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FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering

Posted by kdawson on from the by-some-definition-of-"effective" dept.

snydeq writes "Ars Technica's Nate Anderson and InfoWorld's Paul Venezia provide worthwhile commentary on a recent speech by FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate (PDF), in which she praised DRM as 'very effective' and raised a flag in favor of ISP filtering. Anderson: 'Having commissioners who feel that the government has a duty to partner with and back educational classroom content from the RIAA; who really believe that ISP filtering is so unproblematic we can stop considering objections; and who think that universities worry about file-swapping because tuition might be raised to pay for the needed "expansion of storage capabilities" (huh?) isn't good for the FCC and isn't good for America.' Venezia: 'Leave the ISPs out of it — it's not their job to protect a failing business model, and a movement toward a tiered and filtered Internet will do nothing to stem the tide of piracy, but will result in great restrictions on innovation, freedoms, and the general use of the Internet. There's nothing to be gained down that path other than possibly to expand the wallets of a few companies.'"

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  1. wish for bush now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MAkes you wish for bush eh? Obamma was supposed to be so enpivbtened eh? Wake up call..

  2. Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The story is tagged with bitch and whore, but not cunt? Wake up, Slashdot!