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Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade
StonyandCher writes "More and more ISPs are blocking or throttling traffic to the peer-to-peer file-sharing service, even if you are downloading copyright free content. Have you been targeted? How can you get around the restrictions? This PC World report shows you a number of tips and tools can help you determine whether you're facing a BitTorrent blockade and, if so, help you get around it."
There is nothing lucky about competition in the Australian broadband market. We forced the monopolist to open their network and we enforced the laws to keep the competition healthy. The fact that the USA is incapable of doing this is proof that they have lost control of their political system and they're the first to admit it.
How we know is more important than what we know.
that the cable companies don't consider (or don't want to have to consider) the consumer of their broadband offerings as their customer. They'd much rather have us be parasites on their network, parasites who happen to be targets of profitable marketing campaigns. The ad injection nonsense that a number of ISPs have launched is indicative of this attitude: we're just eyeballs attached to brains that view commercials.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Protest by paying the bill in pennies or any other kind of creative check-writing various tax departments have been the victim of...
So, what are you implying? That those who pay for a high-speed connection to the Internet shouldn't have rights to the high-speed part of it? So you are saying because I pay $XX per month to get unlimited access to the Internet at a speed of say ~1.5 MB/Second I have no right to demand use of that unlimited connection? I don't get what you are implying here, it seems like you are saying that what you pay for you have no right to use.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Maybe you'll shutup when they come for your 3rd party VOIP.
He's implying that anyone clueless enough to think they can get "unlimited access to the internet" for a measly ~$40/month deserves to get burned. People that dumb are the ones responsible for the subprime mess.
speaking of losing control of your political system, how much is the fine for owning a freaking laser pointer in Australia again?
pot, meet kettle.
They didn't lose control. They gave it up willingly, for the sake of convenience. If they actually cared, they wouldn't keep on voting for the one who can flash the most cash. They would seek out and vote for candidates who aren't so allied with big business. But... it's more convenient to just vote for the guy that mass media presents to them. Then bitch about it till the next cycle, repeat. If they would admit it, they would be on the first step towards a cure. As it is, the 45 year decline will continue for at least four more. There is no end in sight. Australia doesn't really look any better
What?
It's not car manufacturers, it's more like taxing someone who spends more time on roads then someone else, which is something we do already with Fuel Taxes and Road taxes against Semis.
I agree with throttling, I just wish they would be upfront about it. If they have bandwidth limit, then state it. If they block certain protocols, say so.
that of course assumes that there is another company that doesn't throttle that you can switch to. without healthy competition, it simply won't work in that manner.
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I don't have this problem because I am willing to pay more for service from an ISP like Speakeasy that does not do this. If you want these companies to change, you need to be willing to hurt their bottom line even if it costs you more.
The cake is a pie
A friend of mine runs a ISP, he has a very simple policy that works out
rather well. He does not go out of his way to regulate what people do
on the network until it causes a issue. Bit Torrent is a bandwidth hog
and attempts to evade filtering rather well. If he encounters issues
caused by a Bit Torrent user he just hands them their money back
for the month and drops them as a customer. This keeps the rest of the
network clean and the other customers happy. The profit margin on each
connection is so very thin that it just does not pay to mess with this
extremely small portion of the customer base.
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They basically do that with their x-ty thousand miles warranties.
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.
Not really.
You have to start with the party and take control at a much earlier stage.
In america by the time the voting for a candidate in either major party takes place, you've already lost to the corporations.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I think they meant things like Linux -- which is, of course, copy-written. The whole Free Software movement hinges on Copyright (Left?). So, presumably, they just meant crap like music and movies that someone is going to bitch about you copying as being copy-written.
It was a stupid remark on their part, I agree - but I think their intent was obvious.
Obvious or not it is still important to point out such errors because the RIAA/MPAA/BSA all want to create the illusion that it is illegal to share anything that is copyrighted.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I'm sure the next wave of cable modems will have red numeral LEDs on them. The more you download/upload, the higher the number counts (in bytes). Sort of like an odometer. The first of each month it gets reset back to zero. But, if you go over your monthly limit four things will happen. Should there be any question, the customer will have a visual representation of their usage habits.
