NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Comments on NNSquad Purpose
On Nov 11, 2007 8:39 AM, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote: > At 12:07 PM 11/10/2007, John Pettitt wrote: > > >Timeout - I can say with a high degree of certainty (I used to work there) that BitTorrent Inc. is very much focused on legitimate uses of the protocol. > > It's clear why. You can just imagine the BitTorrent people saying to one another, "Hey, we have to get some legitimate companies to use the protocol. That way, we can claim that it has 'substantial noninfringing uses,' even though we really know it's overwhelmingly used for piracy." > > Also, one key feature, encrypted torrents, is not about noninfringing uses. For noninfringing traffic, you BENEFIT from having the traffic being analyzeable by the ISP, because it means the ISP could set up some very very cool caching strategies. Encrypted torrents is all about protecting "you don't want the ISP to see this" content, but it doesn't really work for the problem BitTorrent is currently facing, because the threat to bittorrent has become traffic analysis from the ISP saying "this is bittorrent" and therefore disrupting the traffic, and the cryptography doesn't stop this.