| Piracy Filters in Home Networking Hardware I could support that, but on one condition: The user would be able to turn the Piracy Filter on or off. So a parent who wants to make sure his kid won't share music via P2P can turn it on, but someone who doesn't care about the legal risks of share music via P2P* can turn it off.
I'm talking about sharing copyrighted songs without the copyright owners approval, of course. Sharing Public Domain songs or songs for which the content owner has granted permission to share are just fine.
And in the end, this is where a piracy filter will fail. There is no filter written that can know exactly what permissions have or have not been granted by the copyright owner of that incoming MP3 file, movie file, etc. Filters will either be completely ineffective (not blocking obvious avenues of piracy) or will have too many false positives.
So if someone wants to put their trust in a piracy filter, that's fine by me. I just don't want my Internet Connection being routed through someone else's idea of what constitutes piracy and what doesn't (especially of that someone is a big content provider with a motive to make things difficult for smaller, legitimate content providers).
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-Jason Levine
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