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Re: Comcast censors the Bible


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:08:11 +0200

* Sonny Discini:

I can remember many people asking for ISPs to start blocking specific
type of traffic, especially traffic that could be used to spread
malware, etc.. Now that it's happening, where does it stop? Dangerous
waters...

From a malware perspective, Bittorrent is as dangerous as HTTP because
it lacks a search service.  Those torrent search services could at least
check in theory that something which promises to be an MP3 file is not
in fact an executable.

Other file sharing protocols offer a distributed search service and much
more difficult to control.
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