ISOC did a high level policy paper on DNS filtering. http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/docs/dns-filtering_20110915.pdf
In UK this has been taken to DCMS and others. What more would folk would like to see done locally? Christian Christian de Larrinaga On 2 May 2012, at 08:32, Paul Thornton <p...@prt.org> wrote: > On 02/05/2012 07:05, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> >> On 1 May 2012, at 21:51, "Adrian Kennard"<uk...@e.gg> wrote: >> >>> Oh, I know. But are we enough of a voice to cause sanity to >> >> No because we don't have a voice and our only form of communication is to >> say "that'll never. work" then we shut down other scam sites because clearly >> that works! > > This, I fear, is where as an industry we have shot ourselves in the foot a > bit. There has been a large conflation of technical "that won't work" and > political "are you expecting the post office to open every letter and throw > away ones they don't like?" arguments. The other side isn't much better with > the rights holders claiming that every 14 year old would go out tomorrow and > buy their pirated collection at retail price - but our constant "it can't be > done" is starting to sound hollow. > > And then, as Neil says, we go and successfully filter stuff, or at least > detect it if not block it in some instances with malware etc. > > This is, in a way, like airport (and Olympics) security theatre. The courts > / rights holders / whoever don't care if people can circumvent the block on > TPB or anything else; something has been done and the general population can > see that something has been done. > > Paul. > > -- > Paul Thornton > >