1. Your connection slows down.
2. Your connection is turned off.
3. You pay extra past that X amount of bytes.
or...
4. You throw the damn modem out the windows and tell the ISP to go f*ck themselves.
Life is not for the lazy.
If you're not American, then take the bits you want out of the above and consider me trolled.
If you want broadband you've got basically 2 companies to choose from depending on where you live. Both suck. It won't be long before they really put the screws to people. Prices are going up and so are restrictions.
For example, look at the recent shenannigans with Bell and those subletting their monopolized line-system. The regulating bodies basically just said that Bell is doing nothing wrong by throttling or otherwise screwing with the traffic of the 3rd-party ISP's customers, because there's no proof it will cause lost business.
Hello! The ISP's cannot provide the indicated level of services due to the interference of a third party. Screw loss of business, that's a pretty major way of screwing the customers, who now have absolutely zero choice for ISP's who aren't handing it to them up the tailpipe (Rogers, the non-DSL ISP, also throttles). So is it fair that customers aren't "leaving" because they're getting equally screwed elsewhere?
When I last spent time in Aus, I was amazed by how closely they kept tabs on their politicians and policies. North America in general could learn a lot from them in that regard.
The number of legal users who end up in the top X% of their ISPs' resource expenditure graphs is so small as to be insignificant.
Unless you are one of them. Then it gets very significant, very fast.
Some of us care. Unfortunately, we seem to be a small minority. The typical American is happy to sit at home being spoon fed his/her weekly episode of "American Idol" and trade email chain letters that are the online equivalent of the National Equirer (think big foot, Elvis sightings, and UFOs).
-- Will program for bandwidth
That sounds like it would track only private tracker users at best and have lots of false positives.
...is that computer magazines run articles like this anyway. I doubt they'd post an article that's more or less "How-to warez more effectively!!!1", torrenting is something a lot of people do. The pirate bay is around top 100 on the alexia webranking, and if you start reading the next 100 maybe you'll realize just how big that is. It's higher than IGN, NBA, Digg, 2ch, SourceForge, CNET, mozilla, amazon.de (not com!) and so on. Other prominent sites like IsoHunt (124), torrentz.com (157) also rate very highly. That's way beyond a few hogs they want to get rid of, saying "WTF I can't use torrents" is almost up there with "WTF I can't watch YouTube" or "WTF I can't run MSN". They'll be killing themselves if they keep this up...
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The law was against having them with no legitimate use.. if you have a legitimate use then there's no law against having them. You'd know this if you had read anything about the law in question and you would have read something about it if you cared, so clearly you don't.
I've read plenty about the law you arrogant fool. I just happen not to be naive and stupid enough to trust a NSW cop to recognise a legitimate use, nor a judge to be suitably informed to try a case. How many NSW cops and judges do you know that are into astronomy. How do you tell the difference between an amateur astronomer with a pair of binocs and a laser pointer, and a dickhead who is using the same equipment to "shoot down" planes.
And this tripe gets modded informative. Slashdot has gone to the dogs.
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However using one for astronomy, sitting in a room doing whatever you need to do with it (IANAA - Astronomer) probably is. I would wager that most cops would be able to tell the difference here./P
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"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
Well, it IS easier to ban a gadget than "outlaw stupid". Look at the US which tried the "outlaw stupidity" method with regrds to gun control. Isn't working very effectively, IMHO. Most other contries just outlawed the gadget rather trying to make people smarter, laudable though that is in abstract.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Feeding troll. Your car analogy sucks. Yes, if I bought a car that does 400 mph I should damn well be able to drive it that fast. There are tracks around the country where you can pay to drive as fast as you like. So, yes, that governor on the car I paid my money for is keeping me from enjoying what I paid for.
That's nice. You paid $5 for a, what?....15 year old movie? Some people would rather not pay $30 for a movie that just came out, though.
ISPs are obligated to deliver on their promises. If I get a cable internet connection that says it delivers speeds of 30 Mb/s down and / 5 Mb/s up and has unlimited data transfer and no restrictions that's damn well what I expect to get. I don't care if my downloading every piece of free software via bittorrent I can get my hands on is affecting other customers. That's not my problem, it's the ISPs. They need to upgrade their network, not interfere with the service I paid for.
If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.