I don’t live in the US, so this doesn’t affect me, but let me ask you this: How are the copyrighted files identified? I mean, I just downloaded the post game. How do their systems know I’m not downloading anything illegal? Some free software is distributed over p2p-networks. Are they considered illegal downloads by the systems? This is going to screw many people over.
I’m assuming it’s something similar to how they’ve been sending out their naughty-grams for a while now. They connect to a torrent tracker and see who’s seeding a certain movie/album/whatever, and then contact the ISP to find out who it is. They can do similar things with other P2P sharing methods. At least, this is my impression as to how it’s been working; I’ve never received one of their letters and don’t use public torrent trackers. I’m pretty sure the only new thing is the increased cooperation with the ISPs, to the eventual level of limiting bandwidth of “offenders”. I don’t think they have any ISP-side filters set up determining what files are verboten — yet.
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I don’t live in the US, so this doesn’t affect me, but let me ask you this: How are the copyrighted files identified? I mean, I just downloaded the post game. How do their systems know I’m not downloading anything illegal? Some free software is distributed over p2p-networks. Are they considered illegal downloads by the systems? This is going to screw many people over.
I’m assuming it’s something similar to how they’ve been sending out their naughty-grams for a while now. They connect to a torrent tracker and see who’s seeding a certain movie/album/whatever, and then contact the ISP to find out who it is. They can do similar things with other P2P sharing methods. At least, this is my impression as to how it’s been working; I’ve never received one of their letters and don’t use public torrent trackers. I’m pretty sure the only new thing is the increased cooperation with the ISPs, to the eventual level of limiting bandwidth of “offenders”. I don’t think they have any ISP-side filters set up determining what files are verboten — yet.