Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing

Fri Jul 6 01:26:07 UTC 2007

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Joe Maimon wrote:
> It is actually fairly easy, just restandardize the Evil bit as the
> Illegal Bit.
>
> All network transfers of illegal content must set the Illegal bit and
> all Belgian ISP's must drop packets with the Illegal bit set.
>
> Problem solved.

I'd bet there are penalties if content is transferred though :( so,
relying on the 'illegal content users/sharers' to 'do the right thing'
isn't likely to get you where you want to be... :(