From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy merwin monteiro Subject: Re: filtering .mp3 packets Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:09:37 +0530 Message-ID: <4b0d6e0d050429163925e0450e@mail.gmail.com> References: <001a01c54b7c$6da1b7f0$660aa8c0@descartes2> <427030A8.8020604@comarre.com> <4b0d6e0d050428200525186e50@mail.gmail.com> <42721DEE.7020102@mrmighty.net> <4b0d6e0d0504290824427d7beb@mail.gmail.com> <427257F7.7040800@comarre.com> Reply-To: joy_mm@ieee.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <427257F7.7040800@comarre.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Whether this is a good solution or not depends on what the perceived > problem is. > > If the issue is file sharers tying up bandwidth to the Internet, this is > an excellent approach. It will limit all heavy users indiscriminately, > though, so someone who (say) does a network-based upgrade of his or her > Linux host (an "apt-get upgrade" in Debian terms, or the equivalent for > other distros) or downloads ISO images of Linux-distro CDs will be > limited in the same way as someone doing a lot of music downloads. IMO, a local campus LAN with limited bandwidth, a net upgrade of your system is as bad as p2p dowloading....... as you have mentioned, if bandwidth saving is the only issue, some legit computers can be allocated more b/w for such legitimate reasons. > > If the issue is preventing use of the Internet connection to download > unauthorized copies of copyrighted materials, then this approach is > probably not sufficiently targeted to accomplish what the original > poster requested. It has the "false positive" problem in spades. > Totally agree, but if this problem had a ready solution, Linux based or otherwise, the RIAA would have made it mandatory by now :-) > If the issue is inhibiting on-LAN exchanges of unauthorized copies of > copyrighted materials ... well in that case, this entire discussion's > focus on solutions at the router level is completely misplaced. If that > is the perceived problem (in a college setting, I can easily imagine it > being so, especially of the LAN provides service to dorm rooms), the > solution needs to involve a heavy dose of on-LAN traffic sniffing. Even > talking about that approach requires less abstraction from a particular > LAN implementation then we have had here so far. > >From my experience (being presently in college), I would prefer to burn a CD with 700 MB of songs and distribute it to all the people who need it rather than trying to send it over a LAN..... people who want to do it _will_ find a way to do it...... -- riel: if it were a vax, gcc would probably be an opcode - excerpt from #kernelnewbies - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs