Abuse warning for p2p use

dam0cles

I know bt are known for this in the UK, so i probs should have expected it, but I got a nice friendly phonecall from my isp, esat/bt telling me to uninstall bittorrent. An uncomfortable sounding tech told me they had got an abuse complaint from paramount pictures regarding a movie being distributed from my ip address using that application.

Perhaps just a matter of stopping uploads in the future, but have many others got a similar call?

(this might not be proper forum to discuss the above, if so, soz)

Boston

Originally posted by dam0cles

Perhaps just a matter of stopping uploads in the future, but have many others got a similar call?

If you stop uploading, bittorrent will stop working for you. Simple as that really. And you should update your IP filter.

peckerhead

I got a slap over the wrist for similar reasons, a while back.

Thanks be to Jaysus,
(a) it was after "business hours", so me was just the diligent employee going the extra mile at my desk,
(b) the movie file being uploaded was in no way hairy, it was just killing our bandwith
(b) the IT head could vouch for the fact that I'd no way of knowing my connection was being used as a "supernode". And I promised to desist forthwith.

Suggest you do the same, and disable uploads (if bittorrent lets you?)

ph

Boston

Originally posted by peckerhead
I got a slap over the wrist for similar reasons, a while back.

Thanks be to Jaysus,
(a) it was after "business hours", so me was just the diligent employee going the extra mile at my desk,
(b) the movie file being uploaded was in no way hairy, it was just killing our bandwith
(b) the IT head could vouch for the fact that I'd no way of knowing my connection was being used as a "supernode". And I promised to desist forthwith.

Suggest you do the same, and disable uploads (if bittorrent lets you?)

ph

couple of things, thats kazaa or somethign similiar, thats also your job, and the bittorrent network works on uploads, you download speed is dependent on you'r upload speed,

dam0cles

Originally posted by Boston
And you should update your IP filter.

explain? i'm kinda new when it comes to this stuff.

i'm on the business bb thing, and have a fixed ip, if that makes any difference.

Rancid

Originally posted by dam0cles
I know bt are known for this in the UK, so i probs should have expected it, but I got a nice friendly phonecall from my isp, esat/bt telling me to uninstall bittorrent. An uncomfortable sounding tech told me they had got an abuse complaint from paramount pictures regarding a movie being distributed from my ip address using that application.

Perhaps just a matter of stopping uploads in the future, but have many others got a similar call?

(this might not be proper forum to discuss the above, if so, soz)

Isn't that what Peer Guardian is supposed to protect you from?

Smithers

wat i used to do was burn what i had downloaded right after it finished and delete it from my syetem , or else i connected external storage , and disconnected it when i transferred over

you should try protowall, http://bluetack.co.uk/pw.html ,
but I think its a bit fiddly to setup.

RobertFoster

Originally posted by Smithers
wat i used to do was burn what i had downloaded right after it finished and delete it from my syetem , or else i connected external storage , and disconnected it when i transferred over

That's how I used to download MP3s in college, straight to my player - but it would still copy to a temp folder (which would take longer than the download sometimes) - I thought I would get caught, but they didn't seem to mind me downloading 72 tracks in the space of 2 and a half weeks

RuggieBear

Managed to download about 10gigs of stuff when i was in college at Leicester Uni. It was part of some sort of 3rd level super node thingie so the download speeds were simply awsome....700mb in less than an hour and the like....used bearshare IIRC!

Used to just do it in the evening in my lab as i had a key and then burn stuff to cd....

Eventually got a visit from the College IT services people as i was using up most of their bandwidth one or two nights and i just went to downloading the odd thing here or there.


p