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Seems the music companies have got the ISP's on board for music piracy.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal
Download a track and you could be sent a warning letter, 3 and your out.
How are they going to do this without looking at your data?
Obviously record company pockets aren't quite full enough...
Surely this sends out the wrong message that ISP's will snoop your data to see if the content you are sharing is legal or not, but look the other way if you're downloading child pornography....
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal
Download a track and you could be sent a warning letter, 3 and your out.
The focus is on people sharing files illegally;
Obviously record company pockets aren't quite full enough...
Surely this sends out the wrong message that ISP's will snoop your data to see if the content you are sharing is legal or not, but look the other way if you're downloading child pornography....
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Can't see many joining them TBH. I'd be surprised if they didn't opt out when they have to start banning their client base (assuming they remain true to their word). Some file sharing now has encription attached to it, so presumably it'd be hard for the ISPs to even enforce this ban.
And as for the pretence that it's the artists that suffer, oh please, this is to protect the fat cats at the record companies, who have been legitimately stealing off artists for years!!!
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And as for the pretence that it's the artists that suffer, oh please, this is to protect the fat cats at the record companies, who have been legitimately stealing off artists for years!!!
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The record companies kicked up the same fuss when recordable cassettes came out, saying it would kill the industry etc...
The main reason for the decline in record sales is that kids now spend their money on DVD's, games, clothing, mobile phones etc... from a young age, and music doesnt seem to be as important to them as it used to be.
The main reason for the decline in record sales is that kids now spend their money on DVD's, games, clothing, mobile phones etc... from a young age, and music doesnt seem to be as important to them as it used to be.
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Seems the music companies have got the ISP's on board for music piracy.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal
Download a track and you could be sent a warning letter, 3 and your out.
How are they going to do this without looking at your data?
Obviously record company pockets aren't quite full enough...
Surely this sends out the wrong message that ISP's will snoop your data to see if the content you are sharing is legal or not, but look the other way if you're downloading child pornography....
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal
Download a track and you could be sent a warning letter, 3 and your out.
How are they going to do this without looking at your data?
Obviously record company pockets aren't quite full enough...
Surely this sends out the wrong message that ISP's will snoop your data to see if the content you are sharing is legal or not, but look the other way if you're downloading child pornography....
Councils have been given the right to do this now by the authorities.
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The problem is, is that it is virtually impossible for the ISPs to distinguish between illegal, and legal file sharing.Short of monitoring all traffic, which has such a huge overhead as to be unthinkable
I would say the best way to comabt this is for people to leave thier ISP and join anothe rone if they receive warning letters and give the express reason that they do not agree with this snooping.
Of course, this won't happen. We'll just take it up the ****.
I would say the best way to comabt this is for people to leave thier ISP and join anothe rone if they receive warning letters and give the express reason that they do not agree with this snooping.
Of course, this won't happen. We'll just take it up the ****.
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The problem is, is that it is virtually impossible for the ISPs to distinguish between illegal, and legal file sharing.Short of monitoring all traffic, which has such a huge overhead as to be unthinkable
I would say the best way to comabt this is for people to leave thier ISP and join anothe rone if they receive warning letters and give the express reason that they do not agree with this snooping.
Of course, this won't happen. We'll just take it up the ****.
I would say the best way to comabt this is for people to leave thier ISP and join anothe rone if they receive warning letters and give the express reason that they do not agree with this snooping.
Of course, this won't happen. We'll just take it up the ****.
KY, Pete?
Plus net are very good with file sharing, and transparent with their policy. They even offer different packages to support it, so the bandwidth hungry download monsters pay more, but get better DL speeds than those who predominantly just surf and occasionally use it.
If I get a letter from an ISP saying that they intend to adopt this policy -even if it does just amount to unenforceable meaningless lip service to the record companies- I walk on principle!
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The most common was to put out dummy files on heavily used filesharing sites (such as Limewire or open Torrent sites like Mininova) and then track the IP of the downloaders and then as soon as you start to share that content you have now not only downloaded something illegally but you are responsible for distributing (i.e. heavier penalities) as well.
If you use something like limewire it is very easy to packet sniff (with no real overhead) and see the filenames and 'assume' that they are real. That would be interesting in court to prove.
If you use standard Bit Torrent ports those can be monitored as well and similar data extracted.
As an ISP you can run a report of everyone who is downloading more than 30gb/month (in fact probably more than 10gb) and just sniff those users for illegal downloads. It IS possible to download that amount legally, but unless you are a business or hosting a popular website unlikely.
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So I use newsgroups with SSL...how can they see? Obviously when my connection is maxed out constantly they can whine...but they can't tell what I'm downloading?
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The whole thing will effect casual downloaders who have no idea how it works and don't even do rudimentary things like change the default ports more than anyone else.
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When you connect to an illegal (or any other for that matter) torrent, each person on the torrent can see the ip address of other users - thats how they know you are doing it. Just monitoring the illegal torrents and see who downloads (and uploads)
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Firstly they use to be my ISP, and I got sick of the, u can only download at certain times, you can only dload effectively from certain protocols, whilst we try to deny that we are aggressively throttling all your dloads. Cack
Anyway OT and I am on an ISP that doesn't throttle anything or limit me in anyway so move on
Anyway OT and I am on an ISP that doesn't throttle anything or limit me in anyway so move on
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ISPs and music industry announce piracy crackdown | News | Custom PC
Reading from that, I reckon it's just torrents that they're trying to "get" for the time being.
Reading from that, I reckon it's just torrents that they're trying to "get" for the time being.
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Paaedos owe them nothing.
Personally, I'd like to these these indepth calculations that the music industry has made with regards to how much money they "lost" through downloads....Whilst there is a loss of income - no argument with that. However I think they are distorted in the industry's favour; I'm layings odds these figures work close to the assumptions every illegal download = one lost sale.
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Sadly it because the music and film industries "think" downloading their content owes them £billions.
Paaedos owe them nothing.
Personally, I'd like to these these indepth calculations that the music industry has made with regards to how much money they "lost" through downloads....Whilst there is a loss of income - no argument with that. However I think they are distorted in the industry's favour; I'm layings odds these figures work close to the assumptions every illegal download = one lost sale.
Paaedos owe them nothing.
Personally, I'd like to these these indepth calculations that the music industry has made with regards to how much money they "lost" through downloads....Whilst there is a loss of income - no argument with that. However I think they are distorted in the industry's favour; I'm layings odds these figures work close to the assumptions every illegal download = one lost sale.
Steve
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