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."

Comments

They needed a new use for the NSA gear

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:So much for my business

[omeomi]

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...

Re:Ouch.

[tx_kanuck]

what are you talking about? We don't endlessly argue on slashdot!!! Everything here is nice and polite.

So I'd better make other plans

[overshoot]

to get my holiday movies from North Africa to my relatives on NewATT?

I'm guessing they're not going to like a file transfer of casablanca.mov

Try Again

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you meant to say, "Everything here is nice and polite, jackass."

Re:SSL For All My Friends!

[Blakey Rat]

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...

New Sourceforge project for AT&T content filte

[snowblind]

Glad to see the US ISPs joining the ranks of Chinese ISP

Re:Dinosaur Managers: Please Retire!

[martinX]

Especially certain religions, which seem focused on the 'fact' that their God beats all and and that makes them right and everyone else wrong. No comment on which ones.

All of them?

Re:Ouch.

[stonedcat]

I used to think of the children constantly, but then they locked me up for it.

Re:SSL For All My Friends!

[Doc Ruby]

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.

Re:Communications Decency Act Section 230

[pyite]

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.