TorrentSpy has been ordered by a judge to start tracking IP information of their visitors. Whole bunch of people are horrified, suddenly concerned about their rights. The same people that I know that go to the U.S. on shopping trips, standing in line to get their fingerprints taken so that they can get a better deal on a pair of jeans and visit Universal Studios, who think that what happens in the U.S. affects only U.S. citizens. People for whom what passes for defending their rights is uninformed whinings about CAFTA, who have never had any interest in encryption or ensuring their privacy, and who now are waking up only because someone threatened to turn off their TV set.
Somehow I find it hard to be sympathetic.
At least the MPAA is doing something positive. If they weren’t such greedy, power-drunk rat bastards, none of these sheep would have woken up. I guess it’s a start.