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Originally Posted by die5el
They'll have to prove you're downloading illegal material. if you're using torrents and have forced encryption then i don't think it can be determined what you're downloading other than the fact it's bittorrent traffic. If they were to do this then alot of isp would go out of business.
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Except for the fact you're still listed in the peer list for the torrent.
Encrypting torrent traffic is ONLY good for avoiding traffic shaping (and even then sophisticated traffic shaping that monitors the traffic patterns will still detect it) it will not stop you from being caught downloading things you shouldn't be.
Encrypted newsgroup traffic is an entirely different story though, to find out what you're downloading from them they'd have to get a court order to get the logs from the newsgroup providers, they can't just go in with a "we think you're hosting copyright material, tell us what everyone is downloading" warrant, because no court would ever give one of those, they'd have to individually request the records of specific individuals, and for each one of those they have to show probable cause, and "oh my, you've been downloading a ton of data off giganews!" is not probable cause.