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If you use BitTorrent this is a warning
Posted by shuke33 on 4/14 at 3:50 pm
Starting July 12 Heavy Crackdown starts

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Say you are an Internet Provider and have a customer base that has selected you for one reason or the other. What would convince you to start policing your users on behalf of another company or organization? According to CNET, U.S. American ISPs like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon or Cablevision have agreed to “policies designed to discourage customers from illegally downloading music, movies and software”.



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Posted by HT713 on 4/14 at 3:52 pm to shuke33
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Posted by colorchangintiger on 4/14 at 4:01 pm to shuke33
Yup, that's why my µTorrent has been running non stop for a few weeks now. Gotta get enough to last me for awhile.

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The icing on the cake is that encryption will render the monitoring useless.


Everyone should have encryption turned on in their favorite BitTorrent client.


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Posted by SW2SCLA on 4/14 at 4:06 pm to colorchangintiger
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Everyone should have encryption turned on in their favorite BitTorrent client.



I just started using µTorrent. How do you do that?



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Posted by colorchangintiger on 4/14 at 4:11 pm to SW2SCLA
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Enabling Protocol Encryption

Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) actively interfere with P2P activities in order to reduce their bandwidth requirements. This causes µTorrent and other file sharing download speeds to become slow. To avoid this, µTorrent and other clients have introduced an encryption protocol to prevent ISPs from identifying BitTorrent traffic.

Go to Options > Preferences > BitTorrent. Set Outgoing under Protocol Encryption to Enable, check "Allow incoming legacy connections".
Some ISPs have extremely aggressive throttling methods and for those users it might be necessary to set outgoing to Forced; however this will greatly reduce the number of peers you can connect to. Enabled is sufficient for most users.


(I set it to forced)



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Posted by SG_Geaux on 4/14 at 4:12 pm to colorchangintiger
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Yup, that's why my µTorrent has been running non stop for a few weeks now. Gotta get enough to last me for awhile.



Yeah. God forbid you have to pay for shite instead of stealing it.



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Posted by colorchangintiger on 4/14 at 4:14 pm to SG_Geaux
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Yeah. God forbid you have to pay for shite instead of stealing it.


I'm downloading movies that I've already bought twice, some 3 times, in my life. VHS, DVD, and bluray.


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Posted by lsu223 on 4/14 at 4:16 pm to colorchangintiger
Then why don't you watch one of your three copies?


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Posted by Johnny3tears on 4/14 at 4:17 pm to shuke33
I will never stop using Demonoid.


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Posted by brucevilanch on 4/14 at 4:18 pm to Johnny3tears
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Demonoid


FTW.



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Posted by PirateZac on 4/14 at 4:19 pm to shuke33
This is about as effective as when they started cracking down on P2P client users far after the real big pirates had switched to BitTorrent. There will always be a new method. I'm not worried.

Not to mention, most major games are downloaded legally using BitTorrent methods so the ISPs are basically just talkin' that shite. frick them.


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Posted by When in Rome on 4/14 at 4:20 pm to shuke33
Is it just a horrible idea to use limewire and/or torrent programs on the lsusecure network?


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Posted by Kafka on 4/14 at 4:20 pm to SG_Geaux
Seriously dude are you a PR rep for the RIAA?

EVERY TIME this subject comes up you are here spouting the party line.

I'm not even saying you're wrong. I'm just curious about your relentless consistency, that's all.



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Posted by Hulkklogan on 4/14 at 4:21 pm to shuke33
I work for an ISP and we already get notifications of when people are downloading illegal torrents. We suspend their internet if they get caught so they call in and we tell them what happened. Legally we have to; and suspending the internet acts like a shield to not allow more warnings and possible lawsuits to happen.

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Posted by colorchangintiger on 4/14 at 4:21 pm to lsu223
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Then why don't you watch one of your three copies?


my iPhone/MacBook/iPad/Xbox360/Apple TV's don't have a blu ray player.



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Posted by PirateZac on 4/14 at 4:30 pm to SG_Geaux
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Yeah. God forbid you have to pay for shite instead of stealing it.


Most studies conclude that if anything, piracy leads to better music sales, ticket sales, and other increases in income for bands because it gives them exposure to someone who wouldn't have paid to listen for free.

Also, software is the same way. I've bought games after downloading them simply because I wanted full support for it, a non-bastardized experience, and to support the developer. As a freelance developer, I wouldn't have a problem with someone pirating my software if it means they try it and enjoy my products. This means they may, again, at some point spend money on a product they wouldn't have without trying it. They lose little because they aren't losing a possible sale to someone who wouldn't have purchased it without trying it anyway. I've taken an entire class on this and a few other subjects as fluff for my tough CS classes, and the general consensus, professor included, is that no matter what your product is, people will find a way to steal it. We have to make it good enough to form that loyalty and give them a viable incentive to buy it legally. Adobe has been doing this for years, and they know how much their stuff is pirated. It also has lead to sales that wouldn't have been there.

The only industry where the "artists" suffer is the movie industry, and to be honest, there's not much I want to watch enough to steal anyway so I don't. Either way, most of their shite sucks.



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Posted by Johnny3tears on 4/14 at 4:40 pm to shuke33
You will be alright if you run a peerblock while downloading the torrent


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Posted by Siderophore on 4/14 at 4:42 pm to shuke33
Why I DL my torrents via HTTP


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Posted by lsu6294 on 4/14 at 4:43 pm to Siderophore
So if I exclusively use Demonoid, will I be effected by this?


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Posted by Siderophore on 4/14 at 4:44 pm to Johnny3tears
That is only "meh" protection

Maybe only 80% effective IMO



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