Web Filters Prove Less Effective Than MPAA, RIAA Might Like April 6, 2008 — 07:46 AM PDT — by Paul Glazowski —

So you’ve heard that a number of organizations - namely the MPAA, RIAA, and the more global IFPI - have been trying to get ISPs to implement filters to prevent the illicit transfer of digital files through peer-to-peer technologies, most especially BitTorrent. Well, it turns out that those groups’ wishes to circumvent piracy are going to be quite a bit harder to fulfill. The reason being that companies hawking the software required to bring about a future of nonproliferation don’t quite pass the strength test. As Janko Roettgers of NewTeeVee has found, a number of vendors, given samplings of encrypted and unencrypted transfers to…