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MPAA Boss Makes Case for ISP Content Filtering

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the same-old-routine dept.

creaton writes "At the annual UBS Global & Media Communications Conference yesterday, MPAA boss Dan Glickman banged on the copyright filtering drum during a 45-minute speech. Glickman called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue and told the audience that it cost the studios $6 billion annually. His solution: technology, especially in the form of ISP filtering. 'The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected ... and I think that's a great opportunity.' AT&T has already said it plans to filter content, but others may be more reluctant to go along, notes Ars Technica: 'ISPs that are concerned with being, well, ISPs aren't likely to see many benefits from installing some sort of industrial-strength packet-sniffing and filtering solution at the core of their network. It costs money, customers won't like the idea, and the potential for backlash remains high.'"

6 of 282 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Neat by junglee_iitk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Encryption is only for criminals.

    Captain Copyright told me last night.

  2. One Solution by pat+mcguire · · Score: 5, Funny

    ISPs try to do the same thing with spam, and spam still arrives in my inbox. It seems logical then that the best way to get around ANY filter is to change the name to one with genitalia spelled in leetspeak. On an unrelated note, my download of TransP3N1Sformers[2006]DvDrip[Eng] - aXXo is almost done.

  3. Piracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Glickman called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue

    Can't the Navy or Coast Guard help them with this?

  4. Re:Make the MPAA pay for it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTPOYSAIYHTWIANTITEIA? (What's the point of your stupid acronym if you have to write it all next to it to explain it anyways?)

  5. Re:Neat by wamerocity · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we should take a note from modern day politics. I think they should stop referring to music that people downloaded without paying as "stolen" or "illegal" but we should refer it "undocumented music" or is on a "guest-listenership plan"

    After all, people are just taking the music that no one wants to buy, right? :D

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  6. Re:Neat by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw a bumber sticker: "If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then drug dealers are unlicensed pharmacists"

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