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VPN provider bans BitTorrent after getting sued by film studios
- Pooge 5y agoHow do providers check that the traffic is BitTorrent? I've always wondered.
- sfe22 5y agoIt says they will use firewall, so i would assume blocking the default port and maybe known trackers.
- bravetraveler 5y agoTrackers are usually relatively well known and traffic to those specifically may be dropped Otherwise, packet inspection on network devices should be able to discern the traffic. I'm not well versed in this area anymore, but you can tell from the contents/patterns of packets that this source and that destination are using a given protocol. I don't believe this type of traffic is encrypted - and the VPN provider has to decapsulate the traffic at some point :)
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoI heard sometimes they are part of the peers upload/downloading the torrent content and they just get a list of all the other peers they're connected to and send DMCAs to each of them. edit: I misread your comment. I was talking about the copyright holders not VPN providers.
- consumer451 5y agoThe VPN provider is TorGuard for the lazy.
- 0des 5y agoInteresting considering how long they advertised directly on ThePirateBay
- oonerspism 5y agoSounds like a double-edged sword.
- testesttest 5y agoRIP torguard
- nomel 5y agoWhy? Doesn't think prove that their customers are actually protected, unlike the many other popular VPNs?
- testesttest 5y agoIt proves they are based out of the US and lost a court case. If I owned the company I would do the same if nothing else but to preserve capital.
- nomel 5y agoThe fact that they lost a court case, rather than the users, says something about their implementation. There were several VPNs where this was not the case.
- qeternity 5y agoEncrypted BitTorrent traffic over non-BitTorrent ports is about to skyrocket.