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by wmf 3129 days ago
Is there any evidence that ISPs want to do this?

(Hint: ISP didn't block BitTorrent because of the MPAA.)
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pas 3129 days ago
Comcast blocked BitTorrent in 2008.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16691794/net-neutrality-...

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TehCorwiz 3129 days ago
No, but I'm sure that given the right financial incentives (hint: third-party) they'd be open to implementing this in practice.
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gruez 3129 days ago
bitcoin over TOR? bitcoin over IRC? bitcoin over websocket (w/ TLS)? bitcoin over facebook messenger?
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TehCorwiz 3129 days ago
Sure, but closing the default port limits the tech to people with the interest and technical knowledge to proxy it in such a way. ISPs could also do DPI or timing analysis to id the stream and slow or block it. It was tried successfully (by Comcast) on bittorrent in the the early 00's and is one of the things that triggered the whole Title II fight in the first place.
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gruez 3129 days ago
>It was tried successfully (by Comcast) on bittorrent in the the early 00's and is one of the things that triggered the whole Title II fight in the first place.

torrents are hard to hide because no matter how much encryption/obfuscation you do, you can't hide gigabytes of data being transferred between residential IPs, using random ports. bitcoin uses megabytes of data per hour, which means it's much easier to use stenography to hide it.

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