On 05/01/2017 08:38 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 05/01/2017 10:36 AM, Razer wrote:
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I don't think there's been a decentralized Internet since AOL first appeared. But it works... For them. Now days Warner, part of AOL Time Warner, seems to sniff all torrent packets going through their portals for Warner content and notifies downstream admins.
A much more economical attack where seed boxes operated by hostile parties record IP addresses of connecting users was the dominant torrent surveillance model for a long time. Typically, a comically self-mutilating corporation (thou shalt not promote our product to a wide audience at no cost to us) would provide a contractor with a list of "intellectual property" items to monitor and report on. Either the contractor would blackmail the account holders at those IP addresses, or refer them to their ISPs for hostile action.
I recall a study from maybe 10 years ago, indicating that then-availble blocklists of known and probable "troll" IPs were around 90% effective.
Got pointers to any more current information, especially regarding inspection of data in transit? Inquiring minds wants to know...
:o)
All I know is that the computer lab for seniors I was volunteering at, which utilizes a local ISP, was notified that SOMEONE using their services had torrented a Warner content file. I assume the upstream provider for the local ISP is AOL which would explain why the only time we were ever notified about a 'torrentviolator' was in regard to Warner content, a music video which could have just as easily been downloaded from YouTube direct using Jdownloader or similar. Rr