Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit

timdogg writes "Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers. The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering."

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Re:Probably just for P2P

[Klaus_1250]

I don't particularly care if people do something I don't like. But CP is a difficult matter. Children shouldn't be in porn, not voluntary, not forced. Ever. Period. Where you draw the line as what children are, is something else. 21, 18, 16 are just numbers which were given meaning by people. Whether just watching it should or should not be legal, well, ask the victims. I think you'll get a firm no.

Sidenote: I'm not objective in this matter. I had a pedophile on my paper-route when I was a teen. While "nothing" ever happened, the fact that he regularly opened the door naked touching himself and making indecent proposals left me with a reasonable amount of resentment for Pedophiles.

PS: Why don't Pedophiles just turn to anime/manga? Plenty of genres which have pre-18 R-rated stuff, both explicit and very subtle. No harm to anyone and they have good stories as well.