Comments on: ISP Gives Customers The Power To Ban BitTorrent

By: Hom3r

Hom3r — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:52:27 +0000

do not want.

By: Khaddow

Khaddow — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:03:12 +0000

Yes Talk Talk is in danger of losing their common carrier status, but unfortunately that is going to happen here in the UK anyway. Lord Mandy is already looking at pushing through a three strikes law. To me this looks like Talk Talk pre-empting these new laws.

By: z

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:11:09 +0000

a very good idea, naturally all depends how will be executed

Ownners of the internet connection, people who are paying for it should have full control on it. These people are mostly not advanced in IT, so they will not block stuff on a router i.e.

It could be useful if we are i.e. renting room to someone, or do not want to be liable for someone other activity

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:29:30 +0000

Yes, it’s voluntary – for now… but it sounds like the slippery slope to censorship for all.
As Talk Talk own the UK arm of Tiscali they are now the UK’s largest ISP so this is quite a worrying president.
The real reason is that P2P accounts for a large percentage of ISPs’ traffic so if the ISP can cut this out it means increased profits and more cash for Dunstone.

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By: billy bob

billy bob — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:42:16 +0000

And – I know it’s voluntary before someone jumps on me about it – but it’s still ridiculous that the ISP has to provide a filter in the first place – and that parents can’t simply teach their own damned kids what’s right and wrong and what’s legal or illegal. Basically the parents (and adults) should be filtering themselves.

By: billy bob

billy bob — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:38:35 +0000

This is one of the more stupid things I’ve come across.

Gee – grown adults can’t handle either controlling themselves or reprimanding their own kids – so lets get some other entity be it the governement or the ISP to do it for us.

Parents – get off your lazy freakin’ asses and pay attention to what the hell your kids are doing on the internet. It’s not that difficult.

By: Mr. Briggs

Mr. Briggs — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:20:06 +0000

@85 (SectorX4):

This helps to undermine confidence in the filter and will probably lead to it being discontinued…

…thus re-invalidating the defense that you would like to use.

By: SectorX4

SectorX4 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:39:18 +0000

To me this would be a legal defense.

Example:

You sign up for this ISP, turn on the bit torrent filter, circumvent the filter easily and then if you’re caught use the defense that you were using the filter so how could you have possibly been using it.

This helps to undermine confidence in the filter and will probably lead to it being discontinued.