yellowgirlnc <yellowgirlnc@yahoo.com> wrote in news:SBD3i.873$u56.728
@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net:
> Doesn't every client that uploads to me or downloads from me get the
> decrytpion key?

Yep. Encryption offers almost no privacy protection.

> If so, where's the protection in encryption? I'm soooo confused!

The benefits aren't in protection, so much, as circumventing traffic
shaping. An ISP can set up rules that identify BT traffic, and selectively
slow them to the point where BT isn't practical anymore. If the traffic is
encrypted before it leaves my machine, and not decrypted until it reaches
yours, then intermediate ISPs won't be able to identify it as BT traffic,
and won't throttle it.

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