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On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: <snip> > ISPs probably don't have an interest in BT caching because of 1) > cost of ownership, 2) legal concerns (if an ISP cached a publicly > distributed copy of some pirated software, who's then responsible?), They cache the web, which has the same chance of being illegal content. <snip> > The result of these items already been shown: BT encryption. I > personally know of 3 individuals who have their client to use en- > cryption only (disabling non-encrypted connection support). For > security? Nope -- solely because their ISP uses a rate limiting > device. Yep. Users will find a way to maintain functionality. > Bram Cohen's official statement is that using encryption to get > around this "is silly" because "not many ISPs are implementing > such devices" (maybe not *right now*, Bram, but in the next year > or two, they likely will): > > http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/29886.html I don't know of many user ISPs which don't implement them, you kidding?:) <snip> > So my question is this: how exactly do we (as administrators of > systems or networks) get companies, managers, and even other > administrators, to think differently about solving this? > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | >
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