Austrailian Govt Considering UK Style ISP Snooping
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You can tell the music & movie industries and the Australian equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA have their filthy little mitts all over the government there. How? Because the Australian government is now looking at (and seriously thinking about copying) the latest insanity that the UK is thinking about where ISPs would be required to cut off Internet access of users caught illegally downloading copyrighted material three times. All I can say is that if they, the UK or any other country tries to enact such a law then the music & movie industry best have it's collective term life insurance policies fully paid up because determined file sharers are going to come up with ways to share files anyway... without fear of getting caught.
Honestly, it's crap anyway. How is an ISP supposed to know if a copyrighted file is being transferred illegally or not? There's plenty of legitimate, legal distribution of copyrighted works going on via p2p networks. How is an ISP going to know which ones are legit and which ones aren't? Answer, they can't know with any certainty.
What's more, now that there is advance warning, by the time something like this is enacted, changes will be introduced into p2p file sharing apps that allow the exchanges of data to be encrypted so that the ISP's have no way to know what is being shared.
Another thing that this is going to do is cause more and more people to look into using freenet for their p2p filesharing needs. Granted, freenet's security is such that it is always going to be slower that conventional p2p, but that security means that ISPs and anybody else has no means of identifying what is being uploaded or downloaded and no means to identify who is inserting or requesting any given file.
In fact, Freenet, if installed on and run from a Truecrypt volume, could be a nearly bulletproof means to share files, publish any information, or maintain 100% anonymous "Flogs" (Freenet Blogs).
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I do not think IP snooping is a good idea at all and should not be considered by any Governmemt or people.
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