It's really annoying when they inject warnings of the "You downloaded so and so TV show illegally".
Comcast, all my p2p traffic is encrypted. How do you know what it is? What're you trying to tell me about the safety of using your pipes for encrypted communication?
Switching to https makes the warnings go away. At least there's that.
(before anyone gets up in arms, I pay for cable as part of my subscription, I just don't have a TV to plug said cable into and I don't like broadcast TV, so i download)
> Comcast, all my p2p traffic is encrypted. How do you know what it is?
1. You start torrenting (over an encrypted connection) a pirated movie
2. A movie studio is connected to the same swarm, advertising chunks of that movie
3. Your client connects to the movie studio's server, giving them your IP address
4. They send a letter to your ISP
Encrypting P2P traffic is pretty much a waste of time. This scenario goes away if you download over a VPN, since the movie studio can't send your ISP the letter.
Or more simply, most trackers (even private ones) haven't picked up that using HTTPS for announce URLS is a good idea. A passive listener can discover what torrents your client is downloading and seeding if they're interested.
I hear people say their "so and so" traffic is encrypted all the time but that doesn't mean it's not trivial to know what you're doing with it. To me encrypting torrent traffic is like encrypting your SSH connection to a machine where everyone has root access. Your ISP might not know what you're doing on the machine, but another guy SSH'd into it can, and copyright enforcement companies will gladly login to find what you've been up to.
Comcast, all my p2p traffic is encrypted. How do you know what it is? What're you trying to tell me about the safety of using your pipes for encrypted communication?
Switching to https makes the warnings go away. At least there's that.
(before anyone gets up in arms, I pay for cable as part of my subscription, I just don't have a TV to plug said cable into and I don't like broadcast TV, so i download)