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Originally Posted by bigluv
Holy shit you guys. You really want your ISP's to be the new TSA feeling up your internet traffic? Talk about a police state. There was not enough detail in that article to really inform about the technical aspects of this, however I can tell you just from how it sounds it's a bloody circus and is completely poorly conceived. This will never work, and there's tonnes of confidential and private info that would be caught and possibly exposed when one starts monitoring someone's traffic. This is a nightmare waiting to happen. And mainly for the ISP's and rights holders.
There's also virtually no way to police this from the perspective that they are trying to approach it. The monitoring companies are notoriously fly by night, with tonnes of false positives and just wrong information, and ISP's are going to start snooping people's traffic on that kind of say so? What a nightmare.
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I don't think it's a matter of "wanting it.". It's the case that they are monitoring and under current laws they have the authority and in some cases are required to monitor/log. It's reality. Whether copyright holders participate or not is up to them, but by not participating it's not going to change what the reality is.
I feel like the internet generation is in Kindergarten and everyone was happy with their internet privileges being free and private, but it just takes a few "bad apples" to ruin it for everyone. The only people to blame for the crack downs on internet privacy are the "bad apples" in my opinion. And, if the "bad apples" continue, it's going to reduce internet freedoms even more...