January 11, 2008

ATT and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter

At a small panel discussion about digital piracy at NBC’s booth on the Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and the telecom giant ATT said the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level. “What we are already doing to address piracy hasn’t been working. There’s no secret there,” said James Cicconi, senior vice president, external & legal affairs for ATT. (NY Times)