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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. Comcast vs ATT by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I happen to be in an area where I have two and only two options for high speed Internet: Comcast and ATT.

    Right now, I have Comcast and am paying through the nose for it. I'm thinking of switching to ATT, which will cut my monthly bill in about half.

    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?