AT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet?

**radio667** · 09-20-2007, 02:40 PM

from slashdot.org ...... "Ars Technica is reporting that the MPAA is trying to convince major ISPs to do content filtering. Now, merely wanting it is one thing, but the more important point is that 'AT&T has agreed to start filtering content at some mysterious point in the future.' We're left to wonder about the legal implications of that, but given that AT&T already has the ability to wiretap everything for the NSA, it was only a matter of time before they found a way to profit from it, too."

Kel · 09-20-2007, 08:53 PM

Jeez... and I'm debating moving to Chicago.
The only ISP ads I saw during my trip there was for Comcast or AT&T :|

***JohnnySix*** · 09-21-2007, 06:54 AM

Damn.

I'm worried about the equally sinister implications of the Carlyle group in negotiation over a buying up Virgin Media.

09-20-2007, 02:40 PM	#1
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,757 Downloads: 2	AT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet? from slashdot.org ...... "Ars Technica is reporting that the MPAA is trying to convince major ISPs to do content filtering. Now, merely wanting it is one thing, but the more important point is that 'AT&T has agreed to start filtering content at some mysterious point in the future.' We're left to wonder about the legal implications of that, but given that AT&T already has the ability to wiretap everything for the NSA, it was only a matter of time before they found a way to profit from it, too." __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

09-20-2007, 08:53 PM	#2
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