The MPAA and RIAA want ISPs to police their traffic for pirated material. Others wants them to police for child porn. Now this. When are phone companies going to be held liable for chuckleheads drunk dialing when I sleep? When are cable companies going to be held liable for allowing stations to up the volume on commercials or playing bad shows? This is just idiotic, irresponsible, pointless lawmaking on so many levels.
The House Financial Services Committee has approved a bill, the Investor Protection Act, which requires to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block any traffic on their networks which fraudulently invokes the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Failure to do so will make the ISPs subject to court injunctions and liable for any damages that result from the fraud.
The SIPC’s job is to protect investor assets when a brokerage firm fails. The committee found that fraudulent actors on the Internet and elsewhere sometimes represent themselves as legitimate.
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Note that the rules include any data simply routed through the network. This amounts to a requirement that all data on the network be subject to deep packet inspection and contextual analysis. This is an enormous, potentially crippling burden for ISPs, both large and small. Even if representations are found that someone represents the SIPC, it’s not clear how the ISP is supposed to determine if it’s fraudulent. And the bill doesn’t appear to make any allowances for data encryption, which would probably make the ISPs duties impossible to implement.
#18
I tried remaining honest like you. Now I just steal everything that is not easier to get free.
not until they can pass materiel goods via 0′s and 1′s
No they are only a bridge to provide the content. ISP’s should not be forced to be the moderator. As with any service like the elctric company. Should they tell you what type of bulbs to use or when to turn your lights on? Should the phone companies monitor and bleep out foul language? Two places content can be controlled. From the source and at the receiver. These are easily done and very effective.
ANY web user can download anti-spam – hell, it’s even plugged on Dvorak.blog.
So. Why on earth don’t ISPs use anti-spam (at source) to kill all this crap that annoys?
Spam could have been stopped YEARS AGO!. But, they still won’t do anything to kill it.
I know I’m dim, but why?
#24: true, but this isn’t about spam.
24,25,
YES THEY COULD HAVE FIXED the way EMAIL is handled and routed in the net to make SPAM difficult..
This article is about FORCING the ISP to monitor your Downloads and location, so that you DONT download MOVIES/MUSIC/PORN, WHICH is almost impossible. Unless you want someone to SIT and decrypt EVERY BIT of every picture and DL, to verify its not against the law. And dont forget about monitoring EACH person and logging EVERY site you hit on the net.
The paper work alone would be astounding.
Congress can pass laws even when it knows nothing about what it is supposed to be controlling. Every bill passed this year proves it.
#27, doill,
You make a good, if inaccurate point.
Anyone can complain about something they know nothing about. Your posting history bears that out.