http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/ Engadget Comments for AT&T, Microsoft, NBC working on solutions to filter copyrighted material at the ISP level http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 11th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/]]>Jan 9th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/
"Whatever we do has to pass muster with consumers and with policy standards. There is going to be a spotlight on it," he said.

it's called "all of your customers switching to an unfiltered provider."




damn straight fool!

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ATT isn't in my area so it won't affect me, but screw censorship like this. I don't think they could ever effectively pull this off either. There's always going to be people who know encryption better that they do.]]>Jan 9th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/

However, seeing as they are the only internet provider available in STL, I don't guess there is much I can do about it.


(ATT not offered in my hood.)]]>Jan 9th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/
I thought they were just a wireless provider at this point. (aka the former Cingular.) Or is this the former SBC?

I suppose this might be possible to do without losing 100% of your customers in an area where there's no other choice. In my area, though, I can choose between Verizon, Cablevision, Earthlink and numerous other providers. Whoever filters content will be crossed off my list faster than you can say "corporate jack-whores".
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I thought they were just a wireless provider at this point. (aka the former Cingular.) Or is this the former SBC?

I suppose this might be possible to do without losing 100% of your customers in an area where there's no other choice. In my area, though, I can choose between Verizon, Cablevision, Earthlink and numerous other providers. Whoever filters content will be crossed off my list faster than you can say "corporate jack-whores".
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As an engineer I can only imagine this would be a gigantic pain in the ass for no real monetary benefits.]]>Jan 9th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/- DRMed music/video (which is often useless to copy anyway)
-TCP packets based on protocol (torrents)

You can encode, rip, render all other things and name them at will, so how would it be filtered? Is every audio/video going to have digital watermarks to trigger the filter?

Also, if people encrypt files, the only way to filter would be to filter by protocol (aka Comcast way).

I do not advocate anything, I am just saying I doubt the system will be effective and I think many false positives will be triggered by it.
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http://monolith.sourceforge.net/]]>Jan 9th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/
google Ron Paul

...and then vote for someone else. ZING!]]>Jan 9th 2008 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Isn't that pretty obvious ? What else would constitute the bulk of the P2P traffic, home videos, yeah right ...
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Firstly, there are applications that use the BitTorrent protocol 100% legally, their users will face trouble.

Secondly, as soon as BitTorrent is blocked, a new and better protocol will be developed just in a few days, and will become popular in a few months. Developers of this new protocol WILL (obviously) know how BitTorrent has lost its popularity due to the block of the protocol so it will be developed to be even harder to block. Yes, technically it may be blocked but people have creativity, the ones who write protocols have more. This will result in a more "powerful" and "hard-to-block" protocol because probably someone will think something that most (if not all) of us (Internet community) did not think, and implement "that" thing in the protocol, and with a good advertising strategy, making it the most popular protocol up to date.

Blocking protocols is, NOT, an option.]]>Jan 9th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 9th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/
And still, China's users have figured out ways around it. THE PEOPLE WILL NEVER REST! HUZZAH!]]>Jan 9th 2008 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/atandt-microsoft-nbc-working-on-solutions-to-filter-copyrighted/Jan 11th 2008 3:57PM