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How do providers check that the traffic is BitTorrent? I've always wondered.
by Pooge 5y ago
How do providers check that the traffic is BitTorrent? I've always wondered.
- sfe22 5y agoIt says they will use firewall, so i would assume blocking the default port and maybe known trackers.
- bravetraveler 5y agoTrackers are usually relatively well known and traffic to those specifically may be dropped Otherwise, packet inspection on network devices should be able to discern the traffic. I'm not well versed in this area anymore, but you can tell from the contents/patterns of packets that this source and that destination are using a given protocol. I don't believe this type of traffic is encrypted - and the VPN provider has to decapsulate the traffic at some point :)
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoI heard sometimes they are part of the peers upload/downloading the torrent content and they just get a list of all the other peers they're connected to and send DMCAs to each of them. edit: I misread your comment. I was talking about the copyright holders not VPN providers.