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ISPs To Filter Traffic For Copyright Holders?

Posted by kdawson on from the superhighway-becomes-cop dept.

Dr. Zarkov writes "At a CES forum, representatives of AT&T and other ISPs discussed the need to filter traffic at the network level, to stop the transfer of copyrighted material. An AT&T spokesman said they 'would have to handle such network filtering delicately, and do more than just stop an upload dead in its tracks, or send a legalistic cease and desist form letter to a customer. "We've got to figure out a friendly way to do it, there's no doubt about it," he said.'"

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  1. No More Network Congestion? by zotz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since pretty much everything these days is automatically copyrighted at the time of creation or fixing, I guess the days of network congestion will soon be pretty much over then?

    all the best,

    drew

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  2. AT&T is my ISP by An+anonymous+reader · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I think this is total Bullsh*&*^&*(&^*& CARRIER LOST...

  3. Re:The friendly way about it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indeed, but where do you think all the pressure is really coming from, eh?

    What we really need are better communities and data compression methods. With those, we could skip using the Interweb all together and use good old dial up BBS for information and small transfers and for the larger files, we could use the wireless routers in our neighbourhoods to share files with eachother - and if anyone cracks our WEP Key, they'll have broken the law, so knowing what we are sharing without breaking the law would be difficult.

  4. Re:Why does AT&T want this? by sjaguar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could someone copyright spam so that could be filtered at the network level please?

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  5. LOL by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear ISPs,

          You are hereby notified that the content of this slashdot post is Copyright (c) 2008 by myself. I reserve all rights to this post. Please filter it appropriately to prevent duplication of this post.

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    1. Re:LOL by Ibag · · Score: 2, Funny

      If they start preventing duplicate posts, do you think that they could prevent duplicate articles too? I might even pay money for that!

  6. Re:My solution... by domatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also, don't ever underestimate the bandwidth potential of a pack of blank DVDs and a parcel post.



    Yeah, but the latency is just awful.
  7. Re:What he *really* means by Dan+Schulz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Of course, you could become AT&T's partner, if you would like to pay them some large amount of money... I do every month. It's called a phone bill.
  8. Re:Comcast vs ATT by russotto · · Score: 2, Funny

    But price aside, I'm curious what the Slashdot crowd thinks of the choice between ATT and Comcast simply from a moral ground. Which company, in your view, is "better"? And I don't mean which company makes it easier to pirate materials, but which company behaves more ethically?


    You're kidding, right? That's like deciding between Stalin and [censored by Godwin], between Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti, between Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, etc....