{"id":10505,"date":"2013-07-13T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2013-07-13T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T19:19:41","slug":"att-invents-the-ultimate-anti-piracy-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10505","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Invents The Ultimate Anti-Piracy System"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The patent in question is named \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/153597204\/ATT-PRISM-Pirate-Patent\">Real-time content detection in ISP transmissions<\/a>\u201d and focuses exclusively on tracking and deterring online piracy. According to the telco, copyright infringement is a \u201crecurring problem in Internet usage\u201d that is hard to police without the proper tools..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/prism-for-pirates-att-invents-the-ultimate-anti-piracy-system-130713\/\">PRISM for Pirates: AT&amp;T Invents The Ultimate Anti-Piracy System | TorrentFreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like deep packet inspection comparing against hashes of known violating content that constantly updates.\u00a0 Even the patent seems obvious as I had that idea circling in my head how they would do that as soon as I read the headline of this article.\u00a0\u00a0 This is not innovative.\u00a0 AT&amp;T must feel comfortable with their monopoly status to screw over customers like this.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine keeping hash tables of content violations accurate will be very easy.\u00a0\u00a0 Add to that the security implications of hackers infecting these tables with bogus hashes and you have a recipe for disaster.\u00a0 Only a company with monopoly status can take such a risk because many of their &#8220;customers&#8221; have no other choice for Internet access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The patent in question is named \u201cReal-time content detection in ISP transmissions\u201d and focuses exclusively on tracking and deterring online piracy. According to the telco, copyright infringement is a \u201crecurring problem in Internet usage\u201d that is hard to police without &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[823,47,874,352],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-dpi","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-software-patents","tag-sopa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}