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and I bet those "over a dozen" people are also their highest in terms of bandwidth use. Smart pirates use vpns anyways.
by dawnerd 8y ago
and I bet those "over a dozen" people are also their highest in terms of bandwidth use.
Smart pirates use vpns anyways.
- Spivak 8y agoISP sees high amounts of traffic over a public VPN and kicks you off their network for suspicious activity. You go to appeal it in one of their 'courts' and since there aren't really any rules the burden of proof is on you. You really were pirating so such positive proof doesn't really exist and you're off the internet for good.
- craftyguy 8y agoThere are perfectly legitimate reasons for 'consuming' a large amount of bandwidth. For example, I help seed a number of Linux distro ISOs over bittorrent, and once got a letter from my absolute shit of an ISP (Frontier, if you are reading this, it's you).
- RankingMember 8y agoReminds me of when Comcast throttled bittorrent across the board.
- Spivak 8y agoPlenty of legitimate usage, I'm talking about the fact that masking your traffic with a VPN isn't really protection when these 'courts' can demand you prove you weren't pirating content in order to restore your service. So getting away with piracy by way of plausible deniability is much harder.
- dawnerd 8y agoThey’re not real courts so no they can’t demand you to prove anything. I don’t know where you’re coming from but it’s nothing but unsubstantiated fear.
- Spivak 8y agoForget the term courts. An ISP is within their rights to refuse to do business with you on the suspicion that you are a suspected pirate. If you then decide to go through their process they are also within their rights to continue not doing business with you until you voluntarily turn over evidence that you were in-fact not pirating content. And since, for me at least, if I got my internet shut off I would pretty much have to move that's plenty of coercive power.
- ddingus 8y agoVPN + YouTube
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