Australia's Internet filtering too ambitious, doomed to fail

[Thankful]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081205-australias-internet-filtering-too-ambitious-doomed-to-fail.html

[KookyMan]

They'll still do it. If I had a nickel for every time a gov't did something that was doomed to fail (and does) I'd not have to have my crappy job.

[HURST]

-{ Quote: "THE Federal Government's controversial internet censorship scheme may extend to filter more online traffic than was first thought, Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy revealed today.
In a post on his department's blog, Senator Conroy today said technology that could filter data sent directly between computers would be tested as part of the upcoming live filtering trial.

"Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial," Senator Conroy said.

Peer-to-peer file-sharing technology is the most common way for computer users to share video, picture and music files over the internet.

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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24833959-5014239,00.html

[dw426]

You may want to stop taking all this lightly folks, even if Australia's method falls on its face, you're looking at the future of the Internet. It solves too many big problems for governments, ISPs, the recording industries, everybody, not to do everything they can to make it work.

P.S, the above statement and opinion is not based solely on politics, though of course politics is in everything. There are many, many technical reasons too, bandwidth abuse being a huge one.