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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
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kudos:12 | Cheapest Way Once again, AT&T has chosen the absolute cheapest, but also least effective way, to accomplish a task.
Like a poster said, the pirates will simply archive or encrypt their data and AT&T's investment is nullified. That takes all of 1 extra minute to do so it's no burden for the pirates, but this system will undoubtedly flag tons of legitimate content and wind up causing a headache for the non-pirates out there.
I'm also curious to see exactly WHERE this is implemented. If it flags any traffic, even transit, traversing their network, the potential for false positives is HUGE.
Even if the accuracy rate is 99.99999%, .000001 of a few petabytes of traffic a day is a HUGE amount of false positives.
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia | I think the way it works is the Hollywood companies supply hashes or signature sets or some such representing movies, shows on a list. Those are plugged into the machine and it scans for those movies & shows - probably the latest hit movies, popular shows etc.
That almost has to be the way it works because it would be practically impossible for any setup to have a list of all the copyrighted content in the world and who has permission to do what with it - the database for that would exeed the capacity of any system.
The product is claimed to be able to identify content even with format and codec transformations. It is easier to imagine how this would work in the case of a stream: then you have full and consecutive frames to work with.
Supposedly there are products that also can reassemble video, audio from sets of packets despite near-random order and fragmentary frames and so on. But regarding this kind oftraffic the claims become more dubious.
With encryption on the content, it will almost certainly be unable to identify anything at network speed, if at all.
If they're planning to use man-in-the-middle to spy on SSL transmissions, we need to write to Congress and get this outlawed ASAP. | |
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