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The Pirates Will Always Win, Says UK ISP

Posted by Soulskill on from the except-in-pittsburgh dept.

TheEvilOverlord writes "The head of UK ISP TalkTalk, Charles Dunstone, has made the comment ahead of the communications minister's Digital Britain report that illegal downloading cannot be stopped. He said 'If you try speed humps or disconnections for peer-to-peer, people will simply either disguise their traffic or share the content another way. It is a game of Tom and Jerry and you will never catch the mouse. The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid.' Instead he advocates allowing users 'to get content easily and cheaply.'"

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  1. Yep you can stop P2P by TheLink · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yes it's hard to stop copying, but it's not that difficult to seriously clamp down on P2P.

    To me it's easy to spot P2P, the characteristics are:
    1) Lots of connections to multiple other IPs
    2) High upload AND download

    So if you see that, you can just leave the first 4 "conversations" that are downloading alone, and the first 2 "conversations" that are uploading, and squish down the rest till the first bunch are done.

    By conversation I mean IP to IP. Doesn't matter how many TCP/UDP connections between two IPs, it's still one "conversation".

    If you see small packets, both ways but at low to medium speeds, that could be voice or video chat.

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