I just got a call from my Internet service provider(FIOS) saying that i’ve been flagged for downloading a Star Wars movie via torrent threatening me with termination. I have been using Torrents for years without a problem. Has anyone else have this happen to them? :eek3
nice to know they are spying on your content. maybe next time they will have an issue with the amount of internet porn you google. sounds like bs to me.
damn that fucking blows :skid
Verizon has been known to nail your ass for torrents and they will turn your name over. Time warner doesn’t give a shit what you do.
I got a letter a few years ago from TW about high bandwidth usage related to possible P2P, Torrenting, etc.
I then switched to uTorrent which masks the content it is downloading so the ISP can’t tell what’s being downloaded.
Switch to a better torrent client.
You can enable client encryption and even ignore non-encrypted peers- also, many times their alerts based off of port-specific traffic, so you can enable port ‘randomization’ on your torrent client also.
It’s not so much your ISP wanting to do it, it’s obligatory. There are seeds out there set as bait to capture IP addresses, once captured, they (copyright owner, RIAA, etc) reports the batch of IP addresses and letters are sent out.
Since their are relatively fewer FIOS customers due to availability maybe you’re easier to track? A friend of mine from Rotterdam is in the teraflop range in terms of torrent content on his HD and has never had a problem. I find i funny that they send you a threatening termination letter. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
This too. Don’t use the standard port. As long as you set your client correctly and port forward correctly (when needed) so the client can work 100% effectively…you’ll be fine.
Plus, not sure if this helps…but I have my TW cable modem/router passing info from my router. The TW modem is setup with a DMZ so it does NOTHING but pass data. Perhaps this also prevents TW from seeing exactly what I’m doing.
Didn’t know that. Good to know.
Damn that’s a lot. I’m still under 3TB between music, games, and movies. Then again, I used to burn everything I downloaded (when hard drives were 500GB :lol). I regret it now…because there is no way I’m re-ripping some of those old movies back to my HDD. Would take forever.
^ That. Basically any BT client should have those features.
i use uTorrent and have port randomization on but can’t find anything in preferences about client encryption. am i looking in the wrong place?
I always use UTorrent and dont have communist issues with it.
It’s under “BitTorrent” in preferences.
Yeah he’s basically downloading files non-stop. From what I’ve read this is how they get wise to illicit file sharing, the constant high bandwidth usage for weeks, months, years, etc.
This has been a growing trend, did they specifically state what torrents you were downloading? If it was just a threat for using P2P applications theres not much they can do legally as Utorrent and many others is a legal and legitimate way some places distribute content.
As daniels said its possible you got a baited torrent, that does happen.
Unfortunately this is going to be a growing trend among ISP’s in the future. Many are underway of signing deals with Anti-Piracy organizations to monitor internet traffic and warn/terminate customers who are in violation. Also with the growing trend of streaming media outlets and P2P sharing many that have not done so already are looking at capping bandwidth/throttling traffic. I know TWC tested it with some outrage by customers who were thrown into that little experiment, the funny thing is capping and slowing down bandwidth does nothing to stop congestion.
Yeah they also pulled the Digital Millennium Copyright Act card and knew exactly what i torrented/file size and the stamped time thru the monitor.
I’m going to find other ways to download content for a few weeks and then slowly switch over back to uTorrent with the encryption on to see what happens.
I heard seeding will raise the chance for you to get flagged greatly so i’m gonna make sure not to seed movies from now on :skid
Yeah, if you aren’t ‘hiding your stuff’…seeding is what gets you…as not many people upload gigs of data. That’s how they know someone is doing something bad. That’s why when you order service, they give you crazy download speeds but not that great of an upload speed. For most people, 5GB upload is overkill because if all you’re doing is uploading photos, etc. it takes seconds. For me, 5GB is torture :lol. I’m at 30/5 right now…wish it was 30/15 or something.
I only seed in spurts. Maybe 24 hours straight…then stop for like 80 hours, etc.
Same here - I’ll seed, unthrottled, for a few hours, then pause them all; on and off. you can schedule it on some clients, but it’s better to randomize the traffic as opposed the setting any sort of pattern for traffic analyzers to pick up on.