Talk:UTorrent

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This article is complete shit. Will rewrite and do some original research. Oh, on the note of big media tracking ips and whatnot, they do. I'm a small cog in a large IT machine at ANU and I'm constantly blocking people's tubes because some fuckhead from the legal wing of a media organisation complains to our legal department that a student has been downloading naughty things (luckily copyright abuse is only punishable by civil law in Australia amirite?), and then that gets sent to my superior who tells me to block the student's port in my college. I've even had a request to block my port, which was hard to explain. Students mostly get done for limewire and bittorrent because it's quite easy for an organisation to plant a few seeds and then track the ip addresses back to the source. For some reason home users under regular isps don't get infringement notices (probably something to do with privacy laws), but since ANU provides its own internets the easiest thing to do when the jews complain is to just block the port. The shit thing is I have to then go to some dumbass asian exchange students room and explain why they cant download girugamesh, bleach, tentacle porn or whatever the fuck those perverts look at. Vonranke 11:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

• Please do. I'm sure torrent and some related pages could use a little attention if you're up for it.

Also yeah, it's true. Students will always be the pressure point for the MPAA and RIAA. The legality of a school blocking or revoking tubes is fucking grey area at best though, they're happy to exploit that. That shit only happens at schools because you're using their network as opposed to being a customer of a private ISP like you said. Anti-piracy organizations acting on behalf of the firms, coporations, studios, MPAA, RIAA, etc, love to target uni hubs in particular now though (hubs = exclusive on-campus filesharing networks at Colleges and Universities) because they're unhindered by off-campus bottlenecks or bandwidth caps. They're ideal for semi-private filesharing (and if you're paranoid about public torrenting) if you're at a big school because you almost never even need to torrent if you're on one. They're tactic is to scrape the hubs now based on predefined tags and then spam out form letters to the schools with the ip(s) they *claim* are the infringer's. Thus far school's have had no problem bending over for them or forwarding complaints (school's outside of the United States happily do this too). They're usually accompanied with a pleasant reminder about the school's resnet policies, most school's have a clause in the policy stating something to the effect that if you're involved in breaking "copyrights" by "filesharing" yada yada yada...that it could mean losing your internets, or disciplinary action. Although no one I've ever known who has gotten these form letters have ever lost their internets or gotten booted from res. The act of blocking a student's internets on a claim or suspicion is faggotry in and of itself.

The only time I've heard anyone getting in trouble with the IT department at their school was because of MAC spoofing (bandwidth theft), which school's obviously consider more of a problem (and should). The letters for these are much more lol than the copyright letters though with the style and terminology they use because they will just ask you something like why you have so many computers in your room or something simliarly benign, no accusation. As for copyright infringement, I've never personally seen anyone get in trouble because someone *claimed* they were infringing (which is really all they're doing) based on hub traffic. Anyone can scrape an ip and forge a header (from a supposed firm) and send them to the IT department of your school. Letters from some anti-piracy group and/or law firm doesn't worry me. What worries me has always been that my school would forward ANY letter from anyone, whether they look official or not based merely on a claim and an ip. Any school in any country could easily disregard the desperate attempts at legal intimidation with no consequence to begin with. </essay> -- DCY 16:36, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

WALL OF TEXT

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-- - wut? 17:29, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

• you should see my thesis DCY 17:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

• What's your thesis on DCY? -- - wut? 18:00, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
  • talk page is more entertaining than the actual page dammit. ♦ Raspberry Rush [talk page] ♦

• I didn'y even read the articile yet. I just got on ED, saw this and got knocked out when I walked into a wall of text. -- - wut? 18:00, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

• OH SHIT I'M USING UTORRENT HOW DO I SHOT HARDDRIVE?!?--OH MY GOD ITS A ROCK! 01:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)