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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The media companies saw a good thing going and as usual are
attempting to leverage it to FUD the general public away from
piracy. But they are johnny-come-latelys to this party.

Well, they're losing a lot of revenue. They've made some
poor decisions about distribution models but that really
doesn't justify stealing from them. There's certainly
precedent for ISPs to be required by law to capture some
data and turn it over to law enforcement. I think that's
probably the correct model for dealing with pirates, but
whatever. I'm an arms dealer in this war and don't identify
with either side particularly strongly.

A simplification. You must observe all packets in a link for
this to work, you may not have to inspect the entire contents
of each packet, only the ones of interest. But you do have to
examine every packet to see if it's a packet of interest.

The expense associated with packet inspection on hardware
that does packet inspection comes from "deep packet"
inspection and stateful inspection at variable offsets. You
only perform that kind of inspection in a subset of a
particular stream before determining that it is or is not of
interest. There is more to it than that, in terms of the
capabilities of the hardware, but not that changes the basic
description.

Further, when you have redundant paths in the large backbones

Well, that's your problem. Part of your problem, anyway.
There's no interest in putting these things on backbones.
You're making some architectural assumptions that are simply
incorrect. I wonder why you didn't think about the various
possibilities for sensor placement rather than jumping to
conclusions and focusing on one design that's flat wrong.

Kidding! I don't wonder.

I'll note that while you go on and on and on and on and on
and on and on and jesus christ do you go on and on, you
failed to identify the actual problem with the proposal. At
some point people involved in piracy are going to figure out
how to do encryption in a non-moronic way. Impressive,
*Ted!*
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