility that a method like this can do some good, but I am saying that is method is taking the wrong approach. By violating our rights to listen to what we want, believe in what we want, and say what ever we want. This is more than just scanning our mp3's this becomes giving the government too much power. I've read the other story about the government spying bill which will grant them the ability to spy with no limits or restrictions. They now in addition to screening our emails and phone calls, can do much more but to their discretion.
Now I may start sounding a bit paranoid here but have you ever wondered what would happen if the gps units in phones, and in cars are to be used to keep tabs on you? What is to happen then? I mean now they have a network of objects we interact with almost carelessly, that can net us to where we are and what we do. It started with credit card stamps in police investigation, now perhaps gps in illegal music trials. When will it stop? Its more so the people behind the puppet lines that abuse rather than the advancements of technology, as history tells these minds do whatever to get control. Hopefully we will not be that object.

Seems like a total disconnect between an idea and its implementation. Which sadly seems typical for our goverment.

Don't sit there and post your disgust....use that passion of disgust and contact someone that can do something about it.

Don't let all that fire die as you type and post.

Apathy allows so much by doing so little.

And who is going through thier stuff? If they can look at mine I want to see their laptop/mp3 player, phone bill/cell phone and top dresser drawer..oh, ya, their fridge too..

Why do they think this will work again?

Not only is this frightening and potentially invasive, but don't they have better things to do? I'm off to live in a cave

This is privacy violation. I don't want anybody to know I have Britney in my playlist.

I guess they'd have a hard time going to everyone's house and checking for their cd collection. Dumb.

And How does this relate to Youtube? This is so vague.

The thing is though, SO many people do it, they can't track everyone down.
That'd be just ludicris.
If whenever I want a CD etc, I either buy it myself, or I get my friends to copy the CD for me.

But how can we prove it? It's just stupid.

Basically, they do things like this just because they have nothing else better to do.
Illegal downloading has been around for YEARS. Why act now?

It's just pathetic.

Everything on my ipod came from a CD i bought or a file i created, so I have a free conscience. But I wouldn't be able to prove that in an airport.

This is crazy..How do you prove it isn't illegal? I have a thousand mp3's on my laptop..How do I prove where I obtained them? And how long does it take to go through a laptop and mp3 player? This has happened to people crossing the border between the u.s. and canada ..They can keep your laptop...and return it to you later..I am not taking anything w/ me when traveling anymore.

Uh oh, all that free music doesn't sound so free anymore. This could get ugly.