[104441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed May 14 18:32:37 2008
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:30:42 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Jake Matthews <jmatthews@cia.com>
In-Reply-To: <482B575E.9080002@cia.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20461817-HSI-Charter-to-monitor-surfing-insert-its-own-targeted-ads
>
This is definitely taking the position that its "their" pipe and not the
*Internet*. I can only imagine the issues that will get wrangled around
in the courts over this. (ahem, Google, ahem).
This is not fundamentally different than a TV station digitally
inserting their own ads on the stadium instead of whatever is there you
might see in person. This *seems* like a problem because most people
only have 1 connectivity provider at a time and often few options around it.
Regulation could address this, a differentiated service could address
this, but this smacks of paying for a service to then get additional ads
sent to you. (like everytime you dialed a number into your Skype for
Pizza Delivery, they sent you to their paid-Pizza Delivery provider
instead).
Depending on how invasive (or effective) this gets, it has wild
common-carrier implications.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
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