The timing couldn't have been better. A new study coming out of Australia has concluded that content filtering technology has shown significant improvement, but couldn't tell the difference between legal and illegal content over a file-sharing network.

In Britain, there is this distinct rush to implement mandatory content filtering whether ISPs want to or not. Many ISPs are quite reluctant to do so and, if this study, combined with the other studies conducted, are anything to go by, it's not hard to see why.

The study (PDF) says the following:

ACMA considers that, under the conditions [a closed environment] created for the trial, the state of ISP-level filtering technology has significantly advanced, and stands in contrast with the state of this technology evidenced in the previous trial of filter products commissioned by NetAlert Ltd in 2005.



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