Wired reports on the latest batch of stupidity on the copyright/DRM front:

A new lobbying group on Thursday endorsed internet filtering for copyright material. The group Arts+Labs consists of content providers, software makers, songwriters and equipment makers. The lobby's formation comes weeks after the Federal Communications Commission issued an open invitation to internet filtering.

Yeah, it's worked so well thus far, let's try and hose off the entire net with ISP based malware. I'll truly enjoy having arbitrary files mis-identified as copyrighted material and dropped. See, the only way to make this work is to require a watermark on all content - and have ISP's block anything that has fake watermarks, or no watermark. Don't even get me started on how much of a roadblock to progress that would be.

Never mind the fair use concerns - this is a project that's bound to fail ugly - and solve no problems while it's at it.

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