Some paranoia on P2P sharing and in general goverment (I’m still sharing anyway)
It repeated these from the Emule Forums
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If you found anything violating copyright in the content DB then you can also contact me and I’ll remove it ASAP but like Paco said eMule has nothing to do with the content found on the ed2k network. 
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Like the RIAA/MPAA/ other monopolist copyright mob won’t give a damn whether emule has anything to do with the content found on the ed2k network. They care that Emule is open source and non-profit and they care that even if Emule was shut down, one or more of the mods would take over and its probably in another country….
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Spymule is old???? Or did they buy the rights to it and maintain it as a proprietary product (which is illegal but like the emule people will be able to do anything about it). Thats why they have NDAs / confidentiality agreements. They retain IP value for the corporation (because IP value is dependent on exclusivity), and help cover up currupt, vicious and/or illegal acts of the corporation. Goverment equivilent is the ‘package’ that comes with a security clearence but its backed by jail time in addition to lawsuits and possible blacklisting. So SpyMule RIAA edition and SpyMule MPAA edition are sticking around and are very updated and highly proprietary and anybody that leaks it is it big big trouble (there seems to be a lot of DVDscrs though which I think is a unwritten/unofficial form of viral marketing and not true leaks but still illegal).
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Also Microsoft utterly despises open source. Nearly every highly certified (MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA…) micrsoft person is well brainwashed that open source is inferior, totally lacks support and customer service (service part is somewhat true), full of security holes, and even some think its totally crinimal.
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I was thinking that the only way that the RIAA can trace emule users is if the emule users connect into a fake server..…or they could have hired a programmer to look at the open source eMule code and create a mod that displayed IP addresses, logged them, and performed WHOIS lookups. *cough* spymule *cough*
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The emule data packets are compressed in ZLIB format, which means that an eavesdropping ISP should have a ZLIB decompressor and the ISP must know also the start of file and end of file of the emule packets..
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Highly possible, but ultimately improbable. What incentive does an ISP have to actively police the content through their pipes? Even though zlib is open source as well and the algorithm is well-known and detecting eMule’s headers is trivial, the processing overhead wouldn’t make sense for their business model.
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BayTSP has mastered deep packet sniffing similar to CacheLogic. ISPs are paid to place their tracking units there and IP blockers are no longer effective. Fortunately, BayTSP isn’t an indiscriminate law enforcement agency and work only for clients that pay them a lot of money. At least, they have poorer ISP coverage than CacheLogic as CacheLogic isn’t out to sue people (ISPs usually PAY CacheLogic to have their sniffer and caching units and often volunteer for sniffers-only).
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Hello from Paris, nice to read you Paco, as usual;
Though desencryption is probably a tool for some, I rest convinced that they don’t even need it to follow up on P2P. New Zealand ISPs already use shaping to limit traffic, for their own reasons. By looking only at individual bills, volumes and time scheds they can deduct more or less what we are doing. They also seem to have a cheap method that, without decoding, checks on same client-server relationships.
ISPs, at least in the west, seem to be more interested in streamlining their traffic on the chapest possible lines, P2P users strain that, I’m quite sure that as the number of file sharing users goes up, the different throttles will become more and more precise.
From that point on, who cares? At least here in France, you only have to be tagged as
a bank frauder
a pedophile,
a narco
a terrorist (foreign, french, or any color)
etc. etc
and the men in blue will physically come and check your HD and put the whole thing in their nice trucks and you with it. From that point on, They may or not lose time with IP adresses, or just grab your contacts and jump back into their (less and less) nice trucks.
From my point of view, the only way around this comes back to use, the more of us sharing, the bigger the truck they need. After breakpoint, they will be better off themselves in the truck.
After all, We already pay dearly for all this, my connection is not cheap, France takes nearly 20% VAT on everything, plus taxes and tithes on things like CDs and electricity (and TV and…) paying a bit more would probably be okay anyway, The biggies are just trying to protect their buck, Billie is protecting his, nobody ever died because of 8-track cassettes
Just rant anyway
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In the USA, the FBI comes with a protable HD copying/analytical unit that fits in a 6″x8″ case (may need more than 1 to fit everything) and comes in on a patriot-act enabled ’sneak and peak’ search and copies everything you got at a low-level sector-by-sector basis (Most PCs support USB-booting theseday; low-level to get ‘deleted’ files) and you don’t even ever know they were there so your rich mob bosses or family members can’t hinder their ‘investigation’ in court. They reallyl avoid taking anything but if they do, (usually if they cannot copy the hard drive(s)) they will stage it as a burglary and you won’t be getting it back. you could videotape the sneak and peak and try to go to court and the court clerk/judge will totally ignore you because its legal and the ‘probable cause’ documentation will be classified (at least confidential) for several years.
