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Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers


A central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) and this blog is that the copyright industry is never satisfied. Now matter how long the term of copyright, publishers a…

Even more worryingly, the approach has led to blocks being implemented in some key parts of the Internet’s infrastructure that have no involvement with the material that flows through them: they are just a pipe. In an interview with Tele.Sintese, outgoing Anatel board member Artur Coimbra recalls the lack of internet infrastructure in Brazil as recently as 2010. For Anatel today, blocking access to pirate websites and preventing unauthorized devices from communicating online is all in a day’s work.

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