ISPs Should Not Be Policing Web Traffic, Because Privacy Matters!
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on March 16th, 2012
Arstechnica reports that RIAA and ISPs will monitor your web traffic, starting in the second quarter of this year (i.e., 2012). I feel this is a very wrong approach to stop online piracy! Online piracy isn’t terrorism, and so we should not use this draconian measure in an effort to weed out online piracy, because this will make online privacy even worse than how it’s now (i.e., some social networks might be too eager to implement web features that strip away better online privacy). Do I have to worry about my normal web traffic being monitored by ISPs? Of course, normal web traffic has nothing to be worried about being flagged as traffic of pirating contents, but I have the feeling that people might…
Categories: Internet