Thanks, RIAA: Osama bin Laden
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA has done more to pave the way for future terrorist infrastructure than Bin Laden could ever hope for.
Say what !!!! ????
TorrentFreak is running an article which states, in part, “BitTorrent is often praised as an indestructible force moving petabytes of data around every day. It does have an Achilles’ heel though, and prominent p2p researchers warn that millions of downloads will come to a halt if eight servers hosted in Sweden happen to go offline.”
The experts are predicting a widespread meltdown if The Pirate Bay goes under, “because they track over 50% of torrents,” says David Barrett (right) on Quinthar.
“If TPB’s trackers go down, users will ‘fail over’ to a bunch of other trackers that probably can’t handle the load, which will likely trigger a cascading failure of pretty much all the trackers out there,” he says, going on »»»
But what it doesn’t mention is that this will probably all be fixed by the end of the week and it’ll be back to business as normal before the end of the month.
In other words, the ultimate culmination of a multi-year, international legal process against TPB will probably result in … a week or two of disrupted downloading.
On top of that, if trackers start to get taken down with any regularity, the various torrent client authors will probably just take the time to perfect their “trackerless torrent” technology (generally based on DHTs), and then they’ll be even more indestructible.
And if everyone’s going to upgrade, I bet they’ll slip in “always on” encryption (there goes any chance of backbone sampling!), and maybe some early experimentation with onionskin routing.
Piracy will never be killed, and fighting it only makes it stronger. It’s like a self-fulfilling, cyclical prophecy – the only consequence of passing bills in the (disingenuous) name of “fighting terrorism and preventing child pornography” is to encourage the creation of tools that enable more of it, at no reduction to piracy whatsoever. Which in turn fuels calls for more disingenuous bills, fueling more technology development, and so on.
Call me crazy, but I am far more concerned that these P2P tools are creating an untraceable infrastructure for *real* crime than for pseudo-crime. One of these days there’s going to be a huge story about Iran coordinating with Hezbollah using encrypted P2P VoIP routed through a decentralized onionskin network, or Al Qaeda distributing terrorist materials using BitTorrent 3.0 – and how the worlds’ nations are fundamentally unable to stop it… unless you give up more of your rights to privacy, free speech, and other crucial civil liberties.
With all of the above in mind, “The RIAA has done more to pave the way for future terrorist infrastructure than Bin Laden could ever dream,” David adds.
TorrentFreak – P2P Researchers Fear BitTorrent Meltdown, February 12, 2009
Quinthar – What if The Pirate Bay fails? Short term chaos, long-term nothing, February 12, 2009
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February 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I can’t believe they are wasting so much time and so many resources trying to stop this. It might be able to pay off if it were only a few thousand people sharing files online, but there are millions of people in every country with internet doing it across the globe.
I think they need to regroup and find a new strategy to stay viable and relevant by harnessing this power instead of continually trying to fight it head-on through courts.
February 14th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I have thor instaled on one of my system and I am playing with it. Good luck for anyone trying to get my IP when Thor is running!
February 14th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
“One of these days there’s going to be a huge story about Iran coordinating with Hezbollah using encrypted P2P…”
I was actually expecting this propaganda from the Bush crowd.
It fits in perfectly with all the other “terrorist threats” they concocted to take away American liberties “in order to keep you safe”.
I was a bit surprised when the P2P “threat” wasn’t brought up.
February 14th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
This is ridiculous scaremongering. TPB going down would not cause other sites to do the same! What about all those times TPB went down owing to glitches or hacks or server moves?
Another thing is that many of today’s torrents are multi-tracker, which means that they’re already set up for continued sharing through other trackers if one goes down. The result would be no increase in tracker bandwidth, as the other sites were already tracking them.
Thirdly, private sites such as Demonoid would be largely unaffected as most of those who wish to use a private tracker have already switched to one. The only bad thing would be if TPB going down convinced enough people to switch to private sites; but historically this has not brought anything down. (I myself switched to Demonoid some years ago from a well-known public tracker that was brought down by court order.)
February 14th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
ya didn’t the Romans do something like the riaa/mpaa and persecute somehting and look how that turned out ……
February 14th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
This is ridiculous scaremongering. TPB going down would not cause other sites to do the same!
Um, Eric, that’s what he’s saying.
February 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
BTW the xbt tracker on standard setup per server could handle 350,000 clients with tweaks a half million or more.
how many servers are there out there running at under capacity , OMG loads and loads, so don’t give me this about some mass movement.
all a load a cripe and the one thing that will happen is the mpaa/ifpi trying there DOS crap to make it appear that way.
when you add the fact that in time payback comes.
February 14th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
“Call me crazy, but I am far more concerned that these P2P tools are creating an untraceable infrastructure for *real* crime than for pseudo-crime. One of these days there’s going to be a huge story about Iran coordinating with Hezbollah using encrypted P2P VoIP routed through a decentralized onionskin network, or Al Qaeda distributing terrorist materials using BitTorrent 3.0 – and how the worlds’ nations are fundamentally unable to stop it… unless you give up more of your rights to privacy, free speech, and other crucial civil liberties.”
And THEY will claim that it is in the benefit of children that you give up more of your rights to privacy, free speech, and other crucial civil liberties. THEY are already building an army of oprahmoms with the help of brainwashing channels like Oprah; and there are simply too many of them to fight against. Oprahmoms are also customers of the entertainment kartels who keep them afloat.
Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_children_%28politics%29
And here: http://www.cracked.com/article_16765_p2.html
February 15th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Only prob with onionskin…etal….. is you loose quite a bit of speed. Not to say
you shouldnt try them, the ones im currently playing with bounce me over
to the EU. If youre on that side of the pond anyways, it might be fast enuff.
Use PeerGaurdian2, encyrpt everything you can, and in the words of Surfer
“sharethewealth”