依靠ISP反盗版基本没戏

内容产业界反数字化盗版的战斗已经进行了多年，从PC时代到互联网时代，越反越多、越多越反。美国唱片业协会（RIAA）曾经起诉了超过3500个盗版者，结果是不仅效果很差，而且RIAA自己也因此声名狼藉。

随着DPI等技术的发展，内容产业界忽然发现了一个“高招”，并忽悠要立法：让ISP负责此事。理由是此山是你开、此树是你栽，你要人家留下买路钱，当然也要对过路的妖魔鬼怪(盗版信息)负责了。

Google的领导近期也跳出来，说恶意软件的防范，也应该是ISP的工作职责！

但近日www.publicknoledge.org发表白皮书，认为让ISP负责盗版问题于事无补，反而有害。他们总结的主要理由有：

1. Copyright filters are both underinclusive and overinclusive. A copyright filter will fail to identify all unlawful or unwanted content while harming lawful uses of content.

2. Copyright filter processing will add latency. Copyright filters will slow ISP networks, discouraging use, innovation and investment and harming users,businesses and technology policy initiatives.

3. The implementation of copyright filters will result in a technological arms race. Users will act to circumvent the filters and the architects of the filters will find themselves caught in a costly, unwinnable arms race.

4. Copyright filters do not make economic sense. The monetary costs

associated with copyright filtering far outweigh any perceived benefits.

5. Copyright filters will discourage investment in the Internet economy.

Copyright filters will disrupt the Internet ecosystem, severely undermining our

most promising engine for economic growth.

6. Copyright filters will harm free speech. Due to technological limitations,

copyright filters will harm lawful, protected forms of speech such as parody

and satire.

7. Copyright filters could undermine the safe harbor provisions that shield ISPs from liability. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), ISPs are shielded from liability for their users' actions. Copyright filters could

undermine these safe harbors, which have allowed the Internet to become the

most important communications medium of the modern era.

8. Copyright filtering could violate the Electronic Communications and

Privacy Act. Copyright filtering could constitute unlawful interception under

the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act (ECPA).