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Eircom Blocking Illegal Downloading.

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  • 24-05-2010 1:24pm
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    Joebits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭


    I know there's so much different opinions on this but i'm not looking for any and I'm not giving mine either.

    My Question is How Will they know you're downloading illegally? Ok they can see how much your downloading. How do they know it's illegall content?

    Just looking for the technicality behind it.

    If you change your ip, they won't be able to see what you're downloading?

    Thanks,
    Joe


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    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Joebits wrote: »
    My Question is How Will they know you're downloading illegally? Ok they can see how much your downloading. How do they know it's illegall content?
    IP and perhaps deep packet inspection.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection
    If you change your ip, they won't be able to see what you're downloading?
    No. This would be done with the connivance of the ISP so they would have a record of the IP assigned to you and when it was assigned and dropped.

    Regards...jmcc


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    As far as I know they're not going to be blocking anything pro-actively
    They're meant to be acting on reports they receive from IRMA ...

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    mr.spids
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭mr.spids


    their blocking piratebay(dot)org but I just use vidallia and firepoxy lets me in just fine


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    mr.spids wrote: »
    their blocking piratebay(dot)org but I just use vidallia and firepoxy lets me in just fine

    Yes - from what I recall PirateBay was singled out by IRMA

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    CrinkElite
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 890 ✭✭✭CrinkElite


    mr.spids wrote: »
    their blocking piratebay(dot)org but I just use vidallia and firepoxy lets me in just fine

    As far as I know they are only blocking the domain name service for pirate bay, set your DNS to 208.67.222.222 / 208.67.220.220 (opendns.org) and you can still access it. careful tough, they're on the hunt. I reccomend changing your ISP. That'll teach em.
    You could also have a look at peerblock.com although I'm not sure how effective this would be in the face of ISP collaboration.


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    mr.spids
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭mr.spids


    how do you change your isp?cheers lad from galway myself


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    brian ireland
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    mr.spids wrote: »
    how do you change your isp?cheers lad from galway myself

    Your Internet Service Provider. So move from Eircom to UTV for example


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    mr.spids
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭mr.spids


    thanks mate wony be doin that anyway


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