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This one will be short and blunt, as I work my Coffee (Friday, and we Kicked ASS @ Nyzul Isle last night in FFXI) :P

 

ISP Data Cops

 

On the slim here, Congress passed some legislation to make a copyright Czar, shortly after this, and the previous bans to usenet, the following is in the works.

 

One new tool, being marketed in the U.S. by an Australian company, offers to check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.

 

Here is where the Child porn defense falls apart:

That actual knowledge could be handed to the Internet companies by technologies like the one proposed by the Australian company, Brilliant Digital Entertainment Ltd. Known as CopyRouter, the software would let ISPs compare computer files — movies, photographs and documents — against those lists. Banned files would be blocked, and the requestor would receive a substitute file provided by law enforcement, such as a warning message: "The material you have attempted to access has been identified as child pornography." The attempt to send or receive the file could then be reported to law enforcement, along with the Internet Protocol address of the requestor.

 

So EVERYTHING can and will be scanned? Let's talk about good intentions completely blowing up in our faces. Instead of making the Gov't and ISP's protect children from Online Predators, they want to make a Data Honeypot.

 

Let's look @ our friends on the EU side of things, and take a count of Data Loss they have had. Yes, storing Data @ the ISP? This is a bad idea.