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> Requirements for Internet intermediaries to filter all Internet communications for potentially copyright-infringing material. Each time I read something like
by norswap 14y ago
> Requirements for Internet intermediaries to filter all Internet communications for potentially copyright-infringing material.
Each time I read something like that, I wonder if they really realize the cost needed to achieve efficient filtering.
- bad_user 14y agoThey aren't interested in efficient filtering. Laws such as these are only selectively applied and are meant to give them leverage in negotiations and take-down requests ... after a treaty such as this one gets implemented, a content distributer will not think twice about complying with a DMCA takedown request. And such services will end up paying licensing fees even if all the hosted content is legit, simply because of the risk associated.
- 001sky 14y agoLaws such as these are only selectively applied Laws architected not be obeyed but to abused are totally unacceptable.
- bad_user 14y agoWell, of course. But we end up with such laws because the politicians don't have the technical knowhow do understand the full implications and the lobbyists don't really care as long as it's in their advantage.
- 001sky 14y agoThis has the whiff of a law architected by the lobbyists. The politicians, as you put it, "don't really care as long as it's in their advantage." The pre-meditation is particularly worrisome.
- holloway 14y agoBy increasing ISP liability they're trying to make the business of an ISP inherently risky and unprofitable unless they purchase content licenses. So it's effectively a transfer of wealth from anyone who handles online content to the MPAA/RIAA.
- rhizome 14y agoWhy would the cost matter if the result is only that the entrenched big boys solidify their position thereby?