MPAA To US ISP's - Stealing From Customers Works For Us Why Not you ?

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I have been a bit loose with the title but it surely is fair to state that the MPAA say its ok to steal from customers by denying them the use of bandwidth that they are paying for.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080328-mpaa-hopes-to-unclog-the-tubes-verizon-wants-no-plumber.html

At the Tech Policy Summit in Los Angeles, MPAA CTO Jim Williams called on ISPs to install filters in their pipes, arguing that it was in their own best interest. Furthermore, Williams said that ISPs ought to start filtering content not just to please the movie studios, but for their own bottom lines. Filtering will "unclog the Internet," Williams said, and eliminate "a bunch of freeriders that are hogging bandwidth."

Williams' comments came in the wake of comments from Verizon CTO Richard Lynch, who admitted that the ISP does use a blacklist to stop access to child porn sites. Williams seized on that point. If Verizon truly isn't willing to police the Internet, why will it blacklist certain sites? Copyright concerns and child porn aren't quite on the same level, but Verizon's willingness to control access to certain kinds of content predictably leads others with content concerns to demand a similar sort of treatment.

If the MPAA where as responsible as they ask others to be how is it that they dont report all those sharing child porn to the authorities that they come across in their dragnet ?

This makes a fine contrast to their stand on something they wish to monetise and seem to care not how that is acheived, after all which is the more valuable commodity, free speech or some b rate movie offering ?

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I still dont understand how they expect ISPs to filter file transfers, if its a case of simply asking ISP's to block BT indexing sites, well, why should they block them if there is no illegal content being stored at those locations? How would this action prevent other p2p traffic? I wonder if the MPAA has asked MS and Yahoo to "filter" file transfers taking place via their message servers? I wonder has the MPAA asked all postal and courier services to open all the mail and check for CD's and other devices that could be used to send files?

Looks to me like the same old tired demands, YAWN move on MPAA your boring us