• “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Monday in the US
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Somebody should set up an easy VPN setup service with programs and all that for the less tech-savvy. You'd make huge money.
I hope they don't monitor [B]every[/B] torrent,seeing as there are bunch of legal ones out there. The only torrent I ever used was to get the 1.50 patch for Battlefield 2. It was 2 GB big,and torrenting was just faster than a regular download.
I've been offered faster speeds in my area by comcast, and speed-tests show they are actually faster, but I'll stick with my P2P friendly ISP.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;39696354]This is a private agreement between the MPAA/RIAA and ISPs, it's completely outside the government. They couldn't get SOPA to do it for them, so they just made a deal outside of government.[/QUOTE] Hold on! Hold the FUCK on! You're telling me that in the USA, the government can't do anything that's unconstitutional, but a private person CAN? So by that logic, could a PMC could break the third amendment and get away with it?
[QUOTE=deltasquid;39698120]Hold on! Hold the FUCK on! You're telling me that in the USA, the government can't do anything that's unconstitutional, but a private person CAN? So by that logic, could a PMC could break the third amendment and get away with it?[/QUOTE] The constitution protects you from the government, not your private citizens. Especially when [I]you agree to buy their service with terms and conditions[/I]
[QUOTE=scout1;39698126]The constitution protects you from the government, not your private citizens. Especially when [I]you agree to buy their service with terms and conditions[/I][/QUOTE] Wow that's fucked up. I'm glad my constitution is applicable in all cases. Especially because in Europe, the law > their service with terms and conditions.
[QUOTE=deltasquid;39698165]Wow that's fucked up. I'm glad my constitution is applicable in all cases. Especially because in Europe, the law > their service with terms and conditions.[/QUOTE] Have you read the constitution, by any chance?
Watch as USA's population falls and the population of other countries jumps. Get it?
Cause it's aimed entirely at government
[QUOTE=Rob Markia;39696204]Dang, I wont be able to download my linux distros anymore. :([/QUOTE] [QUOTE]During the coming months millions of BitTorrent users will be actively monitored by copyright holders.[/QUOTE] Though some greedy fuck will probably abuse it.
[QUOTE=scout1;39698184]Have you read the constitution, by any chance?[/QUOTE] Of course. One of its amendments abolishes slavery. Are you telling me that only applies to the government as well?
[QUOTE=Ermac20;39696301]I feel sorry that you Americans have to put up with this shit[/QUOTE] I agree. Luckily I live in Sweden.
Joke's on you, I have eventually bought everything I have pirated.
So how exactly do they tell the difference between piracy and own-file sharing? What if I made my own song, named it "Lady Gaga new song" or something as a joke and uploaded it to a file sharing website?
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;39696137]This can't possibly be constitutional, can it?[/QUOTE] at this point the constitution is totally disregarded by everyone in power unless it fits their point.
Those damn globalist bastards are after our internets again! Man the sails!
[QUOTE=legolover122;39696119]Seriously using IP adresses to find out who is downloading? What about dynamic IPs? Proxies/VPNs? Does this apply to all ISPs?[/QUOTE] Not to mention all the people using unsecure WiFi
People shouldn't use unsecure wifi.
Every time I see stuffs like this I'm glad I live in Hong Kong and don't have to deal with all these bullshit.
Good thing Hawaiian Telcom is independent and still super cheap ($30 for net and your rate never goes up as long as you stick with them). Oceanic Time Warner can eat a dick though just on the basis of being a Time Warner subsidiary for the pacific region. Ironically, HT's DSL speeds seem to be much faster than Time Warner's broadband here, at least on town side. Can't say for where I live since I'm stuck with Clear's shitty wireless internet for the time being but I'm pretty certain it's just as fast or faster being 'da country'.
I don't really see the problem with this, my old ISP used to do it and I found it was a pretty good deterrent because it would piss me off and I'd pause the download unless I really wanted to wait 2 minutes for a web page to load
For a place with such a big emphasis on freedom yer government and whatnot sure does like to reduce it.
[QUOTE=DigitalySane;39699234]For a place with such a big emphasis on freedom yer government and whatnot sure does like to reduce it.[/QUOTE] Except this bullshit has got nothing to do with the government. It's the RIAA, the MPAA, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;39699315]Except this bullshit has got nothing to do with the government. It's the RIAA, the MPAA, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.[/QUOTE] And your government is doing nothing about it why?
I'm sorry but what is the actual point in attacking the downloaders? I can understand going after the people who upload, but most of the downloaders aren't going to suddenly go out and buy your stuff just because you threatened them, they'll just flat out ignore your stuff. [editline]24th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;39699315]Except this bullshit has got nothing to do with the government. It's the RIAA, the MPAA, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.[/QUOTE] They're just pressure groups and lobbyists, they still rely on the government to make the laws.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39699450]I'm sorry but what is the actual point in attacking the downloaders? I can understand going after the people who upload, but most of the downloaders aren't going to suddenly go out and buy your stuff just because you threatened them, they'll just flat out ignore your stuff.[/QUOTE] This is what I was thinking as well. If I want X but don't want to spend $50 on it I'm certainly not going to rethink my position because you throttled my download speeds. I'm sure this will work for a small minority of people but the vast majority will either work around it or just deal with not having X. Either way the companies in question don't really gain a lot of returns and the ISP's just get vilified while wasting everyone's time.
I'm Glad I'm in Greece even though our economy is in the shit at least the government made piracy legal! :rock:
[QUOTE=ewitwins;39696398]Gentlemen: [url]http://www.noodlevpn.com/usa_vpn.html[/url][/QUOTE] [quote]We allow P2P/Torrent ONLY on Switzerland server, except childporn, spam and malware related. [/quote]
[QUOTE=legolover122;39696119]Seriously using IP adresses to find out who is downloading? What about dynamic IPs? Proxies/VPNs? Does this apply to all ISPs?[/QUOTE] I heard that Cox was absolutely not going to enforce this. But That's just that, I heard it. I'm sure there's an article somewhere
[QUOTE=Castiel451;39699506]I'm Glad I'm in Greece even though our economy is in the shit at least the government made piracy legal! :rock:[/QUOTE] You wouldn't download a soup kitchen...
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