The New York Times is reporting today that "several representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and telecom giant AT&T said the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level" the report came from a panel discussion at CES 2008. James Cicconi, senior vice president, external & legal affairs for AT&T reported in the story that “What we are already doing to address piracy hasn’t been working. There’s no secret there.” Really! -well I know from experience that most ISPs are no good at preventing a DDoS attack either, so why don't you get your people to start there, and once you've conquered that, you can try the music thing. ISP's are unable or unwilling to take any measures to prevent Botnets form running on their network or computers on their network from sending spam or DDoS attacks, but they are interested in preventing the downloads of music. I guess there is just not enough money, or the possibility of increasing their bandwidth to worry about truly malicious traffic on their links. Either of these prospects would be almost impossible to architect on a scale that the backbone operators run at, and I would definitely not want to be the person managing the false positives for either. The music industry is changing, and the old delivery methods will someday be a thing of the past. the music industry and the ISP's that will be the delivery method of the content need to come up with a less Draconian means of meeting the needs of their customers besides capturing their traffic and deciding if it's "OK". What's next, banning nude pictures, banning executables that may or may not be pirated software. The Internet Police will pull you over "OK Mr. Comedian, do you have a key for that version of Word".
One more note - encryption will take care of any filtering they are planning to use, or are they planning on banning that too?
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