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Internet users could be banned over illegal downloads
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As I already mentioned - simply utilize an encrypted VPN = no worries.
Regardless of what I'm doing online - I don't like the 'ability' of prying-eyes; and as such I utilize a secure VPN for most all my communications (be they business or personal).
So long as the connection though your ISP is encrypted - they are NOT able to 'see' what you're transmitting = they can't see what you're doing; thus they can't be expected to 'report' your activities.
Regardless of what I'm doing online - I don't like the 'ability' of prying-eyes; and as such I utilize a secure VPN for most all my communications (be they business or personal).
So long as the connection though your ISP is encrypted - they are NOT able to 'see' what you're transmitting = they can't see what you're doing; thus they can't be expected to 'report' your activities.
But isn't it the music/film companies who collect IP info and pass it onto the ISPs? So if you get contacted by your ISP it isn't because you were just using Bit Torrent rather it's because you were using it to download illegal content.
So, I don't know much about this arena, but I thought that the reason why everyone has been lighting up with torrents is because they're distributed and faster to download, the price being that they're not "anonymous."
Wouldn't doing this just shift the flow of traffic back to more "anonymous" P2P protocols from the days when you didn't seed your file but hosted it from your desktop? IIRC, these were easier to mask weren't they (the old Napster/LimeWire way)?
Wouldn't doing this just shift the flow of traffic back to more "anonymous" P2P protocols from the days when you didn't seed your file but hosted it from your desktop? IIRC, these were easier to mask weren't they (the old Napster/LimeWire way)?
This is a perfectly serviceable screen door solution, but I hope you don't think it constitutes foolproof security. It will protect you against peer snooping and probably still most semantic traffic analysis, but not against an attacker with broad network control and a targeted interest in your individual activities.
The sort of attack that would reveal your activities through Black Logic could plausibly be automated, rendering it worse than useless insofar as you're routing your traffic through a single choke point that, given the present "opt-in" security paradigm, calls attention to the possibility you might be hiding something by your very use of it. Using a site like this could backfire and get you scrutinized more.
Incidentally, if you read their TOS, Black Logic explicitly doesn't have your back in the event you're doing anything illegal. The extent of legalistic butt-covering they do is pretty funny when you contrast it with the "l33t bl4ck h4t haxx0r" motif they're going for with the rest of the site.
Use it if it makes you feel better about your legitimate activities, but if you've got something you really need to hide, relying on this is a bad idea.
Tea has caffeine too you know.
Yes but in significantly smaller quantities, not to mention i only drink one cup a day in the morning usually.
I don't think this will go through. Mainly because it would probably cost those ISP's a lot of money to do it especially when you factor in the [millions of] people doing this.
I'm not aware of many legit companies that would/will/could publicly 'endorse' supporting illegal activities - or of any that would 'have your back'...
If you look at the direction of the way it's being monitored - the types of files you DL would set-off alerts with your ISP - and then your ISP would in turn be obligated to report the violation to xxxxx. If operating under an encrypted VPN - then the ISP wouldn't be notified of the suspected traffic...thus wouldn't have to report anything. Point being - obviously the ISP that routes your data could decipher and view the encrypted data that's being passed onto your IP through their network - however they don't want to...thus they aren't going to go out of their way to target/trap their paying customers. The ISP's would only do the absolute minimum they would be required to by law; as they know reporting their paying customers will only hurt their profits due to lost customers resulting in lost revenue.
Outta sight; outta mind...