"jim" <jim@home.net> wrote in message
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> (from http://www.11alive.com/tech/article_...storyid=105115)
>
> AP Tests Comcast's File-Sharing Filter
>
> ... An AP reporter attempted to download, using file-sharing program
> BitTorrent, a copy of the King James Bible
> ...
> We picked the Bible for the test because it's not protected by
> copyright and the file is a convenient size.
> ...

Another possible reason for choosing the KJV Bible is because it makes
a good headline:

"Comcast blocks users from reading Bible!"

<smile>
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

"Chris Cowles" <NoSpam@ForMe.Net> wrote in message
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> "jim" <jim@home.net> wrote in message
> news:c6MSi.2995$b9.923@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> > (from http://www.11alive.com/tech/article_...storyid=105115)
> >
> > AP Tests Comcast's File-Sharing Filter
> >
> > ... An AP reporter attempted to download, using file-sharing program
> > BitTorrent, a copy of the King James Bible
> > ...
> > We picked the Bible for the test because it's not protected by
> > copyright and the file is a convenient size.
> > ...
>
> Another possible reason for choosing the KJV Bible is because it makes
> a good headline:
>
> "Comcast blocks users from reading Bible!"
>
> <smile>

Exactly. It was a carefully selected choice designed
to elicit maximum outrage.

Avoid facts and cloud the real issue with tons & tons
of irrelevant & emotional blather.

Just like our government.


> --
> Chris Cowles
> Gainesville, FL
>
>

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> "Chris Cowles" <NoSpam@ForMe.Net> wrote in message
> news:RsNSi.1394$8G5.964@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
>> "jim" <jim@home.net> wrote in message
>> news:c6MSi.2995$b9.923@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>> > (from http://www.11alive.com/tech/article_...storyid=105115)
>> >
>> > AP Tests Comcast's File-Sharing Filter
>> >
>> > ... An AP reporter attempted to download, using file-sharing program
>> > BitTorrent, a copy of the King James Bible
>> > ...
>> > We picked the Bible for the test because it's not protected by
>> > copyright and the file is a convenient size.
>> > ...
>>
>> Another possible reason for choosing the KJV Bible is because it makes
>> a good headline:
>>
>> "Comcast blocks users from reading Bible!"
>>
>> <smile>
>
> Exactly. It was a carefully selected choice designed
> to elicit maximum outrage.
>
> Avoid facts and cloud the real issue with tons & tons
> of irrelevant & emotional blather.

Sure, they used the Bible to lure readers into the story (after all it is
harder and harder to get a reader to read a news story these days without
some drunken celebrity in the headline).

But, that does not lessen the impact that this blocking behavior is
currently having on legitimate torrents (like World of Warcraft that uses
torrents to distribute the updates to WoW that are typically 100's of Mbs in
size).

This action is like stopping all mail from UPS because UPS has been used to
send illegal parcels. It hurts everyone and only slows the parcels for a
short time.

Who's really behind this anyway? Is it Comcast? I hardly think they are
stabbing themselves in the back without some help from the RIAA - after all
Comcast recently announced a new 150 Mb/sec cable modem for their customers.
Now, why would a company engineer a 150 Mb/s cable modem for its users and
simultaneously throttle the bandwidth of users using bittorrent clients?

My suspicion is that the recording/movie industry has a hand in this little
fiasco.

It's time that media outlets and software distributors face the facts that
the era of media ownership is over. It's time for a new approach to
capitalizing on the media that they produce.

They've had a nice ride (the software, music, movie and recording
industries). But, like all good things, these must come to an end.

I don't blame them for not wanting it to end. Who wouldn't want to work 3
months (or even 3 years) on a project and get paid over and over for that
same work forever? I sure would.

But, that's not gonna happen anymore. The genie is out of the bottle and
she's not going back. It's time to think creatively of new income models
that harness new technologies - not cling to dying income models and cry out
to the gods of Washington D.C. to save them from technology.

The fact is that Hollywood is run by old people with old ideas. They are
having trouble adapting and (like we all would ) are fighting like hell to
protect their golden geese. The problem is...geese don't live forever.

So, along with their enemies, the RIAA and COMCAST have chosen to drop nukes
on all torrent sharing.

This too shall fail. It is a fairly simple thing to encrypt torrent traffic
the same way that SSL is used to encrypt web pages. Simple changes such as
this will kill COMCAST's impersonation and reject packet sending scheme
almost as fast as they enacted it.

But, it is fun to watch.......

jim

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:08:17 -0400, Chris Cowles wrote:

> "jim" <jim@home.net> wrote in message
> news:c6MSi.2995$b9.923@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>> (from http://www.11alive.com/tech/article_...storyid=105115)
>>
>> AP Tests Comcast's File-Sharing Filter
>>
>> ... An AP reporter attempted to download, using file-sharing program
>> BitTorrent, a copy of the King James Bible ...
>> We picked the Bible for the test because it's not protected by
>> copyright and the file is a convenient size. ...
>
> Another possible reason for choosing the KJV Bible is because it makes a
> good headline:
>
> "Comcast blocks users from reading Bible!"
>
> <smile>

While this is bad, one can go to a site like Biblegateway and read it the
intarweb. Try even just reading a bible online in Saudi Arabia. They'll
probably throw you in jail and flog you.