[ILUG] Eircom surrenders

[Braun Brelin]

Just to add more fuel to an already roaring flame...

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-measures-dont-work-report-shows-090129/

Braun


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Michael Watterson <watty at eircom.net>wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>
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> Mike
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