Comments on: EFF Tool Hunts BitTorrent Throttling ISPs

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:36:22 +0000

What some do not know is that, once Comcast has locked onto your IP addy because you are torrenting (and they are throttling) they WILL disrupt other services. If we have a torrent running here at the house, forget being on a MUSH,MUCK,MUD, MOO,MUX of any kind. (simple telnet) We are talking about disconnects every minute and a half, (timed). Worse at certain times, but mostly bad all over.

Comcast will not stop, not until people get outraged enough to get a REAL suit against them. (We are talking major money here, like a subscriber wide class action suit). Or the FCC stops being a sissy slap hand legislative limp dick. Yeah sure they will go after you if you broadcast a micro TV station in rural BFE, but when it comes to the money makers, nothing will ever happen.

People need to stop beating around the bush and unite against the corrupt legislators and the company’s that only look out for money for there investors and CEO’s and not there customers. (Think back how it was 50 years ago. You gave bad service you went out of business.)

Nuff said.

By: mohammed

mohammed — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:09:07 +0000

im from south africa- internet costs here are around the 3rd highest in the world- and what we get in return is pathetic. anyway what id like to point out is that theres many people like me- we will not go to the cinema to see a movie, we will not even hire the movie at the video store when its released there. so these movie companies are not losing a “prospective customer” – i either watch it for free or not at all. im not so desperate that ill pay money for movies. i can do without it- so they should lighten up- its not like they are poor.

By: Yatti

Yatti — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:01:25 +0000

Lets not forget Rogers\Bell, up here in Canada..

By: AvangionQ

AvangionQ — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:58:55 +0000

Excellent — if its compatible with what I use, I want to try it out … what P2P apps does this software work with?

By: h33t

h33t — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:12:00 +0000

http://piratepartyuk.org

still inactive and full of pr0n spam

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:59:30 +0000

@51
Indeed, there needs to be something like massive file-sharing conventions or things like that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:34:18 +0000

everyone teach your grandparents how to download stuff they would never stop thier uploads, and seriously, how bad could it be if they got caught? muahahaha

By: Izumi-sensei

Izumi-sensei — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:46 +0000

@41
“chan boards were designed as imageboards”

I guess 4chan has lead to a bad name among all possible *chans. But no, I designed my board to be for useful discussion.

“We need public awareness and education, and links to informational sites posted on pro-piracy torrent index sites.”

That’s what I think the biggest problem is. The RIAA etc. spend so much money on “educating the public,” and in school, kids learn that “piracy is bad.” If there was some way the schools could change, and teach the opposite.

By: oneplusone

oneplusone — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:41:05 +0000

izumi sensei, are you Rachel Faith Anderson?

By: turn it on leave it on

turn it on leave it on — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:41:27 +0000

Full encryption ftw!
And set the flag while your at it.

By: bo

bo — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:14:09 +0000

you cna this kind of try

By: kebo

kebo — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:34:15 +0000

By: Not you, but me.

Not you, but me. — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:23:26 +0000

@ 41: ADVISORY MAKES YOUR OPINION LESS ATTRACTIVE TO READ.

Seriously, is four paragraphs a wall of text? You would think adding more than a sentence or two would help to both clarify your opinion and decrease redundancy. Anyway, to summarize my opinion in a more familiar and “easy” format.

We need public awareness and education, and links to informational sites posted on pro-piracy torrent index sites.

By: Izkata

Izkata — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:19:30 +0000

@1, 2, 34: WALL OF TEXT NOT READ

..Plus, chan boards were designed as imageboards, not conversation tools. So using one for conversation does indeed make it look like you’re just trying to spy and don’t fully understand the medium you’re using.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:11:11 +0000

I don’t know when this issue began in courts/suits… but it seems to me that the US courts/government didn’t care about Comcast’s throttling until the AT&T scandal came to light.

This might just be a distraction technique — thoughts?

Or am I relying on too-simple thinking and bad facts?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:31:14 +0000

oh yeah lets kill all the pirates…

thats the dumbest shit ever,

you wanna see the world expand and our civilization grow? then information should be freely and openly shared and copied, it is by very definition the meaning of the internet, let its vast resources grow to include all ideas and information in the world.

Greedy ass money grubbing bastards, the world will never change.

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:47:41 +0000

Outstanding, the EFF does it again! Way to go EFF.

JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

By: Al

Al — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:34:39 +0000

The FCC was “incoherent”…
http://www.circleid.com/posts/88103_fcc_comcast_ruling_inconsistent_incoherent/

“So it’s OK to prioritize VoIP. That means it’s OK to de-prioritize everything that’s not VoIP, and the only way you can determine which is which is by inspecting packets to see what protocol carries them. But the Commission says you can’t do that…”

They are criminalizing normal network management practices. We’ll all suffer because they won’t be able to deal with bottlenecks.

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:07:08 +0000

No need to get wet dreams kiddies. All the ISPs will do is add to their contract that they have the right to throttle heavy users and its business as usual.

By: Not you, but me.

Not you, but me. — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:58:17 +0000

Sorry about all the typos above, I’m starting my internet rants early this morning. =)