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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
They just use traffic shapers to figure out how much of their networks are being used for Bittorrent, list the IPs on their network that are the biggest offenders, have the software verify that the traffic is in fact "Twilight.[2008.English].V2.TS.HQ.DivX-LTT" instead of "Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS", and fire off a bunch of automated emails.
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I am a bit confused, lol. What if the file I was downloading was indeed "Twilight" but was named "12345.avi"? Would the ISP be able to tell that I was illegally downloading copyrighted material? What if it was a .rar file that required a password to uncompress the file?
I dunno, I am not not a "wizard" when it come to this stuff, but it seems as if this is more whack a mole type activity. What if I were to use TOR? And isn't there some new protocol that allows people to download files without needing to access torrent sites (I seem to remember something about that from an another post) ? I am assuming this is largely aimed at torrents, since the popular perception seems to be that all torrents are evil.
What I would like to know is how the IPS would always be able to determine that I am downloading bad stuff. Would merely going to Pirate Bay and grabbing a torrent be possible grounds (even if I were downloading a Linux distro)?
The article seems to imply that if ISPs "think" that one "might" have downloaded illegal content that they can send a notice.