I meant to write about this earlier - but a post in TechCrunch yesterday about AT&T May Censor Copyrighted Materials At The ISP Level brings up many disturbing issues - and if this is in our future we need to be sure we don't let it happen or let it go too far, if we have any choice in the matter.
"...what you download online in the United States could soon be monitored and blocked (presuming it breaches copyright) if new plans by AT&T are implemented."
The story came from a New York Times Blog: AT&T and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter
"...“The volume of peer-to-peer traffic online, dominated by copyrighted materials, is overwhelming. That clearly should not be an acceptable, continuing status,” he said. “The question is how we collectively collaborate to address this.”
The outcry seems to be over the ability of ISP's to cut our much of the P2P file sharing that has copyright materials thereby gaining 40-50% increase in their bandwidth.
Of course, it was also pointed out a lot of "spam" that people get in their emails will not be blocked while much of the material they do care about will be blocked, in some manner or another.
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