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The Pirate Bay's Plans To Encrypt the 'Net
Keeper Of Keys writes "According to newteevee.com, The Pirate Bay, those fun- and freedom-loving Swedes, have embarked on a project to encrypt all internet traffic, probably by means of an OS-level wrapper around all network connections, which would fall back to an unencrypted connection when the other end is not similarly equipped. The move has been prompted by a recent change in Swedish law, allowing the authorities to snoop on network traffic. This will be a boon to filesharers and anyone else concerned about authorities and trade groups' recent moves towards 'policing' network traffic at the ISP level."
you are delusional if you think thepiratebay cares about anything but this:
Ad revenue
Thats what the site is there for, not fighting for anyone freedom, or privacy, or any other bullshit that they cloak it with. The site makes a virtue out of the fact that it hosts no technically illegal files, yet it cries about bandwidth to justify its extensive ads, and the fact that it is one of the highest earning sites on the web for ad revenue.
On top of this, they trick the poor kids who love the site into buying t shirts, and even contributing to their Swiss bank account to buy a fucking island!
Hilarious.
As a major money-making organisation, I think its especially amazing that they manage to persuade their users that they are "sticking it to the man" by using the site.
thepiratebay is just a front for a large scale criminal organisation to profit from the work of musicians, TV producers, actors and software developers. If you really think that those Swedish kids that they put on TV to represent them are the ones running that site, then you are really beyond help.
Of course its all a front. And this new idea of theirs will not happen. Its designed to get headlines because headlines == traffic == ad revenue.
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how much are you getting to troll here? is it like per post, per amount of bullshit spewed per post? is your sound recording still working?
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Another couple of things they should do is send all data on port 443, and use the interlock protocol for key exchange. Much more difficult as they have to a) figure out that the traffic is not HTTPS and b) be an active participant in the MITM attack to be able to snoop on the communications.
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You can encrypt anything you want, but in the case of encrypting P2P traffic there's a simple solution: charge per use.
Encrypted or not, an effective P2P torrent system MUST transmit and receive gigabytes worth of data. Encrypted or not, it HAS to move a lot of bytes. It's simply the nature of the beast.
So let ISPs charge for upstream traffic on a per kilo/mega/gigabyte basis, and the whole thing falls apart. More and more users leach instead of seed. And the number of seeds decrease as no one wants to pay the piper for the OTHER person's free copy of Iron Man.
Besides, the government can simply declare the use of encryption for illegitimate traffic illegal in and as of itself. Start broadcasting gigabytes of encrypted data to a myriad of sources (another P2P trait), and HS starts knocking on the door. Or, for that matter, just ban non-commercial use where the endpoint isn't using a registered certificate.
You KNOW the government isn't going to jut sit still and what gigabytes of encrypted traffic flow by. Think of the children...
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