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U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic

mk2mk2 writes "News.com has an article on how they're preparing to shut down P2P sharing of copyrighted content: 'For months, the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming's network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or "Friends" episode.'" It's scary until one realizes that most P2P traffic isn't encrypted, like back when everyone still used telnet.

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  1. oh my! by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone wasting bandwidth on a 'friends' episode is scary indeed!

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  2. Re:Eh? by petwalrus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds not like a case of too few double negatives causing non-clarity to the writer.

  3. Telnet by DJ+FirBee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I remember telnet.

    It's been like .... hours since I have used telnet.

    Those were the days.

  4. Re:oh my! (girls) by TummyX · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read that as "Girls Gone Wild - Spring Break #19 - The one where the shave the turkey".