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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: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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  4. 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!

  5. 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.
  6. 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....