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Wow - this agreement has been in effect for a year? TL;DR: The delay in implementation has been bureaucratic. To quote Ars: ""The system" according to Torrent
by dreadsword 15y ago
Wow - this agreement has been in effect for a year? TL;DR: The delay in implementation has been bureaucratic.
To quote Ars:
""The system" according to Torrent Freak, involves major labels monitoring BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks for copyright infringement, and then reporting that infringement to ISPs, who will monitor their networks for the transgressors."
I know labels and so on monitor networks in a variety of ways, but ISPs folding and given entertainment co's an open window into customer identity and raw traffic seems like unhealthy collusion.
Shouldn't this come into conflict with various privacy legislation?
- wmf 15y agoISPs giving entertainment co's an open window into customer identity and raw traffic Good thing they're not doing that.
- dreadsword 15y agoIn the past, I understand entertainment co's have identified transgressors from looking at the IPs that are making movies available for download, for instance, and then subpoena-ing account holder info for that IP from the ISP. Or similarly, finding the IP that a torrent is being served from, or whatever. What I read from Ars is that now entertainment co's will have some means of "...monitoring BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks" that bypasses the steps required today. What's that mechanism? And whatever it is, is there anyway that a giving entertainment co's a means of monitoring ISPs customers isn't corrosive to privacy?
- wmf 15y agoThey're doing the same kind of monitoring they used to do. It might be better, because now I think they're required to document how their monitoring works and (supposedly) independent experts can comment on the accuracy of these systems.