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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.'"
Dear dada21,
I looked you up in the national phone directory and could not find you. I tried other methods, and couldn't get any contact information, personal or otherwise based on your given name. Maybe you're unlisted? Maybe you don't live in the United States?
Please look me up instead to initiate contact. That might work out better.
-Ben Fenner
About those senators and the sex scandals. I know of someone higher up the chain with a sex scandal who's career was not ruined. The difference I see is in the style/attitude with which the person treated the "scandal". It seems if you fess up, and don't treat it as a big deal, others will be more apt to follow your lead. Which is exactly the point here. Information may be used against you, but for the most part you have to let it work against you.
Still, you must let it hurt you. If your career is ruined, hopefully you realized this was a possibility, and played your cards accordingly. If it were to happen to me, I'd shrug, say "You caught me" and go on my merry way. Taking away my career should not ruin me. I don't mean to bring existentialism into this but I have. If you don't believe you have ultimate control over what ruins you and what doesn't, you've already lost the game.
The internet is tubes, not trucks!
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
And updating their WoW client.
Most guns inside the US are used for crime. That doesn't mean they don't have legitimate uses.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Close, but I want a filesystem, not a desktop app, as my client. And I'm expecting to not share some of my files with anyone, though the usual sharing would go well, and switching on sharing would be easy, by sharing the key. Switching it off, too, by just reencrpyting and keeping the key secret.
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Because bittorrent does exactly what you're claiming no one will let you do. I'm just adding a "mutual storage" ratio requirement to the existing "mutual bandwidth" ratio requirements.
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It can work.
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What are you talking about? Simultaneously downloading from 8 peers, in a properly operating swarm, is 8x faster than downloading from a single peer, unless you have the same dl speed that they have upload, which is rare (and will be increasingly so).
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Since I don't actually write filesystems (anymore), promoting the features on Slashdot is how I'm starting working on it :).
:).
Thoughtful feature requests are the highest level design exercise
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