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In response to net neutrality debate veers off on copyright tangent

Wow. Talk about a double standard. Content providers, some of whom are very opposed to broadband access providers throttling and prioritizing their traffic, actually want broadband access providers to play post office by inspecting traffic for copyright infringement? Can we really have it both ways?

Well. Maybe. Depending on whether the Federal Communications Commission gets its way on net neutrality. If the three Democrats on the FCC can get Congress to amend the Communications Act so that broadband access providers are defined as telecommunications companies, the law may just lend that type of activity some support.

I base this conclusion on Sec. 222(d)(2) of the Communications Act. A telecommunications carrier can use, disclose, or permit access to customer proprietary network information obtained directly or indirectly from consumers to” protect the rights or property of the carrier, or to protect users of those services, and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of, or subscription to, such services.

We don’t want you to ration our traffic, content providers will say, but we want you to read everybody else’s content and we are willing to see you classified as a telecommunications carrier so that you can do it and protect our intellectual property.

So much for the net neutrality posse’s “concerns” for the civil rights of the masses.

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