Wednesday, February 20th 2008

BitTorrent Developers Find Ways to Circumvent ISP Blocking Measures

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zekrahminator
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TorrentFreak summed up the gist of this story in a short paragraph.
Several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs. This new form of encryption will be implemented in BitTorrent clients including uTorrent, so Comcast subscribers are free to share again.
Basically, ISPs like Comcast block piracy by banning the extensions BitTorrent trackers use. BitTorrent clients are currently adapting to a new file extension, so that Comcast subscribers are once again free to download and share whatever they please freely. Please check the source link for a more detailed description of how the crack worked. TechPowerUp! does not condone piracy.
Source: TorrentFreak

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32 Comments on BitTorrent Developers Find Ways to Circumvent ISP Blocking Measures

#26
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
driver66Ok guys lets not make the mistake of saying all "we" download are linux distros and such :laugh: That is laughable !!! 99.999999% of ALL torrents are pirated content....And I am 1 of them ,,,no denying here:toast: But all this hoopla about "linux distro's" is :roll:
Yeah so? I use torrents for Linux distros, and video sharing. I don't bathe into soap-operas, not much western music, am a doctor so the real pr0n is in the hospital, don't use PS, CS to make a living so opensource alternatives like GIMP are all I'll ever need....= no serious need for piracy at all though I admit I used pirated software, as of now, none.
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#27
ChillyMyst
driver66Ok guys lets not make the mistake of saying all "we" download are linux distros and such :laugh: That is laughable !!! 99.999999% of ALL torrents are pirated content....And I am 1 of them ,,,no denying here:toast: But all this hoopla about "linux distro's" is :roll:
acctualy i think there was a study out theres someplace that said it was 98% of torrent and p2p traffic was piracy, the rest was leigal.
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#28
candle_86
and im in the 2% i have never illeagly download from a torrent
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#29
Mussels
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candle_86and im in the 2% i have never illeagly download from a torrent
yeah, hack your neighbours wireless - technically, that makes THEM download it :P
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#30
ChillyMyst
he said he didnt use bittorrent, dosnt mean hes not a limewire or ed2k dork ;)
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#31
driver66
You all got the point of my post i'm sure :toast:
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#32
candle_86
ChillyMysthe said he didnt use bittorrent, dosnt mean hes not a limewire or ed2k dork ;)
:D

im not denying or confirming, i plead the 5th :D

but shoot for Kazza Lite and WinMX and ill confirm but that was back in 05, oh how i miss WinMX
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