Do you have a Torrent downloader in your house?

[Mrs Mungo]

Article on new steps against piracy:

http://lifehacker.com/5986961/the-copyright-alert-system-how-the-new-six-strikes-anti+piracy-program-works

[datgh]

We don't have one in our house but we had someone at our homeschool coop. We meet at a church and coop members use the church's internet service while we are there. Twice the church received notices from their internet provider threatening to discontinue their service because of illegal down loading of copywrited material. The internet provider could provide exact day and time the incidents happened. They always happened on coop days. The church took away the internet privilege from the coop and it was very embarrassing for all us members. The sad part is that everyone was looking at the teens with a lot of suspicion. My son included. It turned out that a Mom didn't realize her son (11 years old) had downloaded the Bit torrent program because his friend told him it would help him download games. Every time this Mom came to the coop and booted up her computer it started trying to finish downloading the game. She had no idea her computer was doing it. Moral of the story is Moms beware of what your kids are using your computer for.

[NCMom]

Article on new steps against piracy:

http://lifehacker.co...y-program-works

 

Seems to amount to not much more than a slap on the wrist for most of the providers that have laid out their "plans".

 

 

Georgia

[Mrs Mungo]

But that is just the providers. Once they can track you, then they can let the companies sue you instead of the companies suing the ISPs. That is the real risk.

 

ed for typo and clarification.

[NCMom]

But that is just the providers. Once they can track you, then they can let the companies she you instead of them. That is the real risk.

 

 

From the article:

"Your ISP won't even give up your personal information to the content partners unless it's required by law through a subpoena or court order. The most annoying thing that'll happen if you get caught is that your bandwidth might be throttled."

 

Not that I'm out there torrenting away or anything! And it's a good heads up for anyone who doesn't realize what they are doing when they are downloading this stuff. Which so far appears to be the only point to the CAS.

 

But really, my son's first major was comp sci; he's a Linux guru. Everyone he hangs out with has UTorrent running every second of the day and PB is their hero, lol, yet he knows of only one person who says they know someone who got a DCMA letter. Ever. Even after the LAST time they made an uproar about pirating. And apparently no one he knows is planning to quit openly torrenting until they have to, lol. CAS doesn't seem to make much of an impression in that quarter, at least.

 

It's just that it does seem sort of silly. There are plenty of ways around this and most of the more savvy people are already doing them, or will be soon enough (and your article lists many of them). I don't know what the answer is, but this probably isn't it, imho.

 

Georgia

[Mergath]

I won't say whether or not I've downloaded anything ;) but I think part of the problem is that when the music/movie companies do sue someone for illegal downloading, the amount is so ridiculous that no one takes it seriously. People think, "Right, like I could ever pay $500,000. If they come after me I'll just declare bankruptcy and get on with my life." But if they were to sue for, say, a hundred bucks a movie or song, it's enough to sting (who wants to pay a hundred bucks for something you could have gotten for five?) but a small enough amount that people would actually have to pay it. Because let's be realistic, no one is ever going to even attempt to pay half a million bucks to some movie company because they downloaded the newest Twilight movie off TPB.

[Mergath]

Don't some pc games require a torrent engine to download their games? How does that work?

 

Not that I've seen. ISPs track individual files, though. You can have uTorrent running day and night without problems as long as the files you download are legal.