Penalising downloaders

From: Les Invalides <Les@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:42:38 +0000

As we know, TPTB are considering imposing a regime under which persistent sharers of copyright material will ultimately have their Internet accounts closed.

I've recently been trying to discover how to stop users on a network using P2P. It turns out there *is* no reliable way. I thought it would be a matter of blocking ports on the router, but apparently many of these filesharing packages use port 80, which you can't block without also cutting off Web access.

So in practice, I have no way of stopping it, apart from not allowing anybody but myself to use the connection. How, then, should I respond to an (as yet hypothetical) warning from my ISP that I must stop it or lose my connection? Any ideas?

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Les Invalides
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... sharers of copyright material will ultimately have their Internet accounts closed. ... I've recently been trying to discover how to stop users on a network using P2P. ... I thought it would be a matter of blocking ports on the router, but apparently many of these filesharing packages use port 80, which you can't block without also cutting off Web access. ... How, then, should I respond to an warning from my ISP that I must stop it or lose my connection? ...
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Re: Penalising downloaders
... I've recently been trying to discover how to stop users on a network using P2P. ... I thought it would be a matter of blocking ports on the router, but apparently many of these filesharing packages use port 80, which you can't block without also cutting off Web access. ... How, then, should I respond to an warning from my ISP that I must stop it or lose my connection? ...
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