ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads

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The advent of BitTorrent was a cause for celebration for people who wished to share large files very quickly, but Internet Service Providers did not

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Unlike Allot Communications, I hope ISPs are technology savvy enough to learn disrupting efficient transfer protocols would damage their broadband business & other internet businesses in the future!

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[Solar_]

I work at a large ISP and we have means to get the relevant packet and redirect it anywhere, for exp: We can give priority to local users way above
abroad sources,so that you will basically download from people in your country. This saves alot of bandwidth abroad, even encrypted packets have headers and destination is known. Also ISPs welcome filesharing
as it brings more demand for bandwidth, thus more money to ISP. Of course,
"officially" they are against it, bla,bla,bla. But the biggest income came since
P2P started.

 

[razulli]

I agree. It's only the resellers that try to get rid of p2p. If it's an official provider, lets say T-Online they don't care.

 

[bL0]

and because of this, resellers try to get rid of leechers..

For example 1&1 in germany. They offer € 100 if you go to an other provider...

bullsh*t

 

[cateye]

Some ISPs dislike P2P as it hits them where there are ineffeciencies in their business models and problems with current contracts.

For some time, it will be possible to pick out BT traffic. There will be specific things about BT encrypted traffic that will identify it as such. I'd assume that gradually those will be reduced, and ISPs will be left with profiling of traffic. There are other encrypted protocols that BT could be made to look more like, things that ISPs can't block without great repercussions.