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UK ISP Calls Bono’s Anti-P2P Rant “Outrageous”
Talk Talk says U2 frontman is “seriously misguided,” that P2P doesn’t earn ISPs any additional income, that it’s outrageous to equate illegal file-sharing with child pornography, and that any anti-P2P efforts can easily be circumvented. Earlier this week I mentioned U2 frontman Bono’s Ten for the Next Ten , ten ideas that “might make the next 10 years more interesting, healthy or civil, op-ed in the NY Times. In it he made some startling claims, one of which is that we we need ISP-level content filtering, mocking their “dumb pipe” defense.
Continue reading »Streaming Video Sites Should Be Blocked, Says Movie Producer
Another movie producer with another brilliant idea on how to thwart online piracy! At a conference organized by the German anti-piracy organization GVU, Max Wiedemann voiced his theory about eradicating piracy – having ISPs block access to streaming video sites that offer unlicensed full-length feature movies. According to the German film producer sites like Kino.to should be banned. Over the last year Germany offered ground for experimenting similar methods of blocking access to websites and with book publishers’ pressure for popular hosting services like Rapidshare to be shut down, industries join forces in an ever-increasing censorship.
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