* Posts by Peter Rossi

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ISPs demand record biz pays up if cut-off P2P users sue

Peter Rossi
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Go and catch some real criminals!

Another law set to restrict what we can and can't do in our daily lives, just a load more red tape for the police to dredge through.

From a technological standpoint, I would be impressed if this ever got through as the technology investment required by the ISP's would be massive. Thus causing many of the smaller ISP's to have to close. Sure, they could quite easily restrict access to known IP's and restrict the use of know P2P ports. However, what are they going to do about encypted connections, dynamic ports and any other non standard P2P sharing. If the content weren't encrypted, they would have to filter EVERY packet in and out of their network at OSI layer 7. When you consider the bandwidth that the ISP's have and the amount of traffic that flows through them, they'd require a very meaty set of firewalls to control it for them.

Good luck with the legislation, I think they haven't thought about the technological cost to the ISP's at all!