Ladar Levinson has made a courageous choice here.
I applaud his bravery.
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They would be running a torrent client. Not a server.
(Although technically, most torrent clients have a few ports open for other clients to connect to, which sort of makes them servers.)
It doesn't have to be a torrent client though. I can eat up 500Mb of bandwidth just copying a database.
Because my home machine constantly sits with port 3389 open for access. Most people have some sort of port open waiting for inbound connections, because it's a requirement of the software that they run.
I don't see how they can legislate this fairly, without screwing over 98% of ordinary users.
There's an easy way to find out.
Enter a search term into Bing. If it pops up a message, then that item is on the list. You could even automate it like a dictionary attack (Except here we're testing a search term for a positive or negative response.)
Though IANAL, and I don't know how illegal it would be to possess knowledge of the forbidden search terms.
"Browsing history could be matched with interests in categories like technology, sports and cooking"
Yeah.... My browsing history doesn't really cover categories like that. Who knows what kind of stuff it would recommend with El Reg in my browsing history.
You click on one dodgy video on YouTube and suddenly you're getting all sorts of crap "Recommended for you" that you don't want. I fully expect this technology to function in the same way.