Submission + - Australian Internet to be Made Safe!
Nom du Keyboard writes: SafeMedia is claiming that their filtering solution is going to make the Australian Internet safe from copyright infringement, and excessive bandwidth consumption, with no impact to users, except for a $189 million hit on the government itself. According to the press release, "The P2P Disaggregator technology drops all contaminated P2P traffic, encrypted and non-encrypted, before they reach the user while allowing legitimate P2P and all other Internet traffic to pass freely with no latency." In further grandiose terms it goes on to claim, "SafeMedia solutions are the only solution that can insure complete elimination of all the complex threats of contaminated P2P networks and SafeMedia guarantees the solution will eliminate unauthorized copyright infringement from P2P networks." The ultimate promise is, "The end result is a safer, faster Internet experience for all users and a network that consumes less bandwidth." Aside from a few other promises of how this solution works inside Cable and DSL modems to avoid latency on the network, there's no description of what constitutes "contaminated" files, or how much legitimate content may be accidentally blocked. Does anyone want this Australian solution as part of their own ISP?
