RIAA Secret Meeting

[Derek Fawcus]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:26:24AM +0100, Donald ramsbottom wrote:
>  "The new generation of rogue file sharing applications have set a
> disturbing precedent.  The encryption technology used is clearly aimed at
> thwarting our anti-piracy operations.  We must go after the parties
> involved, and force them to give up their encryption keys so our
> anti-piracy operations can begin reporting those who infringe upon our
> works to their internetservice providers"

A bit disturbing if they manage to ram their new SSSA (?) law down the
EU's throat,  ala the DMCA equivalent.

One of the good uses for end-to-end encryption (Transport mode IPsec)
is that it should (if it ever gets deployed) force ISPs to provide
what they're meant to - simply bandwidth.

i.e. the games that BT Openworld are alleged to be playing with
restricting the bandwidth available when certain TCP ports are
in use would be unworkable.  Mind - such ISPs might then switch
to bandwidth limiting encrypted transmisions.

dF