How fast are they supposed to send out these "strikes"? Because my sister just downloaded 6 movies not too long ago via torrents, and there has been no decrease in my internet speed. Not to mention, I downloaded some stuff yesterday, and I have not gotten a single notice (like a phone call) about it. I'll see what happens during the rest of the week, but for now, I really don't think my ISP has agreed to this.
Seriously, I can't find anything saying that Century Link has or hasn't agreed. Besides, any other ISP isn't available in my area (since I live out in the rural part of the south...) and only people that live in town can switch ISPs, and people who live outside of towns can only use the ISP that's available in their area, so I have no choice but to use Century Link.
Century Link kind of sucks though... Their maximum download speed is 10MB (that's their fastest plan), but if they don't sign on to this, I'll love them forever. Unless they make a law where ISPs have to agree this policy...
As I said earlier, there are ways around things such as these.
I found this little read to be interesting:
Quote:1st of July 2012 is when the largest effort of the US to fight piracy – the six-strike regime – will start. The system represents the collaboration between the largest country’s Internet service providers and the entertainment industry, represented by the MPAA and RIAA.
The list of participating ISPs includes Time Warner Cable, Comcast, AT&T, Cablevision, and Verizon. The 6-strike system mainly focuses on copyrighted content located on BitTorrent networks.
However, there’s something that raises not just morality questions, but also the legal ones. The matter is that the entertainment industry in cooperation with ISPs is planning to be the judge of all digital material without letting anyone to check on them.
In addition, they believe that the BitTorrent network is facilitating the infringement of copyrighted content, which seems to be one of the most ridiculous ideas to many. However, instead of pinning every drawback of the graduated response regime, wee may offer you four convenient ways to circumvent it.
1. VPN services. When the entertainment industry is scanning open P2P networks, your IP address is both vulnerable and easy to track. You can mask your IP address by subscribing to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) – this will hide your real IP from all public view. Moreover, VPNs don’t keep logs, so there won’t be any trail to track.
2. Proxy services. They are quite similar to VPNs, but they do not re-route online traffic through a number of remote servers, which simply hide specific programs and protocols.
3. Seedbox services. In case you want to be 100% secure, check out a seedbox, which provides anonymity by downloading torrent files to some remote machine not attached to your IP address. When the download is ready, the content will be transferred to the user’s PC without BitTorrent’s involvement. Such seedboxes offer fast connection speeds.
4. Private networks. As it was said above, the entertainment industry will scan open P2P networks, including servicers like The Pirate Bay. However, aside from open networks, you can also find private trackers staying under the radar and keeping you safe.
Other alternatives include obsolete utilities like the Internet relay chat (IRC), Usenet, Freenet Project, and digital storage lockers.
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SaM
June 11th,2012
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Vacui☆Natale Wrote: [ -> ]Century Link kind of sucks though... Their maximum download speed is 10MB (that's their fastest plan)
Haha.
I love how Americans complain about their internet.
NZ has terrible "broadband" internet. MY internet speeds vary between 100 - 200KB/s a second. That's 1/10ths to 2/10ths of 1 MB.
Grey Ghost Wrote: [ -> ]NZ has terrible "broadband" internet. MY internet speeds vary between 100 - 200KB/s a second. That's 1/10ths to 2/10ths of 1 MB.
I don't mean to brag, but...
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cR@Zy!NgLi$h Wrote: [ -> ]Grey Ghost Wrote: [ -> ]NZ has terrible "broadband" internet. MY internet speeds vary between 100 - 200KB/s a second. That's 1/10ths to 2/10ths of 1 MB.
I don't mean to brag, but...
Fastest in the country...
You have that magical Auckland internet. Im all of the jelly...
Mines like 80% slower than the rest of NZ..
Mr. Shizzy Wrote: [ -> ]As I said earlier, there are ways around things such as these.
I found this little read to be interesting:
Unfortunately they usually require payment or restrict what you can get.
What I'm perhaps more interested is what ISPs can actually do to block/detect such activity:
- Look into unencrypted torrents? - BT encryption is an easy workaround
- Detect you visiting torrent tracker websites such as TPB? Technically doesn't constitute piracy since you can visit a site without actually downloading, but I wouldn't be surprised if they simply don't care. Bypass would be through any open proxy / Tor.
- Monitor tracker activity? This seems somewhat pointless, as it's basically the same as what law enforcement is doing already. I believe the idea of this deal is to push the cost of this enforcement onto the ISP, but I really can't see an ISP taking such an initiative in doing this (exception is those which have principle interest in the film/recording industry)
- Or maybe they decide to target DDL websites instead of torrents? This is perhaps the only feasible thing with a relatively reasonable success rate that I can think of. But, historically at least, DDL hasn't gone into the spotlight as much as BT. But perhaps with MU taken down, this has changed?
That's all I can really think of...
Happy Canada Day!
Once, Rogers send an email with some info from a BT download. This was about three years ago. I've never gotten anything like that again. I think the gist of the letter was, "Stop it!".