Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing

Chris L. Morrow christopher.morrow at verizonbusiness.com
Fri Jul 6 01:26:46 UTC 2007




On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134159-c,internetlegalissues/article.html
> >>
> >> Note that this is based on their interpretation of EU law.
> >
> > and a hearty 'good luck' to them... :( I suppose someone could point the
> > Belgian's over to the Panamanians (who tried to block VoIP, thanks C&W
> > PTT for that 'fun'). Hurray, more clue- legislation...
>
> Does anyone have an english language translation of the eleven methods
> proposed by the "expert" to implement this order?
>

it'd be interesting, perhaps someone can pry the translation out of a
nanog-belgian-speaker for a beer or 3?

> I don't think it is going to be pratical, especially since the NSA hasn't
> solved the problem of covert channels in decades.  But maybe this "expert"
> has come up with something novel.  Or maybe not.
>
> But I'd like to see what was proposed before passing judgement on it.

sure.



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