ISPs to Start Throttling Pirates, More by July 12

[Kewlx25]

I have a feeling 2012 is going to be the year of DarkNet and 2013 is going to be the year of FreeNet.

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

Ahh the poor people that don't even know that there wifi connection is being hijacked... What happens when they get throttled...

 

[__-_-_-__]

JUST USE A VPN. FIXED.

 

[carnage9270]

[citation][nom]RADIO_ACTIVE[/nom]Ahh the poor people that don't even know that there wifi connection is being hijacked... What happens when they get throttled...[/citation]

Actually it's your own responsibility to secure your own connection.

 

[__-_-_-__]

[citation][nom]gnookergi[/nom]What about IRC file sharing? Can they track that?[/citation]
you can just use irc via SSL. they won't track. But a VPN is a lot better

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]sloppy joe[/nom]man, hotel wifi is about to get a lot slower..[/citation]
and school wifi

 

[akentrepreneur]

The privacy rights that we are supposedly afforded in life don’t translate to our online lives. When we send a letter we have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The letter will arrive at its destination, unopened. Sadly, this is not the case online. Most traffic sent over the Internet is plain text, and even that which is encrypted with SSL is susceptible to a trusted man in the middle interception.

With this being said, there are ways to protect your internet privacy. You can prevent ISP's from spying on your traffic by using an encrypted tunnel such as hushtunnel.com.

Most proxies available are SSL based and as such are prone to trusted man in the middle attacks. Hush Tunnel uses SSH and is the easiest way to protect your online privacy, encrypting and anonymizing your internet traffic with a single click.

 

[Guest]

I can tell you that as of a week ago, Cablevision began seriously throttling my download speed. It's dropped from about 10Mb to under 1Mb under normal conditions, and when I use a torrent downloader, it drops to under 30Kb. Cablevision did this to me before in 2006 and after I got it cleared, the way I was able to keep it from happening again was to keep my upload speed to under 200Kb and encrypt the torrents. Apparently that no longer works.

They did this with no warning or notice to me. From what I hear, they may go by the number of connections you have.

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom] but the only way I can think of would be an invasion of privacy by monitoring all you network traffic.[/citation]

My thoughts exactly

 

[joebones]

Comcast is the very worst company of all. They started the bandwidth limits, etc. They are shaping the internet to be a piece of CRAP instead of the free and open communication it once was.

One day, whatever COMCAST doesnt like, doesnt make it out to users around the world. Including anti-COMCAST messages like this. They need to be stopped by public action.

 

[Guest]

I think if you really have nothing to hide you download your entiring steam, orgin, impluse etc collection 4+ times a month just for shits and giggles. If you rotated between them you would always have games to play. It would blow you cap out immensly with legal traffic. If you ISP rings up just tell them to bug off and stop spying on you!!

 

[Guest]

Don't forget..we can always unsubscribe from the providers also. You have to hit them were it hurts....MONEY! We dont need the internet, but, they need us to be in business(they have forgotten that apparently). Go back to BBS. It worked pretty good before the net.

 

[ablestmage]

It's interesting to see an RIAA official use the word "downloading" when all of their court proceedings against piracy specifically prosecuted uploading. All of the defendants named were accused of sharing (uploading) rather than for having received (downloading).