Verizon Turns Down Hollywood
2008-02-07 19:26:44 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
More often than not companies in similar positions have similar views. But when Hollywood asked the two big phone companies to help with its fight against piracy, they responded in opposite ways. AT&T, as we wrote, is talking about developing a system that would identify and block illicitly copied material being sent over its broadband network.
Verizon, however, opposes the concept. Tom Tauke, Verizon’s executive vice president for public affairs, said the company’s view combines a concern for the privacy of its customers with self interest. It may be costly for it to get into the business of policing the traffic on its network. Indeed, phone companies have largely spent a century trying not to be liable for what people say over their lines.
“We generally are reluctant to get into the business of examining content that flows across our networks and taking some action as a result of that content,” he said. [by Saul Hansell, New York Times]
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