ISPs Fight Against Encrypted BitTorrent Downloads

oglsmm writes to mention an Ars Technica article about a new product intended to detect and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic. When torrents first saw common use ISPs would throttle the bandwidth available to them, in order to ensure connectivity for everyone. Some clients began encrypting their data to get around this, and the company Allot Communications is now claiming their NetEnforcer product will return the advantage to the ISPs. From the article: "Certainly, increasing BitTorrent traffic is a concern for ISPs. In early 2004, torrents accounted for 35 percent of all traffic on the Internet. By the end of that year, this figure had almost doubled, and some estimate that in certain markets, such as Asia, torrent traffic uses as much as 80 percent of all bandwidth. However, BitTorrent is an extremely important tool that has many uses other than what everyone assumes it is good for, namely movie piracy."

lol, moustrap, mouse

[(fagging beta)]

If you build a better mousetrap someone will fling a couger at you.

Many other uses

[Wind_Walker]

However, BitTorrent is an extremely important tool that has many uses other than what everyone assumes it is good for, namely movie piracy.

I agree wholeheartedly. There's pornography, music piracy, video game piracy, and pornography.

But I thought SPAM was 80% of traffic?

[NotQuiteReal]

Spam + Torrent = %160, plus whatever "real" traffic the net has...

Wow, stunning efficiency, or bad statistics.

Re:But I thought SPAM was 80% of traffic?

[bunions]

I think spam goes in either a different pipe or a truck, I'm not 100% sure of how it works though.

Re:Many other uses

[Professor_UNIX]

I agree wholeheartedly. There's pornography, music piracy, video game piracy, and pornography.

Oh come on! Are you saying you don't use BitTorrent to download ISO images of Linux and home movies (not pornography you pervert) of their vacations and kids playing in the orchestra?

Re:Many other uses

[fistfullast33l]

You forgot pornography.

Re:But I thought SPAM was 80% of traffic?

[Anonymous Coward]

No No, its not a pipe you see it a series of tubes...and if someone sends you an internet it might get stuck in a tube behind a different internet....

Or at least thats how I have heard it works, not positive.

Re:First

[Cpt_Kirks]

Not "first".

"Fist".

Up you ass.

About elbow deep.

(let's see, will this one be modded: Troll? Flamebait? Off-Topic? The suspense is KILLING ME!)

Re:Many other uses

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you saying you don't use BitTorrent to download ISO images of Linux

Hell no. I'm a BSD user, you know.

Re:lol, moustrap, mouse

[iminplaya]

Is that an OSX joke?

Re:But I thought SPAM was 80% of traffic?

[niceone]

I think spam goes in either a different pipe or a truck, I'm not 100% sure of how it works though

I'm 80% sure of how it works, how sure are you? Between us we're probably completely certain.

Re:Steganography?

[davidwr]

Use s teganography [wikipedia.org]. Basically you could send images with extra e ncrypted data tacked on the end; c an the product detect that??? And if some unlucky admin type looks at the image, they get to see goatse in all his glory, but don't see the enc r ypted data hidden in the image.
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Is my hatr e d of this box of wires sensible? Or am I a Linux geek trying to make XP work as I slowly go batshi t insane?

I found your secret! I found your secret!

But wait, was it the correct secret????

Re:Many uses other than Movie Piracy

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Sir,

Your IP address has slandered me, insulted me and publically humiliated me. Additionally your IP address has repeatedly "stolen" PDF versions of 'Goat Shaving Monthly' and 'Creamed Midgets Weekly' from my shared download folder. Are you as you claim, prepared to take full legal responsibility for the unfortunate actions undertaken by your IP address?

Sincerely,

AC

Re:compare to land

[masterzora]

You're right... it was missing a car.

Re:lol, moustrap, mouse

[Millenniumman]

No, no, no! You can't do that! You have to support regulation of ISPs, not use the free market and switch! You are a powerless peon, and only the government can protect you from the evil corporations. You are preaching a philosophy of hate, you evil fascist!

Re:Cost is in buying transit

[Randseed]

1. The ISP goes to torrentLeech, the Pirate Bay, etc., and downloads all the torrents, caching them.
2. the ISP provides them on their local network.
3. The ISP doesn't have to pay their tier-1 provider for the bandwidth, because it's all on their local net.
4. PROFIT!

Re:lol, moustrap, mouse

[Anonymous Coward]

OSX is the joke.