At least where I live, you pay for internet. If you don't follow their rules, they cut you off. Here, the internet is a business like any other and they can refuse to do business with you.
I don't agree with it, but it's still fair and legal because it's their product.
Except their goals are to do so if they THINK you're pirating. If I'm not pirating, but have a lot of internet traffic (say I'm playing Planetside 2 for a few hours, which hogs bandwidth), the way they WANT to do it, they can put the restrictions in place there and then. If they don't have actual PROOF someone is doing anything illegal, but put restrictions on their internet anyway, then it ISN'T fair, and unless they changed my contract with them, through all the appropriate channels, and I agreed to it, they would be in breach of contract.
when is that google internet and tv gonna come out of kansas or wherever it is thats super fast and super private or whatever O-O
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
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I know for a fact Cox won't. They've sent me like... 5 emails over the years saying that I'm pirating and need to stop.
There are good people in every corner of the planet. Unfortunately, the Earth is round.
512kb/s is 0,5mbps. 512kB/s is 4mbps
I doubt they would take action based on bandwith. An hour of watching youtube hd clips takes maybe more than ripped movie (not Blu-Ray ). But since people put shit on the internet and don't even try to name the files differently than the movie/software title is... it's not that hard to know who is pirating because your ISP logs every single thing you do on the Internet.
I live in Central Europe and it happens that sometimes American companies are sending tells to our internet providers if some of their customers are downloading the movies via torrent ! I can't imagine what they are up to in the US.
okay so according to this http://www.copyrightinformation.org/alerts it only applies to p2p downloads (torrents) and that they have to contact your isp with your ip first O-O
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
FC: 3437-3046-3552
just to clear up a few things:
when you buy internet, you are buying access to a private network, so yes, it's perfectly legal for them to monitor what you are doing
also, they are using packet inspection, which means a proxy wont work, you will need a VPN service with decent encryption
last i read on the six strikes, you can still get a strike if someone files a claim against you, they don't have to prove that claim
I declare that Rukentuts is an evil pirate and needs to be kicked off the internet. Proof? I don't need proof, I'm an entertainment company, my word is enough. Just get rid of him.
They already are immune to lawsuits under the safe harbor provisions. One could argue by taking this action, they are violating the terms of those provisions and opening themselves up to lawsuits.
i dont see how this is any different then normal really the thing says that they have to first figure out your ip (most people who torrent things know how easy it is to hide to hide your ip) and tell your isp that they think your pirating and it only applies to torrents not streaming or downloads or anything like that.
doesnt seem very different to me O-O maybe a few dumb people who steal stuff without taking measures will get caught but thats who they said they were after anyways
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
FC: 3437-3046-3552
It is actually quite accurate. You did not pay for something that you now own/possess that is illegal for you to gain without paying for a fee. You acquired something through a means which did not compensate the owner.
So yes. It is STOLEN. You took something that did not previously belong to you without providing an agreed upon compensation for said item.
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
FC: 3437-3046-3552
Yes this is legal in the US. If you don't like it go use a VPN.
I fail to see the issue. It isn't like internet is a right in the US.
If you are using a service and you are conducting illegal activities, the ISP is well within its own rights to limit or refuse such service.
Tell me how the internet is a private network.
And you do not "buy" "internet"
You rent the abilities to use their cables and DNS servers to rout yourself to other servers which will fulfill requests and send you html/js/css/etc code to render a webpage and then you go from there. In the case of websites at least.
You have taken something from... the company who developed the software. You have obtained a product for free that would have otherwise cost you money, rewarding this software company for their time, their intellectual property. The fish bowl analogy of "but bestbuy still has a copy on the shelf" says NOTHING about how it affects the people who were paid for their time to write the software and the company who paid these wages.