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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to dadkins
Re: Deep Inspection and Tracked?
Right, and I'll list some of the additional problems.
* This kind of arrangement would have to be a whole separate ISP, or otherwise have some way to separate out the users who want to file-share and have their traffic monitored and pay for it, from the rest who aren't interested in getting the files and don't want to pay for them.
* How are they going to detect all the file transfers that copyright holders expect to get paid for? Even changing one bit will change the hash of a file. There are some inspection methods that try to look at the whole structure of a music or video file (after re-assembling the pieces), but this is unreliable. Besides, even weak encryption will prevent identifying the files.
* Because of the file-identification problem, what they're probably talking about is sharing of only the particular files that users get from this one service, with these files containing special markers and have their hashes in a list so they can be spotted easily. So then you have a limited selection to choose from, and copyright holders would not get paid for transfers of files not on the list.
* Does any of the money ever go to the artists/creators at all? Typically with things like this, it's only a fraction of a cent per dollar, with the rest going to the corporate copyright holders that exploit the artists. |
