[97766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Thu Jul 5 20:32:01 2007
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:19:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <20070705222812.E6693766064@berkshire.machshav.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134159-c,internetlegalissues/article.html
>
> Note that this is based on their interpretation of EU law.
and a hearty 'good luck' to them... :( I suppose someone could point the
Belgian's over to the Panamanians (who tried to block VoIP, thanks C&W
PTT for that 'fun'). Hurray, more clue- legislation... On the good side I
suppose it's nice to see 'phonographs' being protected along with them new
fangled CeeDees and DeeVeeDees. With a penalty of only 3400 USD/day after
6 months it's going to take a while before it's cost effective to comply
(given a decent DPI solution is still hundreds of thousands of
dollars/gigabit)... Oh, and how does this all work with the 'current' crop
of BitTorrent clients that encrypt all transmissions?
:(
Probably not the end of the interweb, just the end of sanity for some poor
ISP lawyer types in belgium :(
-Chris
