Good stuff, WT!
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Originally posted by walktalker
ISPs, record labels on a collision course
A delicate detente is breaking down under pressure from peer-to-peer networks, placing two powerful industries on a collision course that could reshape the legal landscape for online file-swapping. Record companies and movie studios have long turned to Internet service providers for help in their battle against online piracy, but ISPs are beginning to balk at what they see as increasingly onerous demands to step up pressure against online copyright infringement. Last month saw a two-pronged expansion of that strategy, resulting in separate legal skirmishes between the record labels' trade association, Verizon Communications and a handful of large backbone service providers. Internet service providers now say they're increasingly concerned that their hard-won position of neutrality in the copyright wars is being undermined.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-957023.html
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This will be a crucial confrontation, and its outcome will shape the future of p2p in one way or another. If the copyright nazis get any better grip on ISPs p2p will be forced to evolve into more protected forms where the ISPs simply have no way of knowing what their customers are doing with their bandwidth.
- tg
