I will not dive deep into the technical issues as it would take a whole lot of 'what ifs' and 'What nots' to predict what technology could and would be implemented at some stage to counter illegal filesharing.īut the parent post adds a very interesting point: Glad to see 2 well formulated posts on the subject. Now if you disagree with my assessment, please provide a more detailed technical explanation of how such control can be exerted other than superficial observation that corporations own the pipes and governments can exert control over corporations. It IS wholly impractical for authorities to police the net as they will never be able to take the steps necessary to accomplish their goals as it would hurt more than help. Please note that I am not writing this in support of The Pirate Bay or IP Piracy in general, but only to point out that your statement is just not factually correct. As long as a SINGLE country allows connections of any kind to a restricted network, while also not being restricted from the rest of the countries, people WILL be able to establish connections to the undesirables. With all due respect, the 'Grand Redundancy' claims are valid. What do you do about mirrors? What about VPN connections to servers that will host torrents and reside on wholly different networks outside of your control? How do stop the fact that somebody on the Internet can create a secure session with somebody else that does not have the same restrictions on their own network? Now I know what you may want to say, that you can just block all traffic going to TPB's servers. When you can't decrypt, sometimes you can tell what is going on by looking at other factors and clues. all raise the level of difficulty significantly which necessitates the next step.Ģ) Behavioral Analysis. It's hard to tell with 100% accuracy what is going on with a session when you cannot read the packets. There are several challenges to overcome if you are going to effectively block anything:ġ) Encryption. So what do you have left as options to eliminate only the 1% of the traffic which is undesirable? Packet Inspection. You would eliminate 1% undesirable traffic while also eliminating 99% of all the desirable traffic. You just cannot simply turn off a route and eliminate all flow to another network (which can affect a whole country) as often it would be like shooting a fly with a cannon. If this were true, then yes you would be right, a large amount of control could be exerted by governments and the corporations which control the highways and intersections. At the intersections you could be checking the identity of every person and searching the contents of their bags. You could say that the pipes and their routers would be like large highways with millions of people walking. However, there is a HUGE difference between controlling the pipe and controlling what goes through the pipe. You are not incorrect in stating that governments and businesses have a large control over the pipes themselves. You are oversimplifying things a great deal. The world will be a better place for most people if the freedom that generally exists on the Internet is preserved, but if that freedom is abused by a vocal minority, the rest of us will all get shafted by the consequences.Įvery major international pipe is controlled by one of a pretty small group of major telecomms companies

Sorry, but it's neither above international agreements nor above individual countries enforcing their own laws and cutting off anyone who doesn't play nicely with their efforts to do so. You can make defiant noises about how impractical it would be for the authorities to police everything and how important net neutrality is, but TPB is the enemy here, because by its very existence and public position on openly breaking the law in most countries, it provides all the evidence that politicians and their major contributors need to justify not fighting for net neutrality and pushing for ever more surveillance and control.Ī few years ago, there was all this talk about the Internet being some new, special place.

Despite the grand redundancy claims, there are plenty of single points of failure that will disconnect, or at least seriously inhibit, flow of data to or from entire countries. Every major international pipe is controlled by one of a pretty small group of major telecomms companies. Companies like Google have the resources to index the entire web. Here's a newsflash for you: the authorities and big business have way, way more control over the Internet than you appear to realise.

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