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   Encrypt or Interleave

   

   Anonymous, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 6:12am

   
   

   Wow. People might actucally have a reason to start using encryption. Cool.
   
   Although, chaning the byte orders of an MP3s/DivXs before you send it would probably be just as effective against a system like this and could be done in the P2P clients with very little overhead. And chaging byte orders isn't illegal anywhere - yet.
   
   Another option would be to encrypt the files with a random 32-bit key and NOT share the key. The clients would then have to brute force the key. Fast and easy on most PCs, slow and expensive to do on the network level.

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   Useful Technology

   

   Beck, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 6:24am

   
   

   I think they should also intercept and kill Internet traffic that contains bad words, dirty pictures, and email from married men to unmarried women.

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   Re: Encrypt or Interleave

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 8:26am

   
   

   Another option would be to encrypt the files with a random 32-bit key and NOT share the key
   
   Or you could implement a simple 4-bit key and then sue any company that develops software that 'decrypts' the key for violating the DMCA. It's always beautiful when you can use the other guy's tactics against him.

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   Re: Encrypt or Interleave

   

   AMetamorphosis, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 8:40am

   
   

   I LOVE your thinking !
   Perfect idea !

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   No Subject Given

   

   AMetamorphosis, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 8:46am

   
   

   This is a potentially dead issue simply because implementation would have to occur by the ISP's and I don't think they will voluntarily do so. If they try to make it law, we can work now to stop this from going forth.

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   This just won't happen....

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 9:20am

   
   

   ISPs won't implement this, they know that the major reason for the broadband surge is P2P - jees they even advertise "download music faster"!
   
   How many people a fscked off that their ISP blocks port 80/25, if you block P2P traffic, whilst at the same time slowing other traffic, it would be by, by broadband.
   
   You could just use simply ROT13 (rotate bits) to circumvent this, or build an SSH client/server into the next KazaA Lite K++ ;)

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   Re: This just won't happen....

   

   Joe Schmoe, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 12:35pm

   
   

   Why would this have to happen at the isp level? Couldn't it be done at a [larger] pipe ahead of them in the food chain?

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   Re: Encrypt or Interleave

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 12th, 2003 @ 3:34am

   
   

   6 degrees of seperation + multiple instances of WASTE.
   
   All your musics are belong to us.
   
   Have a nice day RIAA and be sure to change your lame business model while passing through the threshold.

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   Re: Useful Technology

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 12th, 2003 @ 3:37am

   
   

   > [..] email from married men to unmarried women. < br>
   Oh good, e-mail from married men to married women is still alright... you had be scared there for a minute.
   
   Well... it's like a friend of my once said about relationships: When you move into a new aparement, you don't move all your shit on to the streat and then start looking for a new aparement.

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    a day late and a doller short

    

    Anonymous Coward, Sep 12th, 2003 @ 3:42am

    
    

    Uh, P2P caches are already here... and ISPs are using them to reduce traffic by *facilitating* sharing. Why on earth would they invest in a technology that actually works against their already substational investment?
    
    Oh, let me guess... they use it or the RIAA will sue them?

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