Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers

They figure ports and IP addresses that link or distribute wares can be globally blocked and that will solve their problem.

And let’s pretend for a second they can decrypt these packets. (Like let’s pretend they work with the CIA/NSA, who let’s say has some special key…) Even then, how are they going to determine that the sender and receiver do not have legit rights to own and/or transmit those bits? It’s fucking nuts.

The control nexus points of the internet must have occasional cleansing burns to stop them becoming overgrown in our digital ecosystem. It is a permanent danger that any of these sites might become "to big to fail" and become corrupted by state actors. It's simple hygiene, this article is a symptom of the infection taking root.