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Bohandas

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Please sign a petition opposing major ISPs' scheme to spy on their customers
« on: February 26, 2013, 03:24:06 pm »
Several major Internet Service Providers are currently conspiring to spy on their customers as part of the MPAA and RIAA's latest petty and heavy-handed scheme to over-enforce their worthless copyrights. Please sign a petition telling them that we won't stand for being spied on:

http://act.demandprogress.org/act/six_strikes_2013/%3Freferring_akid%3Da8143153.1991293.9Tq2N3%26source%3Dauto-e
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Re: Please sign a petition opposing major ISPs' scheme to spy on their customers
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2013, 05:33:55 pm »
Nobody is spying on anyone.  Content providers are connecting to torrents and making a list of the IPs connected to them (this is publicly available information). Then, they emails the ISP with the IP and the ISP does everything after that.
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Re: Please sign a petition opposing major ISPs' scheme to spy on their customers
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2013, 12:56:03 am »
I live in Canada and I once got an email about a torrent I was connected to because it had "Harry Potter" in the download list.

Mind you I wasn't downloading Harry Potter it is just that the Torrent had a lot of downloads and a Harry Potter book and game was part of one of the possible things I could have got.

It was weird.
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Re: Please sign a petition opposing major ISPs' scheme to spy on their customers
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2013, 01:12:57 am »
I've never really looked into this because Frontier (my ISP) doesn't seem to give a shit about anything and doesn't seem to have any plans about copyright enforcement. First thing about this that bothers me is not the "spying" or privacy violations. It's the 35$ charge to the customer to contest false accusations (there will be a lot of false accusations, just look how shitty other automated copyright enforcing systems are).

Meanwhile the revenue of various VPN services increases, and more people switch to rapidshare and other sources that are less transparent. Torrenting is fast, but it is a pretty stupid way of illegally doing something. This will just breed smarter pirates.
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