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Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK
angryphase writes "The British Phonographic Institute (the UK's RIAA) has noticed a significant increase in the amount of encrypted torrents — from 4% of torrent traffic a year ago to 40% today. Whether it follows a trend for hiding suspicious activities or an increased awareness of personal privacy is up for (weak) debate. Either way, this change of attitude is catching the eye of ISPs, music industry officials, and enforcement agencies. Matt Phillips, spokesman for the UK record industry trade association explains, 'Our internet investigations team, internet service providers and the police are well aware of encryption technology: it's been around for a long time and is commonplace in other areas of internet crime. It should come as no surprise that if people think they can hide illegal activity they will attempt to.'"
I dunno... could have used a car in it somewhere...
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Analogies without cars are like cars without radios. Sure, they work, but do you really want one?
Come now...if you have a trunk you must be concealing some illegal activity. I bet your trunk is filled with cocaine and corpses. "It should come as no surprise that" you "think" you "can hide illegal activity" and you "will attempt to" so... =P
yeah most ISPs these days want to install all kind of crap on your PC and they REQUIRE that their guys do it... gotta justify the $120 installation fee somehow. Thats why the last 3 times I've moved/had cable service installed I basically told them that the only "computer" on the internet was my Xbox. which basically means the tech drops off the rental modem and plugs in the coax. THEN I can install the rest of the network myself.
It's always great when they comment on the fact that they walked by no less than 6 PCs on their way to the Xbox and double check that they're ONLY installing the Xbox... yep.
Collector's Edition
He's not a complete dumbass. Encrypted torrents will defeat the purposed ISP level copyright-filtering that some telcos (*cough* AT&T *cough*) are advocating. How do you tell if that encrypted data is the source code to Windows 2000, a Linux ISO or a collection of Chuck Norris jokes?
The Chuck Norris joke collection is easy - the packets perform their own QOS by kicking the hell out of any other packets in their way.
Redundancy is good And also good.