[108299] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Filtering Lobby ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Fri Sep 26 11:42:36 2008
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:42:19 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <EAAD2896-8FC2-4E87-9770-E55491335F5C@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:04:59AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> Does anyone know what this group is really about and how it might
> actually impact real networks ?
I think Mike Masnick (over at TechDirt) has this nailed:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080925/0216422370.shtml
Quoting in part:
To begin with, the group appears to be positioning "piracy"
as something similar to "viruses" or "spam," suggesting an
equivalency that should lead to widespread use of filtering
equipment. Of course, they seem to be missing the fact that
piracy isn't about others with nefarious intent trying to harm
or scam you -- but about people getting content that they
want. But in Mike McCurry's "up is down, down is up" world,
piracy is apparently something that consumers themselves need
to be protected from:
---Rsk
