Interview with AT&T on BitTorrent Filtering

An anonymous reader writes "Slyck is running an interview with AT&T's Vice President of Legal Affairs, Jim Cicconi. AT&T discusses the latest in their effort to filter, however one interesting point tends to show they aren't moving anywhere until they discuss this with their customers. "We hear from our customers directly and indirectly. It's a very competitive business, ravenously so. I think our company is very, very sensitive to customer attitude — we have to consider this," Jim Cicconi told Slyck.com."

Re:asdlfkj3214^J!#$K%JEWKRJL^#!$%DJGASDLKTJ

[UbuntuDupe]

You make a valid point, but aren't you overstating the strength of your evidence?

Already a dozen comments...

[daveschroeder]

...in a story where an AT&T executive is asserting it "listens" to its customers, and no wisecracks about NSA wiretapping?

Come on, people, you disappoint me! ;-)

Identifying Pirated Content

[zifn4b]

"We've [internally] tested several systems, and we're going to see if there's a way to identify pirated content on the network. That asks the question of what to do if we develop such as technology. The actual deployment raises a lot of questions, [such as the impact on] customer rights and government policy. We wouldn't proceed without answers to those questions."

Hmm... maybe they could use something similar to this [faqs.org].

And the Singularity is just around the corner

[Ralph Spoilsport]

So, when it happens, all our troubles with bandwidth will be forgotten...

Or, will all this data processing power be squandered on downloading videos of the shaved pudendum of one Britney Spears?

RS

Re:asdlfkj3214^J!#$K%JEWKRJL^#!$%DJGASDLKTJ

[Scutter]

WARNING - - - Cat-like typing detected.

Actually...

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

I posted one, but my ISP filtered the post.

We listen to our customers...

[Damocles the Elder]

..the same way we did opinion polls and studies to show us that our customers wanted to be wiretapped! Honestly. Everyone was emailing us, phoning us, saying that they wanted to be monitored. And who are we to deny our customers?

Re:EDGE

[stinerman]

Yes, the Internet is faster for YOU if no one else does anything other than check their email. In fact, it's faster for everyone if everyone just doesn't use it. Look at all that theoretical capacity!

Re:asdlfkj3214^J!#$K%JEWKRJL^#!$%DJGASDLKTJ

[RadioElectric]

Any cat capable of using the shift key is probably overqualified.

Re:Don't shed a tier for me

[boyko.at.netqos]

I agree with everything except the French-bashing. The French are actually known for trying out new technologies. The Concorde? The Bullet-Train? The Eiffel Tower? The Metric System? The Guillotine?