[ILUG] Eircom surrenders

[Michael Watterson]

john Moylan wrote:
> I'm sure it's tempting for the ISP's to generalise that all heavy P2P
> users are doing something illegal. But I'm sure that there are lot's
> of heavy users downloading perfectly legal content. BT is the
> preferred method for distributing things like Linux Disto's. It is
> also used to distribute perfectly legal content from archive.org etc.
>
> J
>
>   
But eircom isn't going to monitor P2P or BT at all. The alternative that 
all the ISPs feared was that they would agree to do such a pointless 
doomed to failure expensive thing.

The 3rd Parties of the Rights Holders are not doing traffic analysis or 
deep packet inspection.
They are peering P2P to catch IPs, thus if it's a Linux ISO it's of no 
interest to them. Similarly if they have honey pots, it's not going to 
be a mirror of heanet server content is it?



-- 
Mike