http://torrentfreak.com/m...irated-content-130424/
 
 

Uh, so I'll install a tool to prevent myself from pirating.  Yeah I'll just go ahead and do that

I don't see this going very far until all, I guess all antivirus programs? do this as a whole.

How can people cheer for internet censorship.

MSim

How can people cheer for internet censorship.

 
Excluding the fact this will encourage people to not use McAfee or anti Virus.

Not that I pirate, but give me a break....  I don't use McAfee and never will...  I would go without anti-virus before I use McAfee...  If I ever decide I want to pirate, and I have McAfee installed, i guess the solution would be to uninstall it. 
 
Note to Pirates:  If you steal/borrow/backup whatever, uninstall software that keeps you from accomplishing your goal.  Wow...  that's hard... What a joke!  Nice police world!

Actually in France that is exactly what they do for repeat offenses!
 

Kopius

In my opinion...The only way to stop a pirate, is to turn there internet connection off.

The company who controls the software that detects "copyrighted material" gets to say what is allow and what isn't.  Can you not see how easy it would be for them to censor the internet.  
 
IMO it would give corporations way too much power. Lets say a  review site bashes a product and uses a image of it, whats stopping the maker of that product filing a DMCA over the fair use image and causing that website to be flagged on McAfee bs software.
 
 

rjohnson11

This has nothing to do with internet censorship. This has to do with pirating copyrighted material.

MSim

How can people cheer for internet censorship.

 
Everyone else replies down here FYI
 
 
 

I'm going to patent technology that prevents links to midget porn. 

They will just find new ways around this anyways technology.

In my mind, analogous to the only way to reduce trash is to just use less in order to waste less (by going after the source and not symptoms), therefore the only way to stop pirating is to control the use of whatever is being pirated either by:

1. Quit making it available for personal use or one-time individual sale, and have movies/music/software accessed from another place entirely, either at the store or create a new venue that allows for accessing analogous to a shared bank account.  I think this is what Netflix and others are doing.
2. Make it free to access/use and get revenue some other way, maybe through advertisement or something; like free-to-play games, but not installed on your own computer and will require always online.  I think this is the future of gaming where rendering is done elsewhere and the future PC is just a terminal kiosk.
3. combine #1 and #2.

They already have this kinda technology somewhat, the virus scanners will think its a threat when its nothing but a false positive.
 
For them to completely block it they would have to remove the feuture in the virus scanner where you can set it to ignore certain folders. Thats how people get around it.

lol i find it funny that McAfee is even bothering developing new tech when they by definition have a program considered a virus as it hogs the system and runs poorly.

I dont pirate but Ill be damned if ill allow a piece of software that controls my system over my head into my pc!

I am totally not a pirate. I will totally go out and spend 60$ for a single play-through game which I will never again touch. I totally condone this action  . They will never stop pirates, ever. Get a warning? Ok I'll just move to a... Seedbox I think is what it's called? Unless they move to cloud gaming (which I don't think is even in the testing stages yet, don't quote me on that) it will never be stopped, no matter how hard they try.