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 maartenaElmoPremium
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| It is impossible..... In this case, the judge ordered to filter out "pirated content", but allow legal traffic using the same protocol. And that is simply impossible. You can't block an illegal torrent, and at the same time still allow linux torrents to pass through.
Either way, blocking piracy in general is impossible. I don't know how old many of you were, but I was in a test case in the Netherlands for cable internet, back in 1996 when the technology was just launched. This was pre-P2P programs, and we simply shared our "stuff" by having personal FTP servers, and allowing friends to log on, grab stuff, and spread it. We had FTP servers on obscure ports so that the ISP wouldn't find them, and it wasn't uncommon to have 30 FTP sites in your bookmarks from all the friends you made on the local IRC channel. And this was 12 years ago.
Around the same time, the "warez cd" was really popular. CD Burners just got in the "affordable" range, and for roughly $10 one could buy a CD from colleagues, classmates, and other friends, filled with releases from known release groups. Those CD's would contain 10, 15 of the latests games (which were no more then 30, 50 Mb a piece back then), applications, etc.
P2P slowly took over, as it was much easier just to search on the internet and download what you needed. But with these days of cheap DVD burning, even IF ISP's succesfully manage to weed out P2P, Piracy will simply continue using physical media.
What the industry should do is adjust to the current situation instead of trying to fight it. iTunes has been a HUGE success, and similar online shops could be setup for TV series, movies, etc. As long as you keep it affordable, say $5 for a TV episode, $10 for a DVD length movie, it will probably be a success. But the industry wants to make more money and does not want TV episodes to leak to other countries where they haven't aired yet.
The next move in Piracy? Go completely encrypted. It has already proven its success in trying to circumvent throttling by ISP's on torrent files, because the packet headers can't be inspected. And blocking packets that can't be inspected is impossible, as that would stop people from doing online banking, or even ordering something online with a credit card, as that traffic is encrypted and secured, let alone having a VPN link to your work, using SSH, etc.
Piracy cannot be stopped. Period. Not even by dissolving the entire internet.
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| said by maartena:judge ordered to filter out "pirated content", but allow legal traffic using the same protocol. And that is simply impossible. Since in effect "everything" is copyrighted there is no way for a third party to: 1) unambiguously identify the specific work, 2) verify with copyright owner what rights they have chosen to reserve to themselves, and 3) verify if there are additional restrictions in force due to contractual obligations between seller and buyer (shrink wrapped software licenses come to mind).
If content industry spent half as much time trying to figure out how to exploit low cost distribution created by the Internet as they do trying to roll back technology their bottom line would be much improved.
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