ISP Sued By Irish RIAA

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "An ISP in Ireland has been sued by the Big Four record labels because its subscribers have engaged in P2P sharing of the record companies' song files. The record companies claim the ISP should be buying Audible Magic's CopySense, the software being peddled by the RIAA's expert witness, which supposedly would filter out copyright infringement. Of course, not everyone agrees."

Comments

Re:"Obvious ways"?

[timmarhy]

it's easy to make a p2p app too much of a moving target for any monitoring software to prevent.

first step is to encrypt, when you encrypt something it's not possible to tell it's encrypted, you just can't read whats there. the only way to tell it's encrypted is to monitor a port. this is where you could introduce port hoping, where you use a standard https port to do a handshake where you and the tracker make a randomised set of port changes every 1 hour.

now i know what your going to say - the isp's software could start monitoring trackers and joining in and getting the port changes that way, but have you seen the number of torrents out there? i just don't think such a thing is possible.

I also think it's bullshit to claim it was easier to download a song in 2000, go on any of the dozens of torrent websites and you'll find anything you want in 2 seconds flat.

lastly, why should it be up to the isp's to monitor this? how the hell is it their problem? only luddites suggest isp's are responsible to people browsing kiddie porn or other sick shit, yet somehow it's different when it's the RIAA.

"irish RIAA"

[91degrees]

Or to put it another way, an organisation that is not the RIAA.

Why not call it the Irish record association, or even better, Irish Recorded Music Association, since that's what they're called.