Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing
Nathan Ward
nanog at daork.net
Fri Jul 6 01:39:16 UTC 2007
On 6/07/2007, at 1:19 PM, 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?
>
> 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.
The PCWorld article mentions some "Audible Magic" solution as one them.
Google finds:
http://www.audiblemagic.com/solutions/isps.asp
Including a product called "CopySense", which has the following
features:
* Log and analyze the P2P load on your network
* Limit P2P traffic to only use an allocated portion of bandwidth
* Filter P2P traffic:
o Block all P2P file transfers, or...
o Block only transfers containing copyrighted content, and/
or...
o Block transfers containing illegal child pornography,
and/or...
o Block transfers containing other pornographic or
offensive content
* Filter WWW traffic:
o Block known malicious websites, and/or...
o Block illegal sites containing child pornography, and/or...
o Block other pornographic or offensive sites
I wonder if they did a proof of concept at all, or if they just read
the glossies..
--
Nathan Ward
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