people on here think they have somehow been winning this fight to control media, when they have been kidding themselfs. the fight hasn't even STARTED yet...
Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
I can't fucking wait for the fight to get started. I'd be very impressed if their DPI can get signatures on what I am sending/receiving with VPN/SSL protected traffic, and usually at a minimum of 128-bit AES.
When you use hosted torrent solutions, ssl protected ftp transfers, and VPN tunnels back and forth between different locations and devices, it makes it pretty gosh darned hard to effectively inspect that traffic for content. I think the best researchers have been able to demonstrate is figuring out the type of traffic, not getting individual signatures on the content.
This is not very hard to setup. I am sure that there could be thousands of blog sites up within weeks once the fight starts showing people how to bypass the DPI by encapsulating their traffic with some form of encryption.
Of course, our methods of sharing data between each other will evolve to meet this new threats since encryption is not the complete solution for torrents, but seriously, BRING THE NEW THREATS NOW. We need to evolve past this point so that corporations and government figure out that they cannot win period.
Once we get to that point, it will be the end-game. The final decision. Outlaw encryption or let it remain free?
We need to get to that point sooner rather than later because it as that point, the point being the truly logical conclusion of our path, that our destiny will be decided with how we treat communications and the sharing of information in this brave new world.