How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas 307
Frequent contributor Bennett Haselton writes "With the announcement of
Verizon's "six strikes plan"
for
movie pirates
(which includes reporting users to the RIAA and MPAA),
and content companies continuing to
sue users
en masse for peer-to-peer downloads,
I think it's inevitable that we'll see the rise of p2p software that proxifies your
downloads through other users.
In this model, you would not only download content from other users, but you also use other
users' machines as anonymizing proxies for the downloads, which
would make it impossible for third parties to identify the source or destination of the
file transfer. This would hopefully put an end to the era of movie studios subpoenaing ISPs for the
identities of end users and taking those users to court." Read below for the rest of Bennett's thoughts.