And lo and behold after only six weeks the coders at Newzbin2 have managed to do just that – circumvent BT’s filters and allowing those on BT to use their service once again to download (mostly) copyrighted material. Just as the technological game of cat and mouse has gone on since the days of Napster with digital file sharing, it continues apace. The problem with this round is, however, that the entertainment industry forced an escalation by getting the courts to push for BT these child porn filters, as now the technological precedent has been set – and the filter that has previously been so successful has suddenly gained a gaping hole.
The fallout from digital file sharing has now expanded into affecting the security of much more important areas of actual criminality, and the entertainment industry are to blame as much as the hackers at Newzbin2.
[via TorrentFreak]