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Re: Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing

  • From: Chris L. Morrow
  • Date: Thu Jul 05 20:34:28 2007 

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134159-c,internetlegalissues/article.html
>
> Note that this is based on their interpretation of EU law.

and a hearty 'good luck' to them... :( I suppose someone could point the
Belgian's over to the Panamanians (who tried to block VoIP, thanks C&W
PTT for that 'fun'). Hurray, more clue- legislation... On the good side I
suppose it's nice to see 'phonographs' being protected along with them new
fangled CeeDees and DeeVeeDees. With a penalty of only 3400 USD/day after
6 months it's going to take a while before it's cost effective to comply
(given a decent DPI solution is still hundreds of thousands of
dollars/gigabit)... Oh, and how does this all work with the 'current' crop
of BitTorrent clients that encrypt all transmissions?

:(

Probably not the end of the interweb, just the end of sanity for some poor
ISP lawyer types in belgium :(

-Chris