Wednesday, February 6, 2008

ISPs on Filtering

According to the New York Times Bits blog, Verizon Rejects Hollywood’s Call to Aid Piracy Fight. While AT&T was looking to work with copyright complainants to filter network traffic, Verizon expressed concern that voluntary filtering would lead to pressure to filter more and might lose the benefits of the DMCA safe-harbor.

Across the ocean, music companies represented by the International Federation of Phonographic Industries have sued Chinese search portal Baidu.

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