[Narz]

They closed demonoid.com.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'T')hey can't. It's a business decision. As long as the cost to increase bandwidth is less than the cost to do content filtering P2P will go on.

[kabu]

If that's what your ISP's doing then just go into Azureus or whatever and switch up yer ports.

[smallpoxgirl]

Looks like the answer to my question is that ISPs are doing that and the torrenters are responding by jumping ports.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')SPs have been increasingly reducing the available bandwidth for P2P users on the standard file-sharing port ranges. You may find you need to keep changing your port on a regular basis. This is normal, and a port change should sort you out if this is indeed what is happening.

[strider3700]

it's not that difficult to check packets as they go by as to their content. So you could filter bittorrent packets easy enough. I don't know how expensive the hardware is going to be but I remember hearing about it a few years back so it should be available by now.

[CarnbY]

If one ISP were to start blocking pirated data (to put it in simple terms) everyone would just switch to an ISP that doesn't, and nobody wants to lose business...

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 'i')t's not that difficult to check packets as they go by as to their content. So you could filter bittorrent packets easy enough. I don't know how expensive the hardware is going to be but I remember hearing about it a few years back so it should be available by now.

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 't')he wife and daughter burn CD's every weekend.

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 'i')t's not that difficult to check packets as they go by as to their content. So you could filter bittorrent packets easy enough. I don't know how expensive the hardware is going to be but I remember hearing about it a few years back so it should be available by now.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'Y')ou really want to stop this?

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'Y')ou really want to stop this?

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'M')aybe you can recoup your lose by canceling your cable service (If you have that) and join us... not to go John Gault on you or anything.

[gampy]

I am in the "sometimes / occasionally" camp. Mostly porn, and some music, occasional software. Not too worried about getting hassled for downloading copyrighted porn. It's hard / impossible to prosecute file sharing in Canada.

My own opinion is that intellectual property, copyright, and piracy issues are a very gray area. I think the paradigm and notion of intellectual property needs to change. People need to realize that the genie is out of the bottle. Record companies, film studios, and other producers of traditional media (CD's, DVD's, and other hard media) need to change their business model, or look at getting out of the business of selling hard media. Movies will always do well, because people like to gather in a large theater, and view films with other people. The music business is beginning to see that the revenues are shifting to live performance. People don't buy CD's anymore. These entities are dinosaurs and will go the way of such. Just a fact of life, nothing can be done really. They can bust a few folks in the hope of creating a deterrence, but it's a lost cause. EMI, and the other majors are in a serious pickle and will need to change their business model to survive.

A lot of bands are starting to look at their recordings as advertising for their live performances. Instead of how it used to be, touring was a way to drum up record sales. Which is actually better for artists. Most musicians make their dough from performing live, not record sales. It's the middle men who stand to lose in this new era.

Regardless, there are copyright laws on the books, so sharing someone's copyrighted work is technically wrong. Technically being the key word. Morally? Ethically? I am not so sure.

[gampy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 't')here are very very few legit reasons to need these new ultra high bandwidth connections that ISP's are pushing these days. The lite version of a cable connection up here would still be more then fast enough for web surfing, email and sharing pictures with relatives.

The X-treme connection is way faster then what I currently have and it has way more up and down each month. frankly without piracy we'd mostly still be on dialup.

Also remember that a huge percentage of that bittorrent data is porn. The internet's first killer app.

[lys3rg0]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'Y')ou really want to stop this?

[lys3rg0]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', 'I') am in the "sometimes / occasionally" camp. Mostly porn

[Schadenfreude]

Amazing! I was just able to torrent Wolram's Mathematica6.

Wish I'd had it years ago when I was studying Calculus and Ord Diff and all that.

Looks like so much fun, I just might pick up a math text just so I can fool with the equations in it.

[gampy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', 'I') am in the "sometimes / occasionally" camp. Mostly porn

[davep]

It's quite common for ISPs to throttle P2P traffic, as a few links upthread show.

However, if you're determined, it's also quite easy to get round it.

If you can get access via an SSH session to a computer that doesn't have throttling, you can send and receive your data via an encrypted protocol. It's the other server that sends out the P2P traffic. The ISPs routers shouldn't be throttling SSH traffic, so you can get full-speed access.

When I finally get ADSL installed in this godforsaken rural hellhole, I've already got an SSH server set up in another jurisdiction for just that purpose

[steam_cannon]

Something amusing...