I read and re-read the decision of the ISP that was going to block RIAA access and setup a honeypot. Wouldn't legitimate users as well find themselves in that honeypot, and thus be blocked, achieving what the RIAA wanted in the first place, to disrupt GNUtella services? Somehow this doesn't make sense to me. Color me dumb. Marc Blitz Macronet.net
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I read and re-read the decision of the ISP that was going to block RIAA access and setup a honeypot.
Wouldn't legitimate users as well find themselves in that honeypot, and thus be blocked, achieving what the RIAA wanted in the first place, to disrupt GNUtella services?
Somehow this doesn't make sense to me. Color me dumb.
by doing the blocking at the ISP level they remove the need for the RIAA to DOS any P2P nodes on their network. it also makes the ISP accountable for any block so a call to their helpdesk of "i can't share my legitimate mp3s" can be resolved locally rather then having to respond "please contact p2p-dos@riaa.org and don't hold your breath". i don't think either solution is desirable but that's another story... marty -- I'm not here. This isn't happening. "How to Disappear Completely" - Radiohead
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:11:14 EDT, blitz <blitz@macronet.net> said:
Wouldn't legitimate users as well find themselves in that honeypot, and thus be blocked, achieving what the RIAA wanted in the first place, to disrupt GNUtella services?
I believe the original honeypot was to be triggered if they caught somebody poking around the Gnutella and then dropping suspicious packets on their network. "Legitimate users" wouldn't find themselves in that situation because they'd only contact the Gnutella side of things and wouldn't be probing the Gnutella host via other means.... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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