2008/12/9 geni geniice@gmail.com:
The censorship mechanism will stay in place
- the ISPs feel they aren't free not to sign up to this "voluntary"
scheme - and probably be refined to see if they can block sites like us again without breaking everything as they did this time.
Not all ISPs have signed up.
Virtually all ISPs (in terms of market share, at least) have signed up to it; however, not all have *implemented* all of the recommended blocks - see for example that BT took 24 hours longer to institute the Wikipedia block, and Tiscali (as far as I'm aware) still haven't, but both of them are listed as members.
It is possible the IWF will try to make the decision stand. In which case, party on.
That effectively gives people a weapon to mess up the traffic to any site they feel like messing with (the image is on imageshack, it wasn't on youtube last I looked but would not be hard to get it on there myspace and facebook would not present major problems) really any site that allows user uploads is a potential target.
Bear in mind that for most sites which allow user upload... well, their system would work quite well. URL blacklisted, disappears from view; the rest of the site is unaffected. Even were someone to spam youtube with abusive videos, they could be filtered without any significant adverse effects once reported. Not many sites deal with IPs of their visitors quite the way we do...