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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. The friendly way about it... by Loibisch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The friendly way about it is not to mess with people's traffic in the first place. Once you have filtering equipment in place it can easily be misused to filter out anything any power with enough money might wish to black out.

    You do not want to open that box...

  2. Encryption??? Hello?? by dogganos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anybody home? More and more p2p apps are including encrypted p2p sessions at the application layer. Did anybody think about that?