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RIAA: Google/Verizon deal needs yet another gaping loophole

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Plenty of people are worried that the Google/Verizon net neutrality proposal has too many exceptions. The recording industry is worried that it doesn't have enough. In a letter sent today to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the RIAA and other music trade groups expressed their concern that the riddled-with-gaping-loopholes policy framework nevertheless might put a damper on ISP attempts to find and filter piratical material flowing through the Internet's tubes. Failure to allow for this sort of behavior would lead to an Internet of "chaos."

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Comments (4)

Sander_Marechal ·
Is anyone else noticing how the MAFIAA is always associating preventing copyright infringement with preventing distribution of child pornography?
mrider ·
That and terrorists. Apparently we've grown out of burning witches on this side of the pond. (sigh)
jezuch ·
Quoting:Failure to allow for this sort of behavior would lead to an Internet of "chaos."


Yeah. But "Internet of chaos" is precisely what we want.
TxtEdMacs ·
mrider,

Just for a bit of clarification: which side of the pond do you reside? Here we have talk, by supposedly major leaders, where again it could become a spectator sport*.

YBT

* I exaggerate, albeit only slightly.

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