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.

Very easy.
Block all outbound connections , run all web traffic through a proxy server and block P2P that way.

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?

Well you'll almost certainly know who's using your connection and what they are doing , so tell them not to do anything illegal :0)


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Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger , then I hide until it goes away"

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