Hollywood Begging for Total Power.. again.

Hollywood’s new campaign for government permission to police the Internet for copyright theft began this month with a segment on, of all places, CBS’s Sixty Minutes. Viewers expecting another of the shows’ self-described “hard-hitting investigative reports” watched a feature called The Movie Pirates, in which a shocked Leslie Stahl disclosed what was apparently a revelation to her—that people go into multiplexes with camcorders, record the movie, then package and sell it on the street.
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“Today, literally anyone with an internet connection can do it,” Paramount warned—”it” being copyright theft. “Clunky websites are being replaced by legitimate looking and legitimate feeling pirate movie websites, a perception enhanced by the presence of premium advertisers and subscription fees processed by major financial institutions.”

So what does the MPAA crowd want? The commentary spoke favorably of France’s new “three strikes” law, which allows a single judge to order Internet disconnections for illegal file sharers, the United Kingdom’s “Digital Britain” report, which recommends that ISPs identify and notify such users “so that they can be subjected to targeted legal action,” and Sweden’s new law requiring ISPs to reveal content infringers IP addresses.

Read the whole article on Ars

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