[IP] more on When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brett Glass <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 26, 2006 12:00:31 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship
From the "techdirt" article:
Broadband Reports points out a press release which says the Culver
City, California, <http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/
77538>will install filters on its muni-Wifi network -- which covers
all of one square mile -- to weed out porn and P2P traffic.
An ISP's viewpoint:
While blocking porn is nearly impossible to do well and legally
questionable under the First Amendment, blocking or at least
mitigating P2P is an essential responsibility of any ISP -- public or
private. Not only is the vast majority of P2P illegal (the amount of
legal activity being so small as to be negligible), but it is, quite
simply, network abuse. Due to the bandwidth hogging behavior which is
built -- by design -- into P2P software, a relatively small number of
P2Pers can render the network unusable for its intended purposes. Any
responsible network provider simply MUST mitigate P2P, both to
prevent theft of intellectual property and to ensure the quality of
service for legitimate users.
--Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET
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