ISP AT&T Considering Content-Recognizing Anti-Piracy Filter for Entire Network

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/net-neuterality/att-considering-scary-content+recognizing-anti+piracy-filter-for-entire-network-320689.php

by Goladus • 19 years ago

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pg• 19 years ago

Surely music-sharing software would evolve to encrypt files even before they finished installing it, no?

rms2• 19 years ago

Bittorrent is well on its way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption

It boggles my mind that AT&T is even considering this, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

ivankirigin2• 19 years ago

I'm not sure pirates are that flexible, but I agree circumnavigation is trivial. I think lots of people are pirates mainly out of convenience. If decrypting were harder than unzipping, people might not use it.

I was thinking about movies and realized that one way to stop pirates is to leapfrog a generation of HD quality. If movies were 3600x2400, even with h264 they would take eons to download. Also, they would take a great deal of time to recompress [compression is much more cpu intensive than decompression]. This makes the amateur pirate's life harder. There would be a reason to buy/rent the disk. Avoiding piracy through innovation ... what a thought.

rms2• 19 years ago

>I was thinking about movies and realized that one way to stop pirates is to leapfrog a generation of HD quality.

That would definitely do it to a certain extent, but the vast majority of people right now aren't interested in super-HD. HD media is catching on slowly enough because most people don't seem to care about the difference between HD-DVD and DVD.

It couldn't stop piracy, it would just end up differentiating based on whether or not people thought 1.4 gig .avi's are good enough.

Goladus• 19 years ago

I hope so. Personally, I'd rather it not be necessary.

tlrobinson• 19 years ago

What happened to the quite simple idea of me giving money to an ISP in return for unfettered access to the Internet?

Oh, that's right... ISPs oversell bandwidth in the hope that most people don't [try to] saturate their connections. Then when they do, the ISPs come up with b.s. excuses like piracy to throttle customer's connections.

I'm not saying piracy isn't a problem, but the ISP's job is to [p]rovide [I]nternet [s]ervice, not decided what I should or shouldn't be able to do on the Internet.

johnarama• 19 years ago

What a waste of time! What are they going to do about people who use GigaTribe, which encrypts all exchanges, huh? huh?! http://www.gigatribe.com

ISP AT&T Considering Content-Recognizing Anti-Piracy Filter for Entire Network

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