torrentfreak.com — Over the past months more Bittorrent users noticed that their ISP is killing all Bittorrent traffic. But, at the same time utorrent and azureus are working together to implement message stream encryption in order to take out these traffic shapers.
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azzurricrazeFeb 5, 2006
Now I'm getting dl speeds above 5kb/s
digital56kFeb 6, 2006
Actually I'll be surprised if this works for longer than a month. Encryption won't stop ISPs detecting the BitTorrent traffic. Why not? Because they are perfectly situated to decrypt it using MITM attacks for public key exchange. The only thing that might stop them are wiretapping laws and *possibly* the DMCA.
julianmorrisonFeb 6, 2006
I?m not sure that RC4 is good enough.Quoting wikipedia: ?RC4 falls short of the standards set by cryptographers for a secure cipher in several ways, and thus is not recommended for use in new applications.?
obkenobiFeb 6, 2006
Time Warner hasn't been throttling any p2p yet. Unfortunately their regular service is so bad that it hardly makes a difference. I am surprised when a day goes by that service is not interrupted or slowed to a crawl. FiOS is sounding very good (see what happens when you light a fire under the ass of one of these evil monopolists?), but for now we are stuck with the broadband nazis who have us trapped, and they know it. They have no incentive to improve, so consumers get f*****.At a time when other countries are pushing consumer broadband into the 100Mbit range, our own domestic providers are heading in the opposite direction and trying to convince us that even 8Mbit is a luxury!Maybe if we didn't have a bunch of corporate thieves in office right now, ***many who own stock in broadband companies***, some legislation might be passed to open up the networks to more competition. I guess there's just no solution at this point, they've got us trapped.Americans, enjoy your "global superiority," but your internet is still a ghetto worse than that of China. With this kind of corruption, America isn't going to be at the top for long. At the very least, it will be sidelined on the internet.
aztekm30Feb 6, 2006
It sucks for roger users in Canada, i know i used to live in a rogers area. Now i moved to a cogeco area and they don't seem to throttle my BT. The s**tty this is either you use rogers or Bell. There both crap.
erfdogFeb 18, 2006
I love using torrents to download mp3's and get back some of the hundreds of dollars I have spent on music over the years that is stuck on vinyl or lost on decayed tapes. And I still purchase music and movies at the same rate I always did. I don't feel guilty!I also work for a medium sized ISP and deeply understand bandwidth issues. We currently don't shape torrent traffic, but I could see it coming. It's not that all ISP's want to play God or are cheap. Much of it comes down to rapid growth of the Internet and the neophytes who are now getting on the Net. You wouldn't believe the number of calls we take from customers complaining about performance and when we check the traffic from their IP, we find loads of torrent traffic from a popular seed that the consumer is totally unaware their teenager is running. We continue to enlarge the pipes at the core, and fight the high percentage of Zombie traffic pecking at the "edge". In general we try to run a fairly open network, but in these days of growth it is very tough.I appreciate the comments by thyratron above, the Net really is evolving. With VOIP and other "so called" mission critical traffic, a level of QOS needs to be maintained. I recently sat in on a lecture on "anomaly detection" with regards to traffic shaping saying that it can even be used to help provide QOS to the customer seeding a popular torrent, by ensuring they still maintain bandwidth for other protocols, without effecting their torrent traffic terribly. Once the heavy traffic subsides, it can re-shape accordingly. This is still new stuff and very expensive.Don't take this post wrong. I still am for as much freedom as possible on the Internet, as are many of my co-workers. Most of us use torrents to get that old album we haven't heard forever, or to download ISO's of our favorite distro. We will be a voice, in helping keep things open in our little corner of the world. But the Internet explosion has created some interesting challenges for ISP's and their staff. Our biggest problem still seems to be the Internet newbies that still are coming in hordes. ;0)