Verizon FIOS flagged me for using torrents..WTF?

[Ilya]

@crAppAchic0

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.

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.

@jdaniels

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.

Didn’t know that. Good to know.

@HudsonFalcon

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.

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.