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| How many levels of stupid do you want?
encrypted files = not sniffable |
First, see above screenshot - if my random Mac BT client supports encryption, I'm going to assume that all the popular windows versions will as well. BT 1, MPAA 0.
Second, this will help spur net neutrality legislation. As most people on this technology-oriented site should know, no technology is perfect, especially when a salesman touts it as such. There will be false positives which will drive up support costs for ISPs dumb enough to implement this. Then there are also legitimate uses. Fair Use is still in effect, and if I'm editing video for someone and the clip I need to insert gets "filtered" as I'm ftp-ing it from a client's server, I'm going to be pissed. There are plenty of legitimate uses that will be thwarted by this if it's implemented on a large scale.
Third, common carrier status has helped ISPs remain a "dumb pipe" that's not liable for what's transmitted over that pipe. The main reason this has remained that way through the years is that ISPs generally do not filter traffic based on content (BT throttling is not looking at what's in the stream-that can be written off as network management). Once ISPs start peeking inside packets they risk being liable for any traffic on their network. That's a slippery slope for them.
Fourth, file sharing has been and will always be a cat and mouse game. ISPs will sink a huge amount of money into something that will be thwarted shortly after it's installed.
Fifth, the "free marketers" (hi TCH), should be opposed to this - they don't want a nanny state and this is just another version of the nanny state brought to you by one powerful lobbying entity. The MPAA will push for legislation to require this junk. Should the government be forcing ISPs to pay for all this extra crap? Not in a free market they shouldn't...
Now look at the list above and tell me that this won't raise prices - it's like a tax, but you're lining the pockets of the MPAA members and the manufacturers of this electronic snakeoil.
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