Found on A Fistfull of Euros. The French recently had a really bad idea:
The so-called "3 strikes" law foresaw that ISPs would be required to cut off service to anyone who was found downloading or distributing copyrighted material three times - which of course implied that the ISPs would be expected to filter all traffic by content, a wildly grandiose, authoritarian, and insecure idea.
Oh, those evil pro-Europe anti-Liberty French. Fortunately the idea failed. But what is this:
But the legislation failed in France; so here it is, coming straight back via the European Parliament. The odd bit, though, seeing as it's a French idea chiefly backed by the EPP (=European Conservative group), is that it's being pushed by the British Tories in Brussels - half of whom don't believe there even should be a European Parliament.
Will we here something about this in the Telegraph? I doubt it.
which of course implied that the ISPs would be expected to filter all traffic by content, a wildly grandiose, authoritarian, and insecure idea.
In actual fact I don't see quite how its implied that ISPs are going to have to do the filtering mentioned. I think that's a possibility once the precedent that ISPs will store then necessary logs for the time period has been set, that at some point in the future the content providers will attempt to palm off the investigation role to the ISPs. However the ISPs will resist that mightily, as it will push their costs in hardware and staff up considerably and why should they pay for the content providers problem? plus that assumes that someone wont come up with a technological/philosophical bypass to the scanning methodology that is currently in use. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
