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[ NNSquad ] Re: Internet Becomes Weapon in Fox-Cablevision Fight


On 10/19/2010 6:40 PM, Lauren Weinstein wrote:

Internet Becomes Weapon in Fox-Cablevision Fight

http://bit.ly/aff1st (New York Times)

I think this illustrates the futility of what Fox was trying to do. It fails in two ways:


1. Anybody who is reasonably net-savvy will simply go through an anonymizing proxy, thereby defeating the fox.com and hulu.com block on Cablevision IP addresses.

2. In the process, they blocked access for some people who _were_ paying for Fox content, e.g., via satellite services. That must have turned some faces red at Fox. Or maybe not; from what I've seen, News Corp. is completely shameless.

  [ Beyond the policy issues, the apparent fact that (2) was not
    adequately considered *before* blocks were deployed, would seem
    to call into question the technical competence of the involved
    parties.  The lack of "appropriate" blocking granularity should
    have been completely obvious ahead of time.

       -- Lauren Weinstein
          NNSquad Moderator ]