Blocking Kazaa 2.0?

coder_ asks: "Has anyone had success blocking the latest versions of this annoying P2P application in a network-wide context? Previously, people have been told to block a specific port, etc, yet as expected, Kazaa has found an easy solution to this. Apparently, when a connection via default port is not available, Kazaa makes encrypted http requests through port 80, making it rather difficult to now block. If anyone has had success in doing so, I would love to hear from you."

Comments

Re:Why not just use Web proxies

[duffbeer703]

You are either a troll or a complete idiot. I'm not sure which.

Let's see a quote where RIAA said that music sharing was legal. I suppose the arrest of those cadets at the US Naval Academy for sharing music was a sign of music publishers "approval" of file sharing.

Unless you are completely delusional, there is no way that you can assert and signifigant percentage of Kazaa traffic is used to distribute material other than pirated music, porn, and software.

Your examples of garage bands that have used P2P as a free distributional are heart warming -- but they are exception rather than the rule.