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03-28-2008, 10:33 AM
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While the MPAA might be ready for ISPs to deploy piracy filters (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/MPAA-Filtering-Pirates-Would-Increase-Capacity-93060), those filters might not be ready for ISPs (http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=148803&). These deep packet inspection services are supposed to use network hardware to identify (and corral or slow) your pirated The Golden Girls DiVX transfers, but a new study of piracy filtering and traffic shaping gear by Internet Evolution (http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=148803&) says many aren't ready for prime time. Of the 28 vendors they asked to participate in testing only five agreed, and only two would let the results be published because the other three didn't like the results.Based on the response to Internet Evolution's ground-breaking test of P2P filters, both ISPs and the music industry will have to wait a while before the power tools they need to beat back bandwidth hogs or stymie copyright violators are widely available. For now, the advantage is with P2P perps that want all-they-can-eat capacity and easy access to pirated materials.
In short, the study found that the marketing of these DPI and traffic shaping platforms exceeds their actual capabilities for many vendors. Only Arbor/Ellacoya and Germany-based ipoque GmbH agreed to results publication, because those were the only vendors whose gear could detect and throttle most P2P protocols with any degree of reliability.
Interestingly, you'll note there's no effort made here to differentiate between legal and copyright-protected P2P transfers. Though addressed briefly in the intro, there doesn't seem to be any test results that show the gears' ability to detect and throttle only copyright-protected P2P traffic. That's supposedly within the base capabilities of deep packet inspection gear. Of the major American ISPs, only AT&T has stated they want to filter pirated material specifically, and they've supposedly been testing a solution from Vobile (http://vobileinc.com/) since last Spring.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/P2P-Filters-Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-93063)
While the MPAA might be ready for ISPs to deploy piracy filters (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/MPAA-Filtering-Pirates-Would-Increase-Capacity-93060), those filters might not be ready for ISPs (http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=148803&). These deep packet inspection services are supposed to use network hardware to identify (and corral or slow) your pirated The Golden Girls DiVX transfers, but a new study of piracy filtering and traffic shaping gear by Internet Evolution (http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=148803&) says many aren't ready for prime time. Of the 28 vendors they asked to participate in testing only five agreed, and only two would let the results be published because the other three didn't like the results.Based on the response to Internet Evolution's ground-breaking test of P2P filters, both ISPs and the music industry will have to wait a while before the power tools they need to beat back bandwidth hogs or stymie copyright violators are widely available. For now, the advantage is with P2P perps that want all-they-can-eat capacity and easy access to pirated materials.
In short, the study found that the marketing of these DPI and traffic shaping platforms exceeds their actual capabilities for many vendors. Only Arbor/Ellacoya and Germany-based ipoque GmbH agreed to results publication, because those were the only vendors whose gear could detect and throttle most P2P protocols with any degree of reliability.
Interestingly, you'll note there's no effort made here to differentiate between legal and copyright-protected P2P transfers. Though addressed briefly in the intro, there doesn't seem to be any test results that show the gears' ability to detect and throttle only copyright-protected P2P traffic. That's supposedly within the base capabilities of deep packet inspection gear. Of the major American ISPs, only AT&T has stated they want to filter pirated material specifically, and they've supposedly been testing a solution from Vobile (http://vobileinc.com/) since last Spring.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/P2P-Filters-Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-93063)