well said…… we will just get better encryption and and passkeys only when download complete …

1. Force encryption both in and out.
2. Use one of the gaming ports. Will really piss off the gamers
(there are more of them than bittorrent users) when thier online
games stop communicating after ISP’s start blocking port traffic.
3. Use IP blocklists. PeerGuardian for Windows. Azureus for Linux
allows you to use several different types besides the one for PG
all with auto updating.

If your bittorrent software doesn’t allow encryption change to another one. If yours does have encryption and you don’t have it turned on better turn it on.

First someone in the general public will create a (or several) copyrighted works and distributes them over the internet. Eventually, one will end up being somewhere on AT&T’s network that the copyright owner didn’t authorize and that person will ignore the little guy (see website owner or p2p user) and sue AT&T for not stopping it. This will be repeated until AT&T (or their stock holders) decides maybe giving up that immunity wasn’t worth it.

I may even volunteer to start the process(maybe).

1. AT&T will be filtering for content from the big media corporations, but what about copyrighted content from the “little guy”? If I write a song and it starts being traded on the P2P networks, will AT&T help me filter that song? If not, then basically they’re saying that it’s only important to filter the content from organizations with deep pockets.

2. If everyone starts encrypting all their online activities, how happy is the government going to be that they have to spend huge amounts of time and effort (if it’s even possible) to break the encryption on every piece of data that they pull down?

What many folks fail to understand is that AT&T is already pulling down this information. Right now, the intel agencies don’t have the right to use it, except against so called “enemies of the state”. Right now, the Intelligence Czar wants to push for laws which make us all enemies.

I think AT&T is airing this concept of filtering out because it wants money from the record companies. No way are subscribers going to pay to be monitored. Most will leave in droves when that happens, so the revenue for this type of thing won’t be coming from AT&T customers. That leaves music co., movie co., and the state. Someone has to pay for this uptick in surveillance. Just collecting the data is not enough. There must be people or programs available which will sift through the data, looking for patterns of copyright infringement.

Also, the whole copyright infringement thing is a red herring. Really, what AT&T and the gov. are doing is creating the surveillance state. They’re using the “fear” of lost Hollywood profits to drive the policy. This is the Stasi and SAVAK all over again, with fewer “disappearances” (although there have been a few of those, as well).

The file sharers will hit back with encrypted torrents. In fact, encryption may become so ubiquitous that everybody is using it (hey, why should my legitimate traffic be subject to inspection if my neighbor’s torrents pass right through?) This policy will have the effect of making everybody into a criminal. Basically, they’ll just assume that because you use encryption, you are probably guilty of something. The government will have accomplished its goal of being able to arrest anyone, at any time, for hidden or arbitrary reasons.

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