TalkTalk to launch parent-run censor scheme
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Britain’s Carphone Warehouse has joined the ranks of companies and contracted performers determined to help the entertainment cartels gain control of the Internet as their exclusive product distribution system
The operator of the TalkTalk broadband network, Carphone Warehouse is touting a plan which would have parents acting as corporate copyright control cops.
Under it, parents would censor their kids’ online activities with a U, 14 or 18 certificate, or unclassified rating system
Parents “choosing” the U or 14 options, “would be able to block computers in the household from accessing certain filesharing sites such as the Pirate Bay, as well as pornography and gambling, without having to install extra software on the computer,” the Financial Times has Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone stating.
The move would, “help consumers understand a system that blacklists sites that facilitate piracy,” says the story, also quoting Dunstone as declaring:
“This is something that we are going to do anyway, as a service to our customers. But through doing it we can also help the content industry by blacklisting sites that have BitTorrent [a file-sharing technology] files on them.”
“ISPs, which are opposed to disconnection, have been drowned out in the debate about file-sharing this week as the music industry – led by artists such as Lily Allen and Sir Elton John – raised its campaign to protect copyright online,” says the FT.
In direct contrast, “British telecom company BT has come under sharp attack from Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s BPI (British Phornographic Industry),” said p2pnet yesterday.
It’s, “refusing to punish internet pirates who cost the music industry at least £200million a year despite being led to the culprits,” said the Mirror.
“It’s shameful,” BPI mouthperson Geoff Taylor said.
“What do Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys have in common?” – p2pnet also asked yesterday, answering:
“They both used online file sharers to get their careers rolling.
“Then, having gotten to where they wanted to go, cynically went the other way, betraying the online music lovers who put them there, at the same time trying to stop other people from using file sharing as a career kick-start.”
Financial Times – Age ratings plan to fight internet piracy, September 25, 2009
p2pnet – Big Music shill BPI attacks BT over file sharers, September 28, 2009
Lily Allen - Lily Allen disses P2P file sharing, September 17, 2009
Elton John - Elton John joins anti-P2P brigade, , September 23, 2009
Mirror – BPI boss Geoff Taylor blasts ‘apathetic’ BT over music pirates – Exclusive, September 26, 2009
p2pnet – Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys: the bond, September 28, 2009
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September 29th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
“…blacklisting sites that have BitTorrent [a file-sharing technology] files on them.”
this must include Bram Cohen/MPAA/RIAA-owned bittorrent site
called Bittorrent.com. http://www.bittorrent.com/
@anyone in the UK:
make sure talktalk knows about this site and includes it in their blacklist.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
wasnt micro$oft supposed to be rolling out 7 via bittorrent protocols, i thought i read something like that a while back…
September 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
the blacklist should also include google because torrent files can be downloaded directly from any google search page.
September 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
myface, spacebook and twatter must also be included in the blacklist. all of these websites have torrent files.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
What would be *really* useful is substantive technical details of the guts of the thing:
So long as it’s a “black box”, it’ll take a few months (rather than days) for somebody to figure a way around this.
If anybody still actually believes that this kind of thing works, they don’t understand teenagers:
This is just another excuse for tech-savvy teens to hang out at home hacking and cracking, instead of getting laid, or sniffing airplane glue or something.
(It’s also yet *another* example of the insipid, sheep-like, “for the chiiildren” idiocy that makes me genuinely hope for a global pandemic followed by total civilizational collapse. Maybe if we’re all reduced to a “The Day After”-type scenario, parents will FINALLY get it through their thick skulls that trying to ‘protect’ their offspring from ‘controversial’ images or ideas is never a good idea.
Anybody else rooting for Swine Flu?