AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content 436
An anonymous reader writes "The LA Times reports that AT&T has announced plans to work with the Hollywood movie studios and major recording labels to implement new content filtering systems on their network. The plans raise many troubling legal issues including privacy concerns, false positive filtering, and liability for failure to filter."
Future News: The News... of the future! (Score:1, Funny)
Today, a group of hackers calling themselves "The Army of the Night" have announced that they've defeated AT&Ts recently announced content filtering scheme.
They needed a new use for the NSA gear (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So much for my business (Score:5, Funny)
Talk about a choice between Giant Douchebag and Turd Sandwich...
Re:Ouch. (Score:5, Funny)
So I'd better make other plans (Score:5, Funny)
I'm guessing they're not going to like a file transfer of casablanca.mov
Try Again (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SSL For All My Friends! (Score:5, Funny)
We're almost convinced, but I think we need a few more random bold tags before it can happen...
Re:Ouch. (Score:2, Funny)
New Sourceforge project for AT&T content filte (Score:2, Funny)
Glad to see the US ISPs joining the ranks of Chinese ISP
Re:Dinosaur Managers: Please Retire! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ouch. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SSL For All My Friends! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Communications Decency Act Section 230 (Score:3, Funny)
Silly wabbit, PIX are for kids! Seriously, though, no one uses them. My company buys millions upon millions of dollars of Cisco gear per year and zero PIXes. They're kinda sucky. Just FYI.