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

DMCA implications

[Anonymous Coward]

If I use encryption (e.g ssh) to transfer a file over AT&T's network that would otherwise be filtered, would I be guilty of circumventing a copy protection mechanism per the DMCA? Are we only a step away from outlawing encrypted network traffic?

Re:Ouch.

[Just Some Guy]

police beating protesters or (God forbid!) that troublemaker Michael Moore.

You have pictures of police beating Michael Moore? url plz thx.