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This is a bit of a misconception. Copyright holders have always gone after seeders based on people connecting to swarms, tracker info, and crawling DHT. There’s

by Shank 5y ago

This is a bit of a misconception. Copyright holders have always gone after seeders based on people connecting to swarms, tracker info, and crawling DHT. There’s no reason to use DPI when the list of uploaders is just given out by trackers and DHT for free. See: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/Wolchok.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/...

tgragnato 5y ago
Exactly Bittorrent protocol encryption is only useful to protest against the use of DPI for bandwidth shaping, it has no influence on privacy. Even with (the weak) encryption, connections to trackers and DHT nodes are easily identified
- mikro2nd 5y ago
  Thank you for clarifying this!
livueta 5y ago
You're right that is how it generally operates, but in the case of Comcast I think this meme doesn't want to die because in the late 00s Comcast really did do DPI to interfere with torrents: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071029/020756.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071029/020756.shtml Fairly googleable with "Comcast sandvine". Afaik they haven't done anything like that for years, though.