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AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content
An anonymous reader writes "The LA Times reports that AT&T has announced plans to work with the Hollywood movie studios and major recording labels to implement new content filtering systems on their network. The plans raise many troubling legal issues including privacy concerns, false positive filtering, and liability for failure to filter."
Dateline: June 13th, 9:04PM
Today, a group of hackers calling themselves "The Army of the Night" have announced that they've defeated AT&Ts recently announced content filtering scheme.
This makes total sense, if they dont do this they are underutilizing their networking spying equipment. You need to keep that gear operating for a certain number of years in order to make the total cost of ownership values work out.
I had been considering switching from Comcast to AT&T as soon as DSL became available at my house... so much for that idea.
Talk about a choice between Giant Douchebag and Turd Sandwich...
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what are you talking about? We don't endlessly argue on slashdot!!! Everything here is nice and polite.
Now, if that makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me? I think I've confused myself.
I'm guessing they're not going to like a file transfer of casablanca.mov
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
I think you meant to say, "Everything here is nice and polite, jackass."
If we act now, while we still can, before AT&T and their telco/cableco cartel shuts us down.
We're almost convinced, but I think we need a few more random bold tags before it can happen...
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No, no, no, it isn't you insensitive clod. People on /. will argue about anything. Even whether or not they will argue about anything. Or nothing...
Glad to see the US ISPs joining the ranks of Chinese ISP
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Try saying it out loud, emphasizing the words in bold. You can do it. You'll gradually learn to understand how to read silently, with the emphasis in appropriate places, and maybe even stop moving your lips while you read. It'll be harder for you to understand the words, why some are emphasized, and how it's not random. But with practice, you'll learn to fool listeners into believing that you know how to read.
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If they do the only thing they can do, which is to install a bunch of Cisco PIX boxes and filter all P2P traffic down to 0.001 bit/sec, couldn't that be considered Denial-of-service to legal content providers on P2P nets ?
Silly wabbit, PIX are for kids! Seriously, though, no one uses them. My company buys millions upon millions of dollars of Cisco gear per year and zero PIXes. They're kinda sucky. Just FYI.
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