Ares Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 I figure most of us have already heard about this, but I thought I'd post this for those who don't read Digg/Slashdot. The article that there will be restrictions in place that will only allow legal content. This could get interesting if "illegal" content does get through, though. I wonder if the ISP would be liable of copyright infringment in that case?http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/214259 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 If you bothered reading the article at Slyck, you'd realize that the ISP's are sheltered from liability under the 'safe harbor' clause in the DMCA. They don't need to worry about accidentally caching illegal data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ares Posted August 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 Oh, whoops. Didn't know Slyck had it too, though I found where someone linked to it further down in the Slashdot comments. I figured I'd get one of those "if you had read x" comments one way or another, considering how many sites have reported on this (which no, I didn't really bother to read them all). Oh well, thanks for the answer. Perhaps a better quetion would be, if protocol encryption is used, will the ISP still be able to cache the data? Or did I overlook that one as well?-Ares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 They can cache all the data they want, but if you're encrypting, the caching system has no way to determine whether it has the data that you have or not, so protocol encryption should effectively disable CDP from what I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ares Posted August 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 Okay thanks, that's what I thought. Hmm, I guess we will need a list of ISPs that use caching instead of throttling, so people know when not to use encryption, eh?-Ares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJo Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 But also uTorrent has to implement CDP 'Cache Discovery Protocol' for you to be able to use the cacheing system. There is no point to support this until the big ISP's like Rogers to start supporting it, other then that this feature as of now to me is just bloatware as it did not take off yet.I keep hearing that the CDP protocol is open source and what not, but can't find any specs or code for it. Does anyone know where one could find such documentation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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