OfCom's new plans for Internet piracy in the UK

[Recursion]

If I got a letter i'd stop.

Question is - how do they identify the downloads? I mean its like I heard something a while back about ISPs stopping people who use P2P software - the problem is the software is legal - will they be able to tell the difference between legal and illegal torrents and so on?

They'll have hashes and things to check against the files in question, AFAIK BitTorrent and general P2P traffic is unencrypted without user intervention, you can see what the user is downloading. Right now it's just firms connected to swarms and noting down all the IPs of people downloading/uploading questionable files

[Black_Apalachi]

How far along is this? If it's just plans they wish to propose then I can't see it happening to be fair.

[Rapidshare]

People need to realize that there are ways that things can be bypassed and hidden.

To me, its nothing special, all you just need is a seedbox or a VPS/VPN and your sorted.

Heck, even being on a private tracker is good enough most of the time.

[Recursion]

People need to realize that there are ways that things can be bypassed and hidden.

To me, its nothing special, all you just need is a seedbox or a VPS/VPN and your sorted.

Heck, even being on a private tracker is good enough most of the time.

We know how to hide, it's just the principle, our country is becoming a(n even bigger) nanny state.

[-Sweex]

As soon as I get a letter I would stop. Not risking my internet being cut-off I couldn't live without it!

[Firehorse]

Looks like its time to switch to a smaller ISP... I'm not big on illegal downloads but this kind of thing really makes me paranoid about downloading any file from an unofficial website.

I do use spotify to get my music now and prefer streaming it, but these rules are unbalancing the system quite a bit.

[Niall!]

SSL encrypted Usenet
No chance of catching me.

[Recursion]

SSL encrypted Usenet
No chance of catching me.

USENET is dieing.

[Niall!]

USENET is dieing.

How so?

[Recursion]

How so?

Well ok, not so much "dieing".

It's beginning to be targeted in the same way as Torrent sites.