ethericalzen writes “An article from BBC News online says that ISPs in the UK are resistant to the government’s desires for monitoring their users’ data. The government seeks to have ISPs turn off the access of users who are ‘persistent pirates’. The ISPs are citing technical and legal reasons for why they don’t wish to do this. Legals reasons include surveillance laws which prohibit ISPs from monitoring a user’s data unless compelled by a warrant. Technical reasons include an inability to accurately identify copyrighted material that’s legally being transferred over p2p clients, and copyrighted material that’s being transferred illegally over p2p clients.”
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