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Originally posted by DigiNut That might help keep you away from the honeypots, .

The honeypots are the ones doing all the legal action, not the ISPs themselves right?

A naive user is practically guaranteed
to be monitored: we observe that 100% of our peers run into blocklisted
users. In fact, 12% to 17% of all distinct IPs contacted by a peer are blocklisted
ranges. Interestingly, a little caution can have a significant effect: the top five
most prevalent blocklisted IPs contribute to nearly 94% of all blocklisted entities
we ran into. This information can help users to reduce their chances of being
monitored to just about 1%


source

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Originally posted by devnull rapidshare, mega, and torrents is crap. kills the scene cuz of shitheads leakin stuff.....grrr

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Originally posted by DigiNut Also, I can only speculate, but it's logical to assume that ISPs don't care about RS or similar sites as much as torrents because they don't do anywhere near as much damage as torrents. Tracker traffic saturates the upstream part of your bandwidth, which not only is a lot more expensive for your ISP but also hurts your download speeds considerably just by itself.

My experience suggests that ISPs care more about torrents b/c, unlike w/ file sharing websites, the use of torrents involves the spreading of files since when one downloads via torrents one also uploads to others (the basic way torrents operate). When I used to rely on torrents I would turn off all uploading and set the uploading speed to 0kb/s but I got a letter from my ISP on behalf of Paramount bitching at me for illegally uploading a movie to others.

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Originally posted by Nick Cenik

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Originally posted by Nick Cenik I got a letter from my ISP on behalf of Paramount bitching at me for illegally uploading a movie to others.

peer guardian prevents this.

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Originally posted by Porky peer guardian prevents this.

I was using PG when it happened.

Thanks for the invite Alex!


Would you believe it I didn't know about PG until this thread? Finally installed, better than nothing

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Below is a letter from my ISP to me I got 2 years ago. I dug it up from a previous P2P thread here;
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=382307

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Subject: Notice ID: 182-2906647 ESA Foreign Notice From: [email protected][/email] Date: Sat, January 20, 2007 4:56 am To: [email protected] Priority: Normal Aurora Cable Internet has received notification of copyright infringement originating from your computer's IP address, it is our responsibility to forward this complaint to you. Attached is a copy of the complaint that has been received. Please note that receipt or distribution of copyrighted material is a violation of Aurora Cable Internet's Acceptable Use Policy and the Xtreme Cable Modem Agreement policy which was signed by you at the time of the installation. These policies are available for viewing at: http://aci.on.ca/internet/policies.htm Regards, Aurora Cable Internet Technical Support

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Entertainment Software Association 575 7th Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20004 USA Attention: Intellectual Property Enforcement Telephone: 202-223-2400 E-mail: [email][email protected] 20 Jan 2007 08:13:40 GMT ISP: Aurora Cable Internet ESA Reference Number: 182-290xxxx Dear Aurora Cable Internet: The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is a U.S. trade association that represents the intellectual property interests of numerous companies that publish interactive games for video game consoles, personal computers, handheld devices and the Internet in the United States and in other countries (collectively referred to as ESA members). ESA is authorized to act on behalf of ESA members whose copyright and other intellectual property rights it believes to be infringed as described herein. ESA is providing this letter of notification to make Aurora Cable Internet aware of material on its network or system that infringes the exclusive copyright rights of and is unlawful towards one or more ESA members. Through the Berne Convention and other international treaties covering intellectual property rights, ESA believes that its members' rights in such entertainment software products are entitled to the full protection of the intellectual property law as well as other relevant laws of your country. Based on the information at its disposal, ESA has a good faith belief that the IP address below infringes the rights of one or more ESA members by offering for sale or download unauthorized copies of game products protected by copyright, or offering for sale or download material that is the subject of infringing activities. The copyrighted works that have been infringed include but are not limited to: Title: Superman Returns Infringement Source: BitTorrent Infringement Timestamp: 20 Jan 2007 07:45:57 GMT Infringement Last Documented: 20 Jan 2007 07:45:57 GMT Infringer Username: Infringing Filename: Superman Returns xbox Infringing Filesize: 931809344 Infringer IP Address: 69.17.185.xxx Infringer DNS Name: xtreme-26-158.dyn.aci.on.ca Infringing URL: http://pn5.epac.to:8258/announce The unauthorized copies of such game product(s) or the material that is the subject of infringing activities appears on or is made available through the above-listed IP address. Those items are listed and/or identified thereon by their titles or variations thereof, game-related listings/references/descriptions, or depictions of game-related artwork. Such copies, titles, game-related listings/references/descriptions, depictions, and material that is the subject of infringing activities, are hereinafter referred to as "Infringing Material." Accordingly, ESA hereby requests Aurora Cable Internet to immediately do the following: 1. Notify the account holder of the Infringing Material. 2. Remove, or disable access to, the Infringing Material detailed above. 3. Take appropriate action against the account holder under your Abuse Policy/Terms of Service Agreement, including termination of a repeat offender. Please inform us whether you will remove or disable access to the Infringing Material as requested. Aurora Cable Internet or the account holder may contact ESA at the above-listed contact details, with email preferred. Please include the above-noted Reference Number in the subject line of all email correspondence. Thank you for your cooperation and prompt response in this matter. Sincerely, Intellectual Property Enforcement Entertainment Software Association

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Originally posted by Porky peer guardian prevents this.

Peer Guardian is a black list, and black lists as a whole cannot scale to the size of a P2P network. It's generally accepted among security experts that the concept is a dead end; with rare exceptions, firewalls, ACLs, CAS rules, trusts, and secure protocols are always implemented as white lists.

It is like blocking specific words in the subject or message body to prevent spam; at the beginning, when the instigators were incredibly naïve and there wasn't a great deal of spam or e-mail period, this approach did work. Once the spammers caught on, though, blacklisting became completely impractical and even the largest distributed blacklists like ORBS quickly became obsolete.

The same is true for Peer Guardian. The tool was effective when the honeypots were essentially a cowboy project, a couple of low-tech jerks working from one of the MPAA offices, but now they're aware of PG's existence and it really isn't that hard for them to register some randomly-assigned Comcast IP and do their dirty work from there. They don't need to rotate these very often - just long enough such that they've changed by the time the community figures it out.

It is possible that PG will prevent you from hitting a honeypot in some cases, just like filtering "Viagra" in your e-mail subject line might eliminate some spam, but it is never going to prevent it completely.

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Originally posted by Orko That's basically what I am doing (acanac's work around). They probably cannot see what you are downloading, and if they do try and break it, they are running a huge risk of getting sued. All they do is if they see a large amount of encrypted data, they limit the port automatically, even if they don't know what is being transmitted. I cannot believe the thread was renamed! Nobody ever takes my suggestions! For speeds, RS and sites like that are the best bet, because ISP's just cannot limit speeds for HTTP traffic on port 80. They just fuck with every other port known to man.

i think that's the problem I'm having right now with Rogers because when I connect for work, all my packets are obviously encrypted, but I think Rogers is throttling indiscriminately. i also use Skype a lot as well..

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Originally posted by dEsidEL i think that's the problem I'm having right now with Rogers because when I connect for work, all my packets are obviously encrypted, but I think Rogers is throttling indiscriminately. i also use Skype a lot as well..

Sounds about right. I had the same thing when I was employed and working from home with Bell. It got really annoying. I even noticed they were fuckin with my FTP transfers. So I called to question them about this, the level 1 person said no of course. I asked to speak to somebody higher up, and they confirmed, so I canceled my account on the spot. I was legitimately using my FTP for school and work, and they tried to get me to upgrade to the business account, which of course I refused to do.