Brother in trouble for torrenting...

[quote name='Panzer Tacticer' post='3293939' date='Nov 28 2010, 03:37 PM']Two useful factoids.

You CAN get routers that make identifying what you are downloading impossible (I know I am using one).

Here is a link to get all the expert commentary you can handle.

http://www.dslreports.com/

It's not just DSL though (don't let name mislead you) and it is multi national, and not brand specific. Although logically it is more USA and Canada.

I go THERE when I want to talk serious about internet issues.

It's like how GBATemp is the right place to talk about Nintendo matters.

Here in Canada by the way, it would be an invasion of privacy law suit in response to someone performing an act of covert download monitoring. You'd need to be found guilty of downloading child porn before the courts would spend any effort on a illegal file download vs invasion of privacy challenge. Someone caught spying on my online activities would be in serious danger of losing a LOT of money if all I had done, is downloaded a game or movie or song.[/quote]

May i ask for the names of said routers

Lol, lucas arts.

Monkey Island 2.

Bah!

I hate how torrenting has such a bad rep nowadays. A few years ago it was unheard of, and then it became used correctly, and shortly after it exploded into a pirating centre.

It's a brilliant way to keep server costs down for download-centric websites, and spread information and tools across the internet. Unfortunately, it's also "disc-copying" ('90s anyone?) across long distances.

[quote name='Rowan' post='3293979' date='Nov 28 2010, 10:49 AM'][quote name='Panzer Tacticer' post='3293939' date='Nov 28 2010, 03:37 PM']Two useful factoids.

You CAN get routers that make identifying what you are downloading impossible (I know I am using one).

Here is a link to get all the expert commentary you can handle.

http://www.dslreports.com/

It's not just DSL though (don't let name mislead you) and it is multi national, and not brand specific. Although logically it is more USA and Canada.

I go THERE when I want to talk serious about internet issues.

It's like how GBATemp is the right place to talk about Nintendo matters.

Here in Canada by the way, it would be an invasion of privacy law suit in response to someone performing an act of covert download monitoring. You'd need to be found guilty of downloading child porn before the courts would spend any effort on a illegal file download vs invasion of privacy challenge. Someone caught spying on my online activities would be in serious danger of losing a LOT of money if all I had done, is downloaded a game or movie or song.[/quote]

May i ask for the names of said routers
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I use a LinkSys router combined with Tomato MLPP firmware, after that, the details get too geeky for me. I bought it because my much more capable tech counsel told me too
The use of this option costs me 4 bucks a month for the stable IP. Nothing in life is 100% free of course. The wise merely know where to spend.