UK downloading prohibited

dpi, or deep packet inspection, exists..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/deep_packet_inspection

yes, it does. what's that got to do with the digital economy act though?

bt, british telecom, have already capped torrent speeds down to a couple kb/s. meaning that if i wanted to
even torrent legally i couldn't.

so ur saying that if for example a game uses a torrent for updates n stuff it would take ages for u to
download it? if thats the case then its sounds very illegal (or atleast it should be)

currently i'm living abroad and frankly i don't even know this country's exact laws governing
downloading torrents, i just assumed it would follow the general eu guidelines.

but at some point i'll be heading home to the uk and this news sucks big time!

even gladder now that i didn't give my precious vote to cameron and brown.

so *you're* to blame for the hung parliament... lol ^_^

well i'm up & down loading as much a possible now, before it comes in effect...

rss is my friend and vpn on standby 🙂

that's what it has to do with it. it is the system which is either in place or will be put in place (with rumours
that virgin media have tested it, though this has been denied:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/virgin_media_application_throttling_denial/)

if you keep reading though, you'll see that quite a few isp's already use dpi.

strange huh?

what the bill does is require isps to hand over customer details to copyright holders if the
copyright holders provide them with an ip address, removing the need for a court order. it's the
responsibility of the copyright holder to make the initial claim, and once they've got you they've
got you, no need for further dpi evidence.

the only way that dpi could be of any relevance would be if isps were forced to use it to
investigate infringement themselves. we haven't reached that stage yet. while the door has been left
open for further legislation that could make this a requirement, at present copyright holders have
to find your ip address and provide evidence of infringement before action can be taken.

is there any way of hiding what websites you are using ? ie peer guardian, peerblocker ?
i thought these were supposed to hide these websites from your isp

if you use a blocker, you can't use private trackers such as thebox or torrentday, at least as far as i
understand it.

anyway, it doesn't matter if they prohibit downloading or not. now that the technology is out there, it
will never stop. maybe someday soon some bright spark will come up with a new way to deceive your
isp.



in response to solitair:
yes, i assume full responsibility for the hung parliament ^_^
let's just hope mr long legged cleggy weggy fully understands how important torrents are to his
voters! if not, there are plenty of other parties begging for my vote: animals count (doesn't apply to
mps with their snouts in the trough), the legalize cannabis alliance, the rock 'n' roll loony party,...

oh gawdddd ... i have to stop torrentinggggggggggggggggggg .... anyone here knowz the theme song for
wwe's vince mcmahon????

its called ... no chance in hell ....

hi,

same laws are coming in all the eu

there is a way to pass thrue ip detection, it's direct download.

may be you could target direct download link instead of torrents.

the hardest things with direct download is to find a on line release...

serves them right for their choices in elections.