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Internet service providers to act against online piracy by reducing bandwidth
kitamesume:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/1gbps-fiber-for-70in-america-yup.ars
anyone seen this? it looks like a fake article...
dogsinafen:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on August 19, 2011, 08:49:55 AM ---http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/1gbps-fiber-for-70in-america-yup.ars
anyone seen this? it looks like a fake article...
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It's not...
AnimeJanai:
The other corporations are not scared because they still own the national and local trunk lines that the small ISP must hook to. As soon as the TO: / FROM: bytes become unbalanced or exceed contractual caps, the major companies will throttle the byte transfer from that company at the interface point. As long as US government laws allow deregulated competition, that also means the laws allow corporations to NOT compete and artificially have higher prices, lower bandwidths, and throttled speeds. Without conflict of interest laws, a number of film/TV/video/media companies such as Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner Cable, and Cablevision can dictate TOS terms that are against bandwidth usage if it is not within their own network (this would allow that ISP to sell pay per view or streaming television/movie services to their own customers thru their own network). The key to higher prices and less choice is deregulation.
nstgc:
How are they determining whether or not someone is a pirate? I assume they aren't spying on you directly. I had already heard to keep speeds below a certain limit. I assume thats it. In any case, I've mostly been using DDL for my anime. They bitch about that I'll simply stop watching anime. Its good stuff, but not good enough for me to buy. Few anime are, but I'm not going to spend $200 on anime to find one that I like (then an additional $150 for the rest of that show). Also, my experience will almost all official translations is that they suck ass. I don't pirate anything else.
I am worried about how they are finding people. If they are packet sniffing, that should be illegal (if it isn't already). Going through every packet seems computationally unlikely.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: nstgc on August 24, 2011, 10:41:30 PM ---How are they determining whether or not someone is a pirate? I assume they aren't spying on you directly. I had already heard to keep speeds below a certain limit. I assume thats it. In any case, I've mostly been using DDL for my anime. They bitch about that I'll simply stop watching anime. Its good stuff, but not good enough for me to buy. Few anime are, but I'm not going to spend $200 on anime to find one that I like (then an additional $150 for the rest of that show). Also, my experience will almost all official translations is that they suck ass. I don't pirate anything else.
I am worried about how they are finding people. If they are packet sniffing, that should be illegal (if it isn't already). Going through every packet seems computationally unlikely.
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packet sniffing happens and i don't think it's illegal.
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