Labs) to enable users to analyze the traffic of their ISP.
On both sides of the world, the lobby of the cultural industry are
trying to put pressure on governments to implement a policy against
piracy. In some countries, one of the first steps is filtering through
the Internet service provider. Thus, at the end of last month,
Australia, Senator Stephen Conroy has decided to implement a series of
tests regulating ISPs. Europe is certainly not immune. The site of
BitTorrent file-sharing is blocked in Sweden and Denmark, TV 2 is the
only player to want to oppose this measure.
Besides piracy, some ISPs are trying to block traffic for their users
to limit their bandwidth charges. By pointing the finger aging
infrastructure and an economic model unsatisfactory, the U.S. cable
operator Comcast, for example, tried to filter the content of users to
prevent the transfer of video.
Faced with these practices, there is the problem of net neutrality, a
concept which is designed to prevent any discriminatory practices on
the network. Among the players supporting net neutrality, Google is
highly engaged with Yahoo! Ebay, Amazon or Microsoft.
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