Alcides Fonseca

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ISPs deleting logs of IPs

First Bahnhof and now Tele2, two major ISPs in Sweden, are now deleting their logs after they stop being used by their servers. This decision aims to protect the anonymity of Internet users, but will probably not last long because of a law Sweden has approved to force ISPs to give the logs in cases of copyright infringement.

It makes sense ISPs are trying to help their clients to be anonymous. P2P is the largest slice of the Internet traffic, and the reason many people have more expensive plans (unlimited traffic and higher speeds).

Copyright infringement is a really weak reason to break our privacy. If they were talking about child abuse, pedophilia, it would be easier to understand, but this way we can be sure it’s the music industry lobby playing the Big Brother on us.

Btw, I found this on Carlos Morgado’s blog, be sure to check his opinion on Microsoft and ODF too ;)