Is file sharing going to end today?

[mjmacky]

I don't know what you're trying to say other than your ISP uses a van to carry internets information. That's old school

P.S. ask them if I can borrow their van.

[manker]

You can have it after me.
Might have to clean the empty wrappers out, though.

[anon]

The ISPs are likely to be loking at known hash files, and it won't matter if you are getting the files from Usenet, BT, or your grandmother. A hash is a hash.

If they're going to bother to collect the many different hashes (or equivalent) associated with copyrighted material across popular filesharing networks and protocols, that might be a possibility.

Unless you're planning to connect to your VPN before you connect to your ISP. Which is, of course, impossible.

It is indeed possible to use DPI to decrypt certain kinds of encryption on the fly, and analyze the raw contents. However, like megabyteme, I hope think large scale usage of such mechanisms by ISPs would prove impractical for the time being, due to the required processing power - hence a VPN should provide acceptable security. But that's all theory.

I'm just going to carry on as I always have done, pretty much. Altho' I'm from the UK and I don't think it's as big of a deal over here.
Mind, my ISP blocked tpb in the last day or so

There's a couple of reverse proxies created specifically for the purpose of unblocking TPB, and of course you can also use regular ones.

[manker]

If they're going to bother to collect the many different hashes (or equivalent) associated with copyrighted material across popular filesharing networks and protocols, that might be a possibility.

Unless you're planning to connect to your VPN before you connect to your ISP. Which is, of course, impossible.

It is indeed possible to use DPI to decrypt certain kinds of encryption on the fly, and analyze the raw contents. However, like megabyteme, I hope think large scale usage of such mechanisms by ISPs would prove impractical for the time being, due to the required processing power - hence a VPN should provide acceptable security. But that's all theory.

I'm just going to carry on as I always have done, pretty much. Altho' I'm from the UK and I don't think it's as big of a deal over here.
Mind, my ISP blocked tpb in the last day or so

There's a couple of reverse proxies created specifically for the purpose of unblocking TPB, and of course you can also use regular ones.

Yeah, I just meant that the UK ISPs are starting to do stuff rather than pay lip-service. Which is a new thing.

As to the encryption, I didn't realise that VPNs all did that. I've used them before and had assumed it was a service that you could have but that you didn't necessarily get. But, fuck, it's great if it's standard. And what you say about ISPs decrypting data does seem particularly unlikely at this stage.
Or any stage, really.

[anon]

As to the encryption, I didn't realise that VPNs all did that. I've used them before and had assumed it was a service that you could have but that you didn't necessarily get. But, fuck, it's great if it's standard.

For the original purpose of a VPN, i.e. connecting to a remote private network using the Internet merely as a sort of ultra-long network cable, encryption is optional although encouraged. For a commercial service, it is probably the selling point.

[manker]

As to the encryption, I didn't realise that VPNs all did that. I've used them before and had assumed it was a service that you could have but that you didn't necessarily get. But, fuck, it's great if it's standard.

For the original purpose of a VPN, i.e. connecting to a remote private network using the Internet merely as a sort of ultra-long network cable, encryption is optional although encouraged. For a commercial service, it is probably the selling point.

Yeah. I guess it is.
The selling point for me, although I used a free version, was to obfuscate my IP more reliably than a proxy so I could still troll participate in discussions on forums that had, very harshly, banned my black arse.

This has actually been something of a theme regarding my VPN experience over the eons.

[cola]

Remember that default cipher on OpenVPN is Blowfish. It's still in use, but you should make sure whatever VPN provider you're using provides something a lil stronger.