Hollywood Teams with AT&T and Others In Possible Packet-Filtering Coalition

Some of you P2P fans may desire to know about a raw concretion call Arts + Labs . It may sound like some kind of open - origin hippie think tank , but it ’s really a powerful alignment of movie and music right of first publication owners ( NBC Universal , Viacom and the Songwriters Guild of America ) and technical school firms and ISPs ( Microsoft , Cisco Systems andAT&T ) . It ’s a group that could put togethera pretty serious anti - plagiarism systemwithout much trouble . Saul Hansell at the NY Times says the group claim that “ web operator must have the flexibility to manage and expand their networks to fight down against net contamination and illegal file trafficking which jeopardize to choke off and delay the connection for all consumers . ” Hansell interprets this as a call to filter packets , and put the kibosh on any dubious transfers . Although the purpose are n’t yet denotative , most of the alinement phallus have openly opposed net disinterest legislation and are in favor of allowing ISPs to have the “ freedom ” to supervise their customer . But Microsoft is a little bit more squirmy on the subject . Thomas C. Rubin , Microsoft ’s primary counsel for intellectual property strategy , enjoin Hansell :

We opine that this is an opportunity to work with leaders across industries to put our head together to discuss the opportunities that exist to facilitate the promotion of the availability of legitimate content on the cyberspace . We are not in favor of filtering at the meshwork level .

Hopefully that is enough of a groin against rearing abuse of power . As the power align , it ’s important for pirates and non - buccaneer alike to keep spotter . Meantime , check out thefull clause . [ NYT ]

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