Play nice...
Posted on 10/21/2012 5:08:25 PM PDT by Orange1998
It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online.
A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly punish people violating digital copyrights. The Copyright Alert System was announced last July and has been four years in the making.
If you use AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, or Verizon as your Internet service provider, you could receive the first of one of these notes starting in the next two months.
The Internet provider is delivering the message, but the legwork is being done by the copyright owners, which will monitor peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent.
They use a service called MarkMonitor, which uses a combination of people and automated systems to spot illegal downloading. It will collect the IP addresses of offenders, but no personal information. The IP addresses are turned over to the Internet providers, which will match up the address with the right customer and send the notification.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Our elected officials have stolen 16 trillion, and they are worried about prosecuting people sneaking into the movies!
Play nice...
Whenever I don my eyepatch it is only through trusted private trackers and with encryption, and then if its something I actually liked I go and buy it anyway ;)
Funny
Uhhhh.... because nothing is being “downloaded” per se.
If you didn’t pay for the license to stream (say) a video — how is that different from other forms of theft or fraud? It’s called “piracy” for a reason.
Bye
Everything on the net travels through many computers, if you’ve identified your material on a bittorrent server you know where it is, you look and see what IPs it’s sending packets to, you can even get the hops, which will tell you who their ISP is, you report the IP and time to the ISP, they know which account logged into the network to have that IP at that time.
Because every packet tells every computer it goes through where it’s going it’s all very easy.
Using a proxy will only help until they start monitoring traffic around known proxies. Streaming changes nothing, data packets are data packets, they all have their destination IP.
I have one simple rule when it comes to Bit Torrent.
Get it quick, delete all the torrent files when done, turn the program off, and stick with crap no one cares about.
I’ve seen people that had dozens of files going that left their client running 24/7. Absolutely nuts!
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