By not sharing or uploading anything will affect dl speed?
By not sharing or uploading anything will affect dl speed?
Originally Posted by Broken
Out of context? Putting words in your mouth? That was a direct quote, just truncated a bit.
And bastardizing? It was a simple reply stating my belief that you are wrong.
Which happens to be the truth. 0% p2p = 0% risk. Fact.
If you choose to participate in p2p, well then, the risk is proportionate to the activity. Also fact.
Some n00b seeing your post about not sharing being totally safe and thinking they are not liable for their actions,
now that would be taking your words out of context and in effect putting themselves at greater risk.
It gets so old shooting holes in poeples' thoeries.
I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile.
I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well.
I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave.
I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down.
thats not good...
If you read the DMCA downloading only is a gray area. It's not spelled out that it is ilegal to download without uploading. To date, no one has tested this gray area.
Until 'the powers that be' do sue someone for downloading only I would venture to say that it is legal.
The distribution of copyrighted materials over the internet for which the distributor (any server - including your personal computer) does not have permission may be a violation of a federal copyright law.
Violation of the DMCA (the online infringement of copyrighted material - upload/sharing), can be punished by up to 3 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Repeat offenders can be imprisoned up to 6 years. Individuals also may be held civilly liable (regardless of whether the activity is for profit) for actual damages or lost profits, or for statutory damages up to $150,000 per infringed copyright .
Nothing about downloading. Tons about distribution. So if you're not distributing your not breaking the law. That is of course as long as you have a copy of whatever it is your downloading... which we all do, of course.
source
http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
Last edited by Broken; 06-27-2006 at 05:57 AM.
So will a proxy like Findnot or Metropipe protect you? These services specifically say that when you BT over them, BT sees the proxy's IP (and a session key) instead of your IP. The proxy forwards the traffic to your IP using this session key. The BT observer has no way of using the session key to look up your IP .
If so, that is one safe way to use BT, provided one makes certain setting changes to Azureus or whatever BT client one uses. Feel free to poke holes.
Originally Posted by Broken
I'm not familiar with either of those proxies. I was under the impression that there is no BT client that will work with a proxy ( I may well be wrong ). BT was ot originally designed for anything that might have required you to use a proxy.
None the less, if there is a proxy that works, you'll be loosing your already limited speeds.
Last edited by Broken; 07-06-2006 at 04:42 PM.
oops, see next message
Originally Posted by Broken
Last edited by Bnad; 07-06-2006 at 05:23 PM.
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