Comcast, why forsake thee

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Shava
Well i didnt even seed this. I was only leeching cause i was on a private tracker. But it could of been possible that in the few mins that i did leech it.

Even when you're not seeding, you're still uploading with BT as long as the torrent is running.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
I don't understand why at this day and age these ISP like Comcast do not packeteer their connections.

packeteer?

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Shava

Originally posted by: AMDZen
What site did you use? Quit using public sites like IsoHunt/TorrentSpy etc

I did download that from a public tracker. Because i didnt want to kill my ratio worse if i used a private one.

Which one, specifically? And what trackers was that .torrent using?

I'm asking only out of curiousity/educational purposes, and to help you out.

Like if you got it from IsoHunt or TorrentSpy, then they usually use more then one tracker. And they also have DHT enabled by default. Pay attention to which trackers are used and google for which ones are known to be monitored more then others. Also turn DHT off for good through whatever client you use. If your using anything other then uTorrent or Azureus, switch.

And yes, you should use the torrent equivelant of PeerGuardian. Its called SafePeer in Azureus and comes preloaded now instead of as an external plugin. For uTorrent, all you need to do is download the latest IP ranges from in a flat file.

More info on everything I've said here and get the blocklists Here and here and lastly, here

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: Shava
Well i didnt even seed this. I was only leeching cause i was on a private tracker. But it could of been possible that in the few mins that i did seed it.

I didn't understand any of this.....

seed
leech
private tracker

 

[dj2004]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: Shava
Well i didnt even seed this. I was only leeching cause i was on a private tracker. But it could of been possible that in the few mins that i did seed it.

I didn't understand any of this.....

seed
leech
private tracker

Seed=uploading
Leech=Downloading
Private Tracker=Invite only bittorrent site.

 

[wetcat007]

http://www.relakks.com not the most reliable service, but a secure VPN to Sweden will stop any of these letters. lol

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[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Shava
Well i didnt even seed this. I was only leeching cause i was on a private tracker. But it could of been possible that in the few mins that i did seed it.

Except you already said you were using a public tracker

Originally posted by: Shava

Originally posted by: AMDZen
What site did you use? Quit using public sites like IsoHunt/TorrentSpy etc

I did download that from a public tracker. Because i didnt want to kill my ratio worse if i used a private one.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Was this an email or letter you received via snail mail? Either way the date is 12/17/06 which is one helluva turnaround time. They don't respond that fast when you have a friggin problem.

 

[Shava]

Email. And sorry about the mixup about public/private. I was downloading it from isohunt, so there was a ton of trackers.

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Shava
Email. And sorry about the mixup about public/private. I was downloading it from isohunt, so there was a ton of trackers.

Lesson learned

But seriously, switch to Azureus and make sure SafePeer stays up to date. Or just use uTorrent and download that latest flat file from bluetrack, save it as a txt file and put it in your \Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent and then check the log tab when uTorrent loads and make sure it has a line that says something like "128946123492364 IP filters loaded"

 

[cker]

Was this an email or letter you received via snail mail? Either way the date is 12/17/06 which is one helluva turnaround time. They don't respond that fast when you have a friggin problem.

Well, a media company is a lot more likely to actually take 'em to court over a DMCA letter. A customer doesn't really represent that sort of financial risk -- unless they're inviting the ire of the MPAA or some other media conglomerate.

At any rate, though, OP is aware that the game can be purchased for US dollars in any number of physical or online stores. If you decide to get on the p2p nets then you must expect content owners to be watching -- there's a risk you'll get tagged with one of these. So, yeah. They'd like you to kindly stop giving away the product they're trying to sell. To avoid other letters like this, stop redistributing software that you aren't licensed to give away. Or try to improve your odds with the other strategies here.

 

[Shava]

Alright, now im using azureus and am using safepeer, i even threw a proxy on the outgoing and incoming connections, if that will make a difference.

 

[FoBoT]

stop pirating you pirate

 

[Shava]

Well anyways there isnt even a option to disable dht in azureus if i believe so. I looked around, anyone help me out?

 

[AnandTech Moderator]

Originally posted by: Shava
Well anyways there isnt even a option to disable dht in azureus if i believe so. I looked around, anyone help me out?

Take a couple of weeks to look harder.

You committed piracy by downloading S/W that was known to be illegal.

 

[swtethan]

see you in cs:s shavers

 

[dartworth]

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!11!1

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: AnandTech Moderator

Originally posted by: Shava
Well anyways there isnt even a option to disable dht in azureus if i believe so. I looked around, anyone help me out?

Take a couple of weeks to look harder.

You committed piracy by downloading S/W that was known to be illegal.

hahahahha =)

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
I don't understand why at this day and age these ISP like Comcast do not packeteer their connections.

packeteer?

It's a way to limit traffic based on actual content and not just ports. If they turned this on things like bit torrent would work but at speeds like 1bps - so slow that folks would not bother.

The harcore would find another way such as a neighbor's open wifi sharing dsl or another type of connection without limits - but the burden would be off (Comcast's) back.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Is the line from your cable modem plugged directly into your PC or do you use a router with a built in firewall? Are you using firewall software?

Even if he uses NAT, its easy to figure out that it's pointing to his IP/MAC.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Is the line from your cable modem plugged directly into your PC or do you use a router with a built in firewall? Are you using firewall software?

Even if he uses NAT, its easy to figure out that it's pointing to his IP/MAC.

Doesn't matter as they go by the HFC MAC.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Is the line from your cable modem plugged directly into your PC or do you use a router with a built in firewall? Are you using firewall software?

Even if he uses NAT, its easy to figure out that it's pointing to his IP/MAC.

Doesn't matter as they go by the HFC MAC.

I like MAC N CHZ

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
I don't understand why at this day and age these ISP like Comcast do not packeteer their connections.

packeteer?

It's a way to limit traffic based on actual content and not just ports. If they turned this on things like bit torrent would work but at speeds like 1bps - so slow that folks would not bother.

The harcore would find another way such as a neighbor's open wifi sharing dsl or another type of connection without limits - but the burden would be off (Comcast's) back.

More commonly known as traffic shaping. Packeteer is the creator and Packet Shaper is one of the popular products that accomplishes network traffic control.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: AnandTech Moderator

Originally posted by: Shava
Well anyways there isnt even a option to disable dht in azureus if i believe so. I looked around, anyone help me out?

Take a couple of weeks to look harder.

You committed piracy by downloading S/W that was known to be illegal.

Took me a few mins to realize this was a post by the Mod. Oh SNAP!

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: swtethan


I like MAC N CHZ

Get that in the double DMZ. :laugh: