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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.
Its a joke, but shit like that actually costs MORE money than the stupid music.
People downloading good quality TV shows and movies are probably using orders of magnitude more bandwidth than people downloading many, many more songs.
Acutally it's not the Music that Brad Thomas and UW is worried about. It's the bandwidth. I belive UW only has one 155mbit ATM link to the net. This link is shared with voice, video, and remote backups. When I was working for brad thomas he was having paying people complain about video being choppy so something had to be done. Now with ports jumping all around the place it is harder to find p2p programs which have a sponge effect on the outpound pipe.