In a letter to Congressional leaders, the MPAA continues to push for special copyright provisions in a new bill reauthorizing the federal student aid program for college students. Filtering, it seems, can save big money on bandwidth, but colleges remain... ...full story at digg
from digg on Fri, Mar 21 2008
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AT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet? » slashdot Save the Internet writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the MPAA is trying to convince major ISPs to do content filtering. Now, merely wanting it is one thing, but the more important point is that 'AT&T has agreed to start filtering content at some... |
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2008 shaping up to be Year of Internet Filtering » digg Could 2008 be the Year of the Filter? As major ISPs publicly announced plans to start filtering their networks for copyright violations and a Congressional bill pushes colleges to adopt "technology-based deterrents" to file-swapping, filtering could go... |
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MPAA Boss Makes Case for ISP Content Filtering » slashdot creaton writes "At the annual UBS Global & Media Communications Conference yesterday, MPAA boss Dan Glickman banged on the copyright filtering drum during a 45-minute speech. Glickman called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue and told the audience that it... |
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Controversial college funding bill passed, P2P provision too » digg The College Opportunity and Affordability Act has been under fire for requiring schools to make network filtering plans. The House passed it with those provisions in place, despite widespread criticism of the plan and recent revelations that the MPAA had... |
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MPAA head wants deeper relationship (read: content filtering) with ISPs » digg Dan Glickman, head of the MPAA, told a DC gathering yesterday that content filtering at the ISP level isn't just something the studios want... it's in everyone's interest. |
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