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AT&T mulls blocking pirate sites
The move is unusual because ISPs traditionally refuse to admit any responsibility for piracy claiming the same rights as the Post Office.
AT&T head of external and legislative affairs Jim Cicconi said that the company would come up with a "network-based" answer to the problem.
Cicconi denied that the ISP would not start blocking web sites used to distribute illegal content, however critics say that systems that involve filtering amount to much the same thing.
Some are pointing out that AT&T has made a fortune from people sending chunks of content down its tubes and it could lead to a wholesale move away from broadband if filtering goes ahead.
Perhaps the real reason is that ISPs are looking at ways of throttling broadband bandwidth. Since P2P pirates use a lot of bandwidth this could save AT&T some space in its tubes.
Of course it could all be a Red Herring. ยต
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The funniest part is that most of the so called Pirate sites load just fine, what does not load though are basic sites, no worries large websites like youtube still work, but AT&T is blocking everything else, esspecialy any sites that discuss how they are blocking everything. As if someone can't just figure out that the forums they visit everyday are now unable to be found, of course if you go and use an alternate internet provider they magicaly come back to life, who could of thunk it.