Re: Penalising downloaders


"Les Invalides" <Les@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:jp77OaAeLA0HFwhV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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?

Yes, stop using P2P.

There, that wasn't difficult now, was it?

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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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    ... I've recently been trying to discover how to stop users on a network using P2P. ... How, then, should I respond to an warning from my ISP that I must stop it or lose my connection? ... If it's your network, it's your responsibility to control it to prevent illegal activity. ...
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  • Re: Penalising downloaders
    ... 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. ... 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? ...
    (uk.legal)
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    ... 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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