| Interesting:paper concludes ISPs in best position to monitor The investigation by the team that wrote the paper concludes that the best way to monitor infringers is thru the ISPs participation.
»dmca.cs.washington.edu/uwcse_dmca_tr.pdf
The risk of exposing monitoring agents: A major
challenge for enforcement agencies is coverage; i.e.,
identifying all infringing users.
Given these challenges, recent calls from industry
to enlist ISPs directly in enforcement are unsurprising
[6]. Since ISPs do not need to participate in P2P
networks to monitor user behavior, there are no apparent
monitoring agents to block. So while the paper says current methods of DMCA notification COULD have errors and gives aid to those fighting those trying to catch music & movie thieves, the paper also gives aid to the **AAs in their efforts to lobby Congress to force ISPs to monitor user activity.
And people wonder why the RIAA & MPAA are trying to get laws passed making ISPs monitor users P2P activities as well as all online activities.
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| That's not how I read it.
It said that Industry lobbying ISP's to monitor is not surprising, but said that ISP monitoring would be necessary to *protect* the users from bogus DMCA takedowns.... not ISP's need to help enforce them....
That's the way I read it anyway.
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