Comments on: ISP modifying .torrent file contents

By: Spyros

Spyros — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:36:47 +0000

That is pretty interesting and i don’t really think it can harm the users in any case, as long as they remain anonymous.

It’s funny, though, what the ISPs come up with in order to save bandwidth

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:11:47 +0000

Uhhh
Being a user of another ISP in Israel who does this (or something similar), I rather enjoy it.
But it’s far from being a new technique. There are a few caching products used by ISPs to cache bit torrent, ed2k and other types of p2p content.
So far, their cache gives me great download speeds, and legit content (fair use uncopyrighted material of course).

By: Spearmint gum

Spearmint gum — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:14:15 +0000

The RIAA just needs to muscle an ISP to add THEIR tracker. Then it gets interesting.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:23:03 +0000

Similar goals (reduce bandwidth costs), though instead of managing connections between local peers (or requiring support for a new protocol), Bezeq’s cache acts as a single high-speed seed.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:12:52 +0000

And yet ADESE and UVE managed to convict a Spanish admin, for something that is technically legal.

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-admin-convicted-for-crime-he-didnt-commit-090415/

It’s actually kind of messed up — the admin pleaded guilty to something he would not get convicted of, to avoid dealing with followup legal proceedings in the civil courts.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:33:18 +0000

No, you are quite wrong Dan, in fact copyright is a very important.. AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

We are being attacked by the suicidal UN!!! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

By: Walter Sear

Walter Sear — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:13:04 +0000

Data isn’t cached. The location of other local users on the torrent are.

By: Terry Robinson

Terry Robinson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:44:47 +0000

This seems similar to the P4P that Verizon tried. Is this different?

By: SBrickey

SBrickey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:38:12 +0000

who’s to say they’re not adding trackers for the purposes of TRACKING who is downloading, for the purpose of reporting this to the RIAA?

or what if they simply remove all of the trackers from the list?

Obviously good tracker websites list the addresses, such that they may be added back… and I imagine the next gen clients will start validating the integrity of the .torrent (file hash).

By: randomnut

randomnut — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:14:28 +0000

Finally someone did something good.