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Yeah whatever, dude. "Intrusive", "privacy damaging"...LOLJRC wrote:Which means that the german server admins ought to have figured out basic downloads without the use intrusive, privacy damaging programs like bit torrent. That's for our 13 year old friend -=TB=-ante9383.
The problem is, many ISPs, especially in the USA and some around the world, do not think that way. Comcast (one of the largest cable ISP's in the USA, and the one thats the most available and cheapest (usually) to use) monitors packets for torrent bandwidth and sends modified packets back to reset and disable the downloads every time they try to start, unless it's from a comcast user, and encryption, peerguardian, etc won't stop it. Rogers (ISP in canada and some northern US states) throttle any encrypted traffic down to 10kbps or less in some areas. Stuff like that happens, and it might not be his fault that he can't get it to work.-=TB=-ante9383 wrote:Yeah whatever, dude. "Intrusive", "privacy damaging"...LOL
Direct downloads are yesterday's technology. Torrent downloads are the future, and are used by legitimate organisations to offer legitimate downloads (e.g. Ubuntu Linux distributions). If you think that the torrent protocol is used primarily by copyright pirates, you've been seriously brainwashed by the music & motion picture industry associations in your home country.
I feel a bit stupid after reading your post, maybe I'm being arrogant here - and in the case of those who are being screwed by their ISPs, I apologise.Bisclaveret wrote:The problem is, many ISPs, especially in the USA and some around the world, do not think that way. Comcast (one of the largest cable ISP's in the USA, and the one thats the most available and cheapest (usually) to use) monitors packets for torrent bandwidth and sends modified packets back to reset and disable the downloads every time they try to start, unless it's from a comcast user, and encryption, peerguardian, etc won't stop it. Rogers (ISP in canada and some northern US states) throttle any encrypted traffic down to 10kbps or less in some areas. Stuff like that happens, and it might not be his fault that he can't get it to work.