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ISPs Fight Against Encrypted BitTorrent Downloads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stopping-the-flow dept.

oglsmm writes to mention an Ars Technica article about a new product intended to detect and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic. When torrents first saw common use ISPs would throttle the bandwidth available to them, in order to ensure connectivity for everyone. Some clients began encrypting their data to get around this, and the company Allot Communications is now claiming their NetEnforcer product will return the advantage to the ISPs. From the article: "Certainly, increasing BitTorrent traffic is a concern for ISPs. In early 2004, torrents accounted for 35 percent of all traffic on the Internet. By the end of that year, this figure had almost doubled, and some estimate that in certain markets, such as Asia, torrent traffic uses as much as 80 percent of all bandwidth. However, BitTorrent is an extremely important tool that has many uses other than what everyone assumes it is good for, namely movie piracy."

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  1. lol, moustrap, mouse by (fagging+beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you build a better mousetrap someone will fling a couger at you.

    1. Re:lol, moustrap, mouse by Millenniumman · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, no, no! You can't do that! You have to support regulation of ISPs, not use the free market and switch! You are a powerless peon, and only the government can protect you from the evil corporations. You are preaching a philosophy of hate, you evil fascist!

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  2. Many other uses by Wind_Walker · · Score: 5, Funny
    However, BitTorrent is an extremely important tool that has many uses other than what everyone assumes it is good for, namely movie piracy.
    I agree wholeheartedly. There's pornography, music piracy, video game piracy, and pornography.
    1. Re:Many other uses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
      Are you saying you don't use BitTorrent to download ISO images of Linux
      Hell no. I'm a BSD user, you know.
  3. But I thought SPAM was 80% of traffic? by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 5, Funny
    Spam + Torrent = %160, plus whatever "real" traffic the net has...

    Wow, stunning efficiency, or bad statistics.

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    1. Re:But I thought SPAM was 80% of traffic? by bunions · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think spam goes in either a different pipe or a truck, I'm not 100% sure of how it works though.

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  4. Re:First by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not "first".

    "Fist".

    Up you ass.

    About elbow deep.

    (let's see, will this one be modded: Troll? Flamebait? Off-Topic? The suspense is KILLING ME!)

  5. Re:compare to land by masterzora · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're right... it was missing a car.

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