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UK ISPs Resistant to Monitoring Users
ethericalzen writes "An article from BBC News online states that ISPs in the UK are resistant to the government's desires for monitoring their users' data. The government seeks to have ISPs turn off the access of users who are 'persistent pirates'. The ISPs are citing technical and legal reasons for why they do not wish to do this. Legals reasons include surveillance laws which prohibit ISPs from monitoring a user's data unless compelled by a warrant. Technical reasons include an inability to accurately identify copyrighted material that is legally being transferred over p2p clients, and copyrighted material that is being transferred illegally over p2p clients."
You must be new here. Read all about it. Try the first post, +5 Insightful. Care to make any other ridiculous attempts at an indignant response.
Ok Penguinisto, I'll google it for you. How about this story. Wow, look at all the "Insightful" comments. More ISPs should do this... blah blah blah. Hypocrites. The little bit of discussion about privacy that exists there is not in the +5 Interesting comments, it's in the unrated/buried comments. I'd say that's pretty clear evidence that slashdot, in general, is not terribly concerned about privacy when it comes to eliminating spam. Care to add anything to discussion, or simple deny fact after fact as though they didn't exist?