Premier League joins group lobbying for web blocking
Found on Slightly Right of Centre on Tuesday, 21 June 2011
The group is attempting to influence public policy with a desperate-sounding and confused in places confidential submission to minister for the internets Ed Vaizey, who discussed the proposal at a meeting of stakeholders (including ISPs) last Wednesday.
The eight-page memo makes copious yet unsubstantiated reference to rights and freedoms, yet calls for a court-overseen blocking scheme "speedy enough to deal with urgent time sensitive material (such as live events)".
Does a "focus" on infringement actually include providing copyright-infringing content, or does this also include sites that link to copyrighted content? Techdirt recently reported archive.org and Vimeo were on Universal Music's list of "sites that support piracy".
It would be so nice to have an additional layer between the user and the ISPs, making it impossible for them to see what you are doing online. Basically something like Tor by default. Your ISP would only know that you are online, but not where you are or what you do.