I hardly even use P2P yet Road Runner still sent me a message and interrupted my service until I clicked a link saying "I acknowledge receipt of this message and agree to take measures to stop piracy." This cheeses me off. If they're sending this to me, someone who hardly uses P2P, then what are they doing to people who are heavy users?
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-riaa-team-up-with-isps-to-curb-piracy-110707/ A quick google search turned up that article which seems to be what I just received. It looks like it's time for me to get a cyberlocker account.
http://www.peerblock.com/ Does anyone know anything about the free program Peer Block which claims to make your IP address invisible and blocks known "bad" IP addresses?
I got one of these from Comcast a couple of years ago. I get viruses/malware/etc. when I download lately, forcing me to put Windows back (complete start from scratch) thus I don't do that anymore.
I don't do it anymore, and I'm buying up what I watched. Real movies have the bonus features and shit anyway.
I find if I burn downloaded music to a CD the CD doesn't last long. Real purchased CD's last for a decade or more. Seriously, I make a ton of money, why should I be such a cheap bastard? So, I watch YouTube to get ideas of what I want to buy, then order off Amazon. My next purchase will be Stained Class by Judas Priest.
It's basically a firewall and it works pretty well if you use the right block lists. Also it's a good idea when using P2P to throttle your upload speed as low as it can go without it affecting the download speed, and stopping the torrent as soon as downloading is completed. What they go after are uploaders, not downloaders.
Anyone else bothered that the ISP is tracking your online activity? Who else have they alerted to what you may be viewing? We should take this to the Red Room.
Disagree it belongs in the Red Room. Techforge addresses how someone can specifically fix the problem versus spying on us in general.
Send them an email back. Tell them if they threaten you again you will drive round to their house and run over their dog.
They didn't send an email. They just interrupt service electronically and won't restore it until you click a link saying you got the message and agree to delete any allegedly pirated material. From what I understand you can get five of these before they do any thing and even then all they do is trottle your access speed but really this isn't about piracy (which the ISP's couldn't care less about) and instead they just want to get rid of heavy users who use a lot of bandwidth. Ideally, they want folks who pay for the full hog access but never use anything more than a fraction of what they paid for. Sadly, there are only two high speed ISPs in my area (not counting dish which is only high down but slow up) so it's not like customers have much choice or that there is much competitive pressure on the ISPs to stop mistreating their customers.
I think what I hate about the whole thing is that it immediately assumes you're guilty, so when you click the button that says you'll delete pirated content, you're essentially admitting that you did pirate it, even if you didn't.
