TheHalf 0 Report post · CID: 6623912800375 Posted September 6, 2007 By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com It appears that Comcast has stepped up their fight against BitTorrent by outright cutting off users Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
resopalrabotnick 2 Report post · CID: 64611548358 Posted September 6, 2007 you also have to look at it from a financial aspect: traffic from one isp to the other is expensive. which gives the isp ample reason to not want this huge bandwidth load on their inter-isp connections. especially since the isp ends up paying for connections that are in many cases illegal. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tdawnaz 280 Report post · CID: 625702405425 Posted September 6, 2007 GOOD as it should be Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WildBlueGyrl 0 Report post · CID: 2214576644639 Posted September 6, 2007 The only thing I want to point out about this is that there has been a federal mandate in place for years now to limit the amount of information that a customer can upload and download in a given amount of time. It's called the Fair Access Policy. Granted, individual ISPs are free to actually set the limitations for their own individual users, depending on packages and whatnot. But the point is, this is only another facet of the Fair Access Policy. If someone get's pissed off about the fact that they are having their download and upload usage throttled back, then they should stop with the dirty movies they are obsessed with and use the internet for more important things. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
resopalrabotnick 2 Report post · CID: 64611548358 Posted September 6, 2007 you can download all the pr0n you want legally. you just have to pay for the proper sites. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WildBlueGyrl 0 Report post · CID: 2214576644639 Posted September 6, 2007 I'll agree with that, but downloading such materials eats up your bandwidth usage. And I know that several people use programs like BitTorrent to download massive amounts of that type of information. Hence, Fair Access Policy violations, decreased speeds, all sorts of nasties. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheHalf 0 Report post · CID: 6623912800375 Posted September 7, 2007 I use 'BitChe' (if you are unsure about it, google it - a very neat program that doesn't need the .netframework); also Chip the creator (from DietK) is one intelligent mofo and there are scripts to many torrent sites where you can download programssoftwareshareware legally without a hitch. And as far as the article reads, those Comcast users who use torrent (seed) should implement the VPN - SSH protocol TheHalf Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
