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Dream weavers, heart breakers, magic makers, you’re the people who transform us. Because of you, we have something to sing about in our showers, spend hours blasting aliens, and laugh ‘til it hurts in darkened rooms. What you do is not easy. Magic never is. It takes time and money and missed dinners with your significant other and running out of excuses. It takes talent and skill. It takes something out of you. And you need and deserve to be compensated and rewarded for the magic you do. Even wizards need to eat. And eat well if they’re really good wizards.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who think stealing your work is OK. Stealing their work is not OK. Just stealing yours. And they’ve cut a hole in your pocket and its leaking money. Your money. Money for you. Money for your significant other. Money for your kids. Your money.
And the best solution, until now, has been the prosecution of a very small number of all the thieves out there. And that’s the best that you can do. You are never going to catch and prosecute them all just like you’re never going to catch and prosecute all the litter bugs, speeders and jaywalkers. And these thieves, even if they once in a while have a little twinge of conscience, think of what they’re doing as no more harmful than crossing in the middle of the block or throwing a gum wrapper on the sidewalk.
Laws don’t help. Not much anyway. Warnings help even less. And prosecution? Well, catch me if you can. That’s it. Until now.
Now we have the perfect solution. Its technology and it makes it impossible to transmit copyright protected material on the Internet via P2P. Impossible. Not unlikely. Not improbable. Impossible.
The technology is available in two ways. The first we call Clouseau®. It’s what’s known as a ‘network appliance’ and it gets plugged into a computer system exactly like the one you’d find in a college. Before you plug it in…illegal P2P. After you plug it in…no P2P.
The second is Windows® + Transport Control®. It will be part of the Windows operating system and could end up in every PC.
And, in techie terms, its ‘bulletproof’. You cannot hack it or destroy it. It cannot censor anything. It can only discriminate between legal and illegal. It cannot violate anyone’s privacy. And no First Amendment issues.
What You can Do!
So how do you get the technology deployed into computer systems? How do you stop the thieves? How do you force compliance?
Speak out. Make yourself heard. Call the RIAA and the MPAA. Call your union steward. Call your agent. Call the media. Call your Congress person. You’re a wizard. People listen to wizards. They really do.
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