Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter

slashqwerty writes "Unsatisfied with the proprietary copyright filter Google recently unveiled, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has called for an industry standard to filter copyrighted material. Mr. Dauman has the backing of Microsoft, Disney, and Universal. 'They reflect the fact that there ought to be a filtering system in place on the part of technology companies,' he noted. 'Most responsible companies have followed that path. What no one wants is a proprietary system that benefits one company. It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with incompatible systems.' How would an industry standard impact freedom of speech and in particular censorship on the internet? How would it affect small, independent web sites?"

Comments

Onoes, soon they'll be

[Null Nihils]

"in ur internets filtrin ur conection."

But only for copyright, not for other things, like talking about the ****&%$#@~ [NO CARRIER]

Re:Youtube

[deftcoder]

Get away from the terminal, man! You've posted 17 comments on /. in the last hour and a half. Jesus Christ.

Also, use a real distro like Debian or something if you insist on using Linux. ;)