2008 shaping up to be "Year of Filters" at colleges, ISPs
Date : 01 15 2008 Category : Technology
Ars TechnicaCould 2008 be the Year of the Filter? As major ISPs publicly announced plans to start filtering their networks for copyright violations and a Congressional bill pushes colleges to adopt "technology-based deterrents" to file-swapping, filtering could go mainstream this year. It could also backfire spectacularly.