Comcast, Verizon troubles illustrate peer-to-peer software opportunity
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| To summarize: although I suspect most BitTorrent traffic consists of pirated
| software, music, TV shows, and movies, there's also some important,
| legitimate content on BitTorrent--Linux distributions, collections of classic
| e-books in the public domain, Linux distributions...wait, I mentioned that
| already. Actually, there probably isn't that much legitimate BitTorrent
| activity. But however much there is, it deserves to pass unmolested on
| Comcast and other Internet services.
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| So clearly we need a separate public-access peer-to-peer system. How would it
| differ from BitTorrent? Well, the content would have to be legitimate, and
| probably so. That means a central authority and a master list of authorized
| content.
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Related:
Comcast to face lawsuits over BitTorrent filtering
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| With regard to Comcast's legal liability, von Lohmann said that he could not
| comment as he had not yet had a chance to review the New York anti criminal
| impersonation laws
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Is Comcast's BitTorrent filtering violating the law?
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| Assuming that the SYN packet goes through, the three-way handshake is allowed
| to happen, then the two hosts will be able to begin communicating. Your ISP
| can still kill the connection later, should they wish to, merely by blocking
| the transmission of future packets.
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| According to Torrent Freak, Comcast is not doing this. They are instead
| sending a reset (or RST) packet to the Comcast customer, pretending to be
| from the host at the end of the BitTorrent connection.
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