[governance] UK imposes technical measures against P2P

[Avri Doria]

On 7 Oct 2009, at 07:53, Marilia Maciel wrote:

> "Technical measures" is the British government's euphemistic term  
> for the use of network technology to cut off, block or slow traffic.  
> They include protcol blocking, URL blocking, "traffic shaping",  
> throttling, and suspension of the users account. In other words,  
> "technical measures" mean ‘cutting people off the Internet'  either  
> directly by suspending access, or indirectly, by blocking them from  
> doing specified activities. They would be applied to users  
> individually.
>
>
> "Technical measures"  require equipment such as  traffic management  
> systems and deep packet inspection. Indeed,  the deep packet  
> inspection systems are necessary in order to apply technical  
> measures to specific individual users. They work in conjunction with  
> software called ‘policy management' which enables the ISPs to manage  
> exactly what each individual user's account can do.
>
>


Since the UK telecoms has long been suspected of doing the same to  
Skype traffic, it would hardly surprising to find that they have the  
equipment in place already.

Business expediency and the lack of net neutrality apparently enables  
the restriction of access to information.  Quite an information  
ecosystem we are building.

a.

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