GNG News Guy
12-05-2007, 02:41 PM
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AT&T is the first ISP to announce voluntarily plans to put mechanisms in place that will filter pirated material from the company's network. The MPAA's Dan Glickman yesterday insisted that all ISPs will soon be following AT&T's lead, and that it's in their best interest to do so, particularly as they begin getting into the content game. From Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071205-mpaa-head-content-filtering-in-isps-best-interests.html):Glickman also held out the hope that filtering technology would quickly be adopted by many more ISPs. "The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected," he said, "and I think that's a great opportunity."
As we've mentioned repeatedly (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/89255), it's not a "great opportunity" for ISPs. Investors and execs won't like the added costs, customers won't like the restrictions on their p2p use, and it's likely that much of the technology won't work anyway. NBC has said they'd love to see filters not only employed at the ISP level, but also put into home networking gear (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/88103).
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/MPAA-All-ISPs-Should-Employ-Piracy-Filters-89974)
AT&T is the first ISP to announce voluntarily plans to put mechanisms in place that will filter pirated material from the company's network. The MPAA's Dan Glickman yesterday insisted that all ISPs will soon be following AT&T's lead, and that it's in their best interest to do so, particularly as they begin getting into the content game. From Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071205-mpaa-head-content-filtering-in-isps-best-interests.html):Glickman also held out the hope that filtering technology would quickly be adopted by many more ISPs. "The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected," he said, "and I think that's a great opportunity."
As we've mentioned repeatedly (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/89255), it's not a "great opportunity" for ISPs. Investors and execs won't like the added costs, customers won't like the restrictions on their p2p use, and it's likely that much of the technology won't work anyway. NBC has said they'd love to see filters not only employed at the ISP level, but also put into home networking gear (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/88103).
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/MPAA-All-ISPs-Should-Employ-Piracy-Filters-89974)