Piracy Summit Speakers

[Paul Markham]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

At some point, the ISPs will end up being forced to take action to avoid legal liablity. Many ISPs already block standard outgoing email ports to avoid simple minded spammers, so in some ways they are already controlling and checking what their clients do. Examining at least in passing all non-port80 traffic would likely be a good way to spot people serving files, and then you can check to see what files they are offering. You don't have to check every data packet of every user, just run a big sample, find out who is doing what, and then look at them more closely.

The traffic shaping software has been pretty effective (read so effective people noticed) so it wouldn't be hard to use that same sort of data to target network users and check to see if they have potentially illegal content.

P2P isn't that easy to hide, no matter how much they try.

I agree with you. The Internet was set up as a free area and it's been abused ever since. The days of it remaining free are numbered or the money that could be made will be lost.

So what if it's tough to upload or send emails. That means less people stealing content and less people sending spam.

AND MORE PEOPLE MAKING MONEY.

I'm not technical but I do know the Internet could be a wonderful tool to generate vast amounts of income for the West. Only if it's regulated. Unregulated it's a money pit.