The Private Police State

At CES, Representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and the telecom giant AT&T discussed whether the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level. - NY Times BITS Blog
We’re looking at the beginnings of a private police state. - Tim Wu
Snooping isn't actually required
More like Rent-a-Cops than the SS

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/att-and-other-isps-may-be-getting-ready-to-filter/

At CES, Representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and the telecom giant AT&T discussed whether the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level. - NY Times BITS Blog