One of the problems I have seen with 'anonymizers' is that they appreciably slow down the transfer rates of uploads or downloads--simply due to the nature of how they operate. And depending on how badly those monitoring traffic want to trace--lose their effectiveness as more end user clients use them. And after a bit, those using multinodal proxies begin to attract attention to themselves. You can run, but one truly can't hide...
I am not really concerned here about the business model of the recording industry, P2P systems, or who considers what fucking illegal. John is right--we hear dire pronouncements all the time about that--and only a few of most clueless are the ones made high profile examples of. The internet wheel makes a turn and some new system is in place. A techno version of Whack-A-Mole.
What I am questioning here is what appears to be a much more sophisticated system of content identification and flagging. Similar to the face recognition system deployed by Farcebook for tagging purposes--such deployments bother me on two levels. First is the degree of active monitoring (as opposed to passive logging) by private concerns--and the inherent mistakes that such systems will make due to their very nature.
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