NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Comcast's "Evil Bot" Scanning Project(Lauren Weinstein)
A committee of UK parliamentarians (The All Party Parliamentary Communications Group (apComms)) recently issued a report on some issues of network regulation including Bot scanning. Here are two of their recommendations: 51. We recommend that UK ISPs, through Ofcom, ISPA or another appropriate organisation, immediately start the process of agreeing a voluntary code for detection of, and effective dealing with, malware infected machines in the UK. 52. If this voluntary approach fails to yield results in a timely manner, then we further recommend that Ofcom unilaterally create such a code, and impose it upon the UK ISP industry on a statutory basis. For context, here are two of their other recommendations. I suspect that many will enjoy the content and exposition of recommendation 58. 58. We conclude that much of the problem with illegal sharing of copyrighted material has been caused by the rightsholders, and the music industry in particular, being far too slow in getting their act together and making popular legal alternatives available. 59. We do not believe that disconnecting end users is in the slightest bit consistent with policies that attempt to promote eGovernment, and we recommend that this approach to dealing with illegal file-sharing should not be further considered. The report can be found at http://www.apcomms.org.uk/ And, some discussion at http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/ Chuck Jackson