Michael Watterson wrote:
[snip]
> Instead the Rights Holders are NOT looking at traffic. Their agents run
> honeypots, connect as P2P clients etc and then they know exactly what
> material is exchanged and encryption or ports used doesn't matter.
[snip]
*sigh* - if only this were the case. It appears (from the PoV of an outsider
looking in) that a number of different techniques are used to gather
information on what file sharing is going on, and some further techniques are
used to verify that the material being shared IS what it says on the time (and
not, for example, a rather large Word document that I have decided to share
with a filename of 'SomeGreatMovie.avi')
It further appears that these techniques give varying degrees of accuracy, at
varying times, from varying perspectives. They are nowhere close to 100%
accurate (though I have not gathered statistics to indicate my assessment of
accuracy.)
To have an agreement, even an implied agreement, that these warnings shall be
passed on is one thing - but to agree to terminate service based on these
reports which have provably dubious accuracy is another thing entirely.
To suggest that there is some technology which can accurately identify the
illegal redistribution of content is misleading, at best.
Best regards,
-->Gar
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