Article: BitTorrent Crackdown Center Prepares to Punish Pirates

[mjmacky]

I'd pay money for non-DRM torrents rather than get discs in the mail for free, trueness.

How much you offerin'?

Dollar an episode

[manker]

It's a huge scam, and now it seems EVERYONE who gets a letter will have to pay a minimum of $35 to prove their innocence.

I'm not getting that at all.

You can choose to clear your name, if you wish and it will cost $35, but there is no point. You get a further five warnings before your IP can take measures like traffic shaping or disconnections. Measures that many ISPs already commonly undertake if they detect torrent traffic.

On the face of it, this is a good thing for US torrenteers.

[megabyteme]

On the face of it, this is a good thing for US torrenteers.

Look at the notorious scumbags who each have a hand in this. It is a moneymaker, and a HUGE one at that. The ISPs have thus far been the wall standing between the downloaders and the money-seeking Industries. Now they will be working TOGETHER. Bad. Bad. Bad.

[EricPost]

If the ISPs wanted to end piracy all they have to do is start charging by actual usage. Charge so much per month per mb and that'd kill off all piracy. Since no pirates would most likely get a smaller bill they'd love it

[manker]

On the face of it, this is a good thing for US torrenteers.

Look at the notorious scumbags who each have a hand in this. It is a moneymaker, and a HUGE one at that. The ISPs have thus far been the wall standing between the downloaders and the money-seeking Industries. Now they will be working TOGETHER. Bad. Bad. Bad.

The glass is half full, mbm

Internet service providers are a powerful bunch and collectively employ more people, I'm talking American stats because this isn't affecting the UK or other places that don't matter so much, than the entire movie industry. They also have the free trade ethos firmly behind them, which is something I hear you guise take completely seriously. If a judge considers that a restriction of trade has been put on any particular ISP, then that restriction will be repealed. And quickly.

This is a compromise whereupon the ISPs have said to the representatives of the movie industry that they will pay lip-service to them in a public way which will scare a lot of individuals into renouncing piracy, but the reality is that the measures they are prepared to take are less punative than the ones already in place.

This works especially well for the ISPs too, because while their customers clamoured to switch after receiving a solitary warning letter, now it will be widely known that they can receive up to SIX of them before it becomes an issue.

In summary; this is absolutely fine if you're not a reactionary.

[megabyteme]

In summary; this is absolutely fine if you're not a reactionary.

I'm not being reactionary, I'm just saying, "Burn them to the ground and eat their children before they start doing this". That's all.

[ilcantar]

I have to ask.
If I am just using a webui (rutorrent) for my seedbox and do not have a torrent client installed on my pc will this monitoring bullshit pick up the webui or do you actually have to be running utorrent ect. on you pc through your home connection to get monitored. As far as the downloading via ftp from the seedbox I would assume that would be under the radar. Let me hear what you think.

[mjmacky]

In summary; this is absolutely fine if you're not a reactionary.

I'm not being reactionary, I'm just saying, "Burn them to the ground and eat their children before they start doing this". That's all.

Can I borrow them before they're eaten?

[OldIronTits]

I have to ask.
If I am just using a webui (rutorrent) for my seedbox and do not have a torrent client installed on my pc will this monitoring bullshit pick up the webui or do you actually have to be running utorrent ect. on you pc through your home connection to get monitored. As far as the downloading via ftp from the seedbox I would assume that would be under the radar. Let me hear what you think.

Running your webui on your PC will not directly get you in any trouble.

You only can be prosecuted in the US for SHARING ("uploading"). Downloading is fine. The servers of your seedbox are doing the sharing. If the courts go after your seedbox server, they (the seedbox company) give you up & provide facts of a contract between you and them for seedboxing, only then can you possibly get in trouble. Having said that, I have not heard of any reports of such (specific) cases executed anywhere in the world.

[stan]

Safer to have a non-USA box and seedbox company nowadays.