Arts+Labs, your friendly DPI company
p2pnet news view Freedom | Advertising | P2P:- DPI — deep packet inspection — in its many end various shapes is evil.
Period.
Mounting pressure forced US privacy pirate NebuAd to drop its DPI ad-spy application, “which relentlessly tracks people as they move around the Net,” said p2pnet recently.
But Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy and communications, believes he has the answer, we said in a post yesterday, going on to quote him as declaring:
“Online companies should commit to a list of industry ‘best practices’ to protect consumers from potential problems associated with targeted Internet advertising – also known as behavioral advertising!”
Technology used to, “track and collect consumer online behavior, when they surf the Web, for the purposes of targeted advertising — regardless of what company is doing the collecting — should only be used with the customer’s knowledge and consent in accordance with the law, a company’s specific privacy policies, and the privacy principles,” Tauke said.
“As things stand, the acceptance of targeted, behavioural or any other system designed to collect information on users in any advertising context at all is, as we understand it, still very much open to question,” said p2pnet, adding:
“If Tauke`s idea is adopted, however, would it not firmly establish the concept of ‘customized advertising’ of some kind or other by default, with all that implies?”
A rose by any name ……
Arts+Labs has, “taken on the noble role of ridding the internet of all the nasty bandwidth choking spam, malware, viruses and ‘illegal’ file trafficking. Many have failed before it, but Arts+Labs is confident it has the solution to what plagues us online
“Backed by the likes of RIAA/MPAA loving industries/members such as AT&T, Viacom, NBC Universal, Cisco, and Microsoft, they claim to have our best interests at heart saying this ‘net pollution’, as they call it, is degrading our networks, even though recent media reports show the Internet backbone itself is only taxed at about 20% at the most.”
That’s p2pnet’s Tronix.
Behind Arts+Labs is Mike McCurry, ex-US president Bill Clinton’s ex-press secretary, “looking for a second career after the Clintons,” posts David Reed on dpr |, going on, “Cisco and AT&T are happy to fund him to run a firm to defend ISP’s right to do ‘deep packet inspection’.”
The trouble is, “Arts+Labs doesn’t dare call it DPI, which sounds just a bit scary and Big Brotherish,” says Reed, going on
Instead it’s the “intelligent network” that will, smooth our experience, cleansing it of all those uneven experiences,” he said.
It’s a ‘good thing’
“Those of us who are as old as I am – 56 – might remember that the term ‘Intelligent Network’ was a Bell Labs idea that failed due to the success of the Internet, continues dpr |.
“As David Isenberg told it, the Internet was the ‘Rise of the Stupid Network’.”
The Arts+Labs site looks cool, very Web 2.0′ish, says Reed, but, “hidden in that beautiful design, behind the slick and seductive words, is a dangerous idea, one that the founders of the United States rejected in the First Amendment.
“The Arts+Labs site tries to convince you (and Congress) of the idea that it’s a ‘good thing’ to allow your ISP to decide what you can see or hear or use. That`s the same ISP that is given by Fed, State, or local regulators a monopoly or oligopoly over your ability to connect at high speed to the Internet. For that monopoly to examine your traffic, make guesses as to what it means, and to decide for you which services you should connect to, using what protocols.
“Don`t believe Mike McCurry, AT&T and Cisco’s new shill. He may be connected, but it’s pretty clear that he wants to disconnect us.”
DPI ad-spy application – Nebuad suspends ad-spy technology, September 4, 2008
yesterday – Verizon ‘No DPI’ plan, September 26, 2008
Tronix – Arts+Labs â Net garbage collectors, September 26, 2008
dpr | - ISPs should own your eyes and ears, say AT&T, Cisco, McCurry, September 26, 2008
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September 27th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
If it smells like shit, and looks like shit…
September 27th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Why don’t they just f**koff and die with their deep packet inspection shit. What they really think we don’t know what they are trying to do . Fu**ing retards.
September 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Old media wants a return to broadcast style news, entertainment, and information distribution so that they can continue to have absolute control over what we see and hear. The internet has broken that control. This scares them to death. We can now find out the truth about so many things such as how Gore actually won the election in 2000 and Kerry won in 2004. See the HBO documentary ‘Hacking Democracy’ and another Documentary ‘Uncounted’ for how those elections were stolen.
The truth is out there and you can find it on the internet. Well, you can this week. It certainly isn’t certain how long this will remain true. The corporations have already started to try to convert the internet into a broadcast medium. Peer-to-peer is important if we expect to preserve freedom.
SRG
September 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Wotcha Silly Ratfaced Git:
Please email me at p2pnet @ shaw dot ca.
Cheers! And thanks …
Jon
September 28th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Not only is it seen as the broadcast format of the future but the virtual store as well. Can’t have competition that sells for free. They just can’t see a way to beat that so the order of the day is to find some way to get it gone. They don’t see their stores as being successful as long as p2p is around.