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 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....