The part of the UK Digital Economy Act designed to discourage illegal downloading has inadvertently initiated furious discussion about how best to anonymize Bit Torrent and other file sharing traffic. Only this morning an article on the Register speculated that the SeedF*cker code, originally considered an exploit, could be used to disguise the IP address of a server hosting illegal content. Although many commentators were quick to dispute this, it does appear that there are plenty of ideas out there on how to beat the snoopers.
Not surprisingly, many proposed solutions are based around encryption and VPNs but there are also more novel suggestions such as routing all traffic via countries with strong data protection laws or dividing files into extremely small chunks making them hard to identify. Some companies already claim to offer solutions.
There is also the so called darknet which offers solutions for remaining anonymous.
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