I see what you are saying. This would be feasible as long as we could reach enough people to do this. I noticed that you underlined very in your last post. How soon do you think it will happen? What influences your thinking in this way? Please let us all know. Also, what scheme do you think they could use to block the ports? Would the ISPs do it individually?

I can think of one thing that the RIAA could do. If they modified a gnutella client, they could load it on several hundred conputers hooked up to the internet. Right now, you're thinking "So What??" But, using this vantage point, they could broadcast random, automatically generated quieries, searches, pings, etc. If they had enough of these clients adding massive amounts of traffic to the network, the network would slow to a crawl. It could clog and and not be worth anything to users. The network would be completely jammed and no one could find anything in their searches.

If they did try to do something like this, their effect could be minimized by blocking the hosts that are doing this. We would have to organize an effort to discover all these "bad broadcasters", and we could tell everyone to block them. Or, we could release a script or executable (with LimeWire's permission of course) to block all the known offenders automatically. This is a rather depressing subject, but I know we should all be actively planning for the future. Any ideas, Kirby?