Final push from BT for a review of the DEA!

[opethdisciple]

Sounds serious.

Hopefully they are successfull!

 

[robgmun]

Respect to BT! Maybe they're not all bad after all...

 

[andy_mk3]

Respect to BT! Maybe they're not all bad after all...

They only want to stop it so that people who do download will buy their unlimited packages

 

[RomanNose]

DEA sucks, was pretty much pushed through by US media lobbyists. We were probably blackmailed like Spain was, would not be suprised if Europe completly bans all web censorship effectively making this law null.

 

[LordSplodge]

DEA sucks, was pretty much pushed through by US media lobbyists. We were probably blackmailed like Spain was, would not be suprised if Europe completly bans all web censorship effectively making this law null.

I'm hoping so as the EU has to be good for something. Germany has ruled that IP Adresses are personal data (and thus protected) so there is hope.

Hopefully all this SOPA/PIPA crap in America is sorted out as well. Governments need to realise the masses will no longer be curtailed, the Djinni is out of the bottle now.

 

[RomanNose]

I'm hoping so as the EU has to be good for something. Germany has ruled that IP Adresses are personal data (and thus protected) so there is hope.

Hopefully all this SOPA/PIPA crap in America is sorted out as well. Governments need to realise the masses will no longer be curtailed, the Djinni is out of the bottle now.

I imagine Europe will take care of this matter, they have already declared that theyh are against SOPA/PIPA. So I can imagine that if we do start blocking domains, Europe will step in.

 

[anything I don't mind]

If bt is our last hope then we are doomed for sure.

This is merely BT going through the motions and is far from challenging the legislation, if anything they are giving it credibility. BT is about as far away from a consumer focused ISP as you can get. If BT have a problem with legislation like this it is for one reason and for one reason only, their own liability.

 

[derfderfley]

<SNIP> If BT have a problem with legislation like this it is for one reason and for one reason only, their own liability.

Actually I believe BT's main concern with this is cost, it's going to be very expensive for BT (and all large ISP's) to police this, both in costs of manpower and equipment.
I expect some of the smaller ISP's to go to the wall, if (and when) they start pushing them to implement blocks.
Lets face it, it's not going to stay at the DNS level for very long, and deep packet inspection doesn't come cheap when your dealing with ten's of GB of traffic in real time.