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My ISP is stalking my downloads.
Maybe they aren't. Maybe their "delay" is just a lie in order to get me into thinking i'm safe. Maybe they won't care if i'm downloading videos from legal places. Maybe they will fine me for even loading 3 seconds of a youtube video, due to suspected piracy.
aaaaaah aaaaaaaaah AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
STOP THIS SUFFOCATING TERROR
ONE FALSE POSITIVE AND BAM
1/4 OF MY BANK ACCOUNT CAN BE KILLED OFF
AND THESE PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN DOING THIS LEGALLY
getawaygetawayawayawayawayAWAYAWAYAWAY
So, uh, yeah. I'm being paranoid. I'm only here right now because I think they will allow me the most basic function of the internet (web browsing)...for now.
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no
this is worse than how
megaupload's death still haunts me to this day
GYATTA GET AWAAAAAAY
GET AWWWWAAAAAY~~
BETWEEN THE VELVET LIIII-IIES! THERE'S A TRUTH THAT'S HARD AS STEEEEEEL~ YEEE-HEAGH!
web comics maybe but I have Manga Reading Direction Syndrome
flash games bleh (I usually play an MMO but maybe my ISP will be all like ZOMGWUT U IS PLAYIN GAEM WIT INTERNET CONNECTION MAYB U IS PIRATE DAT!!!)
youtube videos tend to be .flv or .mp4 files which is horrible to look at because it automatically downloads into my temporary internet files and if I look at anything resembling something I should be paying for (like an anime scene, or a music video, or whatever) then BAM they can steal from my bank account for piracy
blogs meh
irc channels...meh
For starters, they would get fucktons of liability if they throttled people just for clicking on the wrong youtube video.
Not to mention that, practically speaking, there's more unauthorized reused/reuploaded material on Youtube than there is original content, anyway.
When you watch a Youtube video, the data is downloaded to your computer anyway; "streaming" doesn't really mean data flows in one end and flows out the other.
What is your ISP anyway?
which isps are doing this and who are their ceos
i need to update my hitlist
Aren't they just keeping an eye on torrents for the most part?
I think so, yeah. I'm kind of curious as to how deep their searches go, though.
Do they only pay attention to you if you use up a lot of bandwidth, or do they actually search out whether you're torrenting?
I'm guessing they cross-reference your browser history with certain flagged sites.
^^I think what they do is flag torrent traffic that goes through them. From there, I'm not sure what they do.
Can they look through the data you transmit for stuff going by torrent protocols or something?
^ That's what I thought.
I wouldn't see why not. Doing it in realtime would be a hell of a lot easier than running a search program which checks everyone's internet history.
"Aren't they just keeping an eye on torrents for the most part?"
that's what I heard
but
like
for the most part, man
as for which ISPs are doing this, iirc its every major American one
I don't think the ISP are looking at what you are downloading, to costly and impractical. How I believe it's going to work is that there are effectively poison peers in the torrent swarm. You try to connect to one of these ip's you're IP address gets flagged and the information is sent to the ISP to be dealt with.
goes to update peerblock
The program itself has not been updated for a while, focus more on the block lists.
Also this effort is being spearheaded by the mpaa and riaa and there have been reports of it being delayed, So don't panic.
I suppose the late 90s to now have been the Golden Age of the internet. It's only going to be so long until one of these things gets passed and succeeds, at which point we'll reminisce about how it was once possible to download all of Bible Black both free of charge and without facing sexual deviancy charges.
Or 4chan will do something stupid and awesome and things will go back to the way they were. Whatever.
are you confessing
on the bible, sir
Bible Black? wait, the game or the animation? It's part of my research!
^