BTW IIRC, automated caching of copyrighted content is protected under fair harbour provisions of DMCA. Although that is an American perspective, I believe under NZ copyright law it could be considered "Technical Expert/Archivist" exemption. IANAL however. Any ISP people here who can confirm? -JoelW 2008/11/19 Trevor Lee <trevor(a)spoonman.id.au>
Exetel, an Australian ISP uses P2P caching.
One of their tech's keeps a blog which details their use of their PeerApp setup:
(start at the bottom and work up)
Regards
Trevor
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Cameron Kerr wrote:
I'm updating my labnotes for my network management paper regarding the use
of proxy caches, and previously I have pointed to the possibility of caching peer-to-peer traffic as shown in the paper Deconstructing the Kazaa Network http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=837393
I would like to know whether or not caching of peer-to-peer is something that ISPs actually do today, and if not why not. I imagine there are probably some interesting legal interactions, but I'm eager to find out how industry is moving in this field.
-- Cameron Kerr <ckerr(a)cs.otago.ac.nz> Teaching Fellow, Computer Science, University of Otago
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