Cliffe

“Technology is improving all the time. Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.” - Stephen Conroy

As a musician who shares my music using bittorrent and other peer-to-peer protocols I hope that the filter does not filter out legitimate uses of what is a legal protocol!

As a computer security researcher I will point out that as bittorrent traffic can be encrypted there is no way to actually tell if the traffic is legal or not. That does not justify denying use of the technology altogether. The same goes for web traffic – using encryption (and/or proxies) defeats any filtering in place. There are always ways to circumvent content filters. As you know*.

This scheme is a waste of money, infringes on my ability to act legally, and is completely useless at stopping any informed user from accessing whatever content they want.

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