sandvine

[Hardcore Games]

Many open source repositories and the internet archive all use torrents as a way to reduce operating costs

Along comes Sandvine which is used by ISPs to disrupt torrents on the assumption it's all illegal. I refer the reader to the above open source, such as Ubuntu and many other distributions.

Sandvine works by illegal surveillance on traffic and then it injects reset packets. Encrypted communications is of no help as Sandvine runs a hidden tracker. So they commit a crime to attack a torrent swarm. Finding sandvine trackers is possible but development of effective countermeasures has been slow.

Meanwhile open source suffers.

 

[AusWolf]

I've got no issues running torrent with my ISP so far, touch wood.

 

[Hardcore Games]

I use Linux for development and testing as open source is growing in popularity

 

[1freedude]

I think this a a basis for the issue:
Quoted from a patent listing....US7032023B1
"......The counter/throttle API 724B is configured to monitor the number of times a particular sender 710 has connected to the proxy mail server 724. The counter/throttle API 724B may be configured to increment a counter as new connections are attempted or established and to decrement the counter as existing connections are dropped. In one implementation, the counter/throttle API 724B prevents the establishing of additional connections above a certain threshold number, which may be configurable. In other implementations, the counter/throttle API 724B may prevent connections exceeding a certain threshold from sending mail or may alternatively send information to another entity (e.g., a system manager) concerning connections by or messages from senders that would exceed the threshold number. The counter/throttle API 724B may take rate into consideration by discounting or crediting connection attempts made before a fixed or configureable time has passed, or by judging sender activity based on temporal considerations.
........"

There is a mega shit ton to read about this topic. I started here:

CA2733172C - A system and method for detecting sources of abnormal computer network messages - Google Patents

A system for detecting a source or destination of abnormal message traffic on a network, the system having: an abnormality detection engine configured to track messages between a source and a destination and store the source and destination of a message as a pair, wherein the abnormality...

patents.google.com

 

[Hardcore Games]

All I know is that today seeds tend to be far afield which suggests that trolls have been intimidating homies for too long.

No surprise that some seeds are found in Russia, Bulgaria and some other malcontent locations. It is eye opening how many seeds there are lurking around in the Ukraine as well.

Disappointed to see so few seeds for open source distributions as well.