Thursday, January 17, 2008

ATT Wants to Filter the Whole Internet

Much has been made of ATT's recent announcement that it may work with content owners to filter the entire Internet for copyright infringement. Even though the EFF and American University have shown that technology is not a good way to enforce copyright, ATT thinks that it can support the broken business models of the RIAA, et al through technological methods.

Tim Wu, professor of law at Columbia University has a lucid article on Slate explaining why this may be economic and legal suicide for ATT. Check it out.