You could do something like that, like Fon tried to do some time back in the US and parts of Europe with WiFi (whatever happened to that? I wound up reformatting my router and using standard images because their OS was so unstable).

Or you could do the spare parts thing with Grid / Distributed Computing.

Just sayin'.

Not surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal has this completely wrong.

The DPI software/hardware does *not* do the broadband filtration that the WSJ says it does. At SALabs, our R&D arm of the SiliconANGLE blog, we've done some pretty extensive research, and it's plain to us (and likely most of the IT audience here at Slashdot) that the type of censorship taking place in Iran is unsophisticated and isn't the result of DPI techniques.

We have several articles going into this matter on the site.
(http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5972) (http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5925) and (http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5919).

The bottom line is that this stuff is good old fashioned gateway blocking of addresses. The DPI software that Nokia sells is for mobile network packet shaping only, and not useful for censoring an entire country's information infrastructure.

Actually, I must say that a number of my friends who would otherwise be quite prolific pirates have completely refrained from file sharing utilities, and have turned to much safer methods of inducting music into their sizeable collections (15,000 + songs). I wouldn't exactly say it impinges on their conscious, per se, but laws and precedents in the audio arena are, unfortunately, having an effect on behavior. /rizzn