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| Stop freaking out!! I read those links and do any of you, at all, understand how the technology works and its limitation? From what I can see here, only sequential, plain text protocols can be tracked. What this basically means is sites like Youtube could possibly apply these filters, or ISPs can to filter sites such as Youtube. It may also filter plain ftp/http downloads of, say, an AVI file. Ways abound around that, if you use these protocols.
However, I can see unencrypted BitTorrent being unaffected, as well as Usenet and most intelligent ftp sites. Usenet and most ftp sites use rars. It would take massive memory, CPU cycles, and disk space for it to filter multirars, if it's even remotely possible(these rars would all have to come down to see any length of video). BitTorrent sends nonsequential pieces that often are too small to even do a few full frames of an XViD compressed AVI. Basically, this technology is useless, except maybe to protect Youtube from any more liability and some other video sites.
If you like pirated Youtube videos before they get deleted, or want an http downloaded AVI, there are encrypted ssh, http, and ssl tunnels that work extremely well for these things, unlike torrents. One that I use to get by RR's crappy routing(by using a server I route ok to, then relying on its ISP's routing) gives me my full connection speed. |
