ISPs Free to Block Content

[The_Unbeliever]

http://www.smoothwall.net/news/newsitem.php?id=1668

UK IT legal specialists Pinsent Masons report that ISPs are free to block content from operators they have no commercial agreements with.

Under UK law the ISP may amend their "fair use" policy as per the original contract, and as long as such restrictions are made clear to current and potential consumers there is no legal issue. Arbitrary filtering by ISPs is not a new issue; when the first round of Microsoft web worms came out many ISPs started blocking traffic on the relevant ports, causing headaches for customers with VPNs that did not encrypt packet headers.

Basically what the new law(s) means is that an ISP can start blocking any sites which's using a lot of bandwidth.

 

[Gatecrasher]

That's interesting, but... that's also an advert.

 

[mercurial]

One day we will have no civil liberties...

 

[medicnick83]

Stupid UK monkeys!

 

[davemc]

Pick your ISP's carefully.

 

[Th0r]

Pick your ISP's carefully.

basically read the fine print..

 

[-toady-]

Pick your ISP's carefully.

Too late.....

 

[remybfg10k]

So mybroadband.co.za might be banned from Iburst/Neotel