OT: BitTorrent, encryption, traffic shaping and the Internet

[Meng Cheah]

Does anyone know of encrypted bittorrents and traffic shaping?

This appeared in the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4758636.stm

I find downloading isos by BitTorrent slower these days. I thought it 
was dues to traffic shaping by my ISP but if this catches on, I won't be 
surprised that encrypted bittorrents may be declared "illegal".

Excepts from the above article:
"...As of last weekend the three biggest torrent programs carry 
automatic encryption...
However all this made us think the following: if torrent traffic is 30% 
and more of the internet, and it's going encrypted at a rate of knots, 
then where does that leave the spooks, spies and other law enforcement 
professionals who sit around monitoring the internet all day?..."
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