Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink

Re:Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink by retrac on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:57PM (#27042158)

Yes, ISPs tend to forward these. I think it's legally required in the USA? Though even here in Canada, you'll get any copyright-related complaints they receive regarding your account forwarded to you (including the endless automated DMCA notices which are legally meaningless here).

The ISP even wraps it in a disclaimer with the usual "behave or we'll cancel your service!" Though in practice, they never do. No idea with Starlink though. I wouldn't volunteer to test it. They definitely would want to drop bandwidth hogs for any excuse.

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Re:Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink by daveslash on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:49PM (#27042711)

I've experienced someone on my home network torrenting enough times (and me receiving the take down notices) that my service was suspended and I had to call my ISP and promise that the situation had been rectified. Curiously, they don't actually suspect your service - they suspend DNS resolution (my VOIP phone still worked, and putting IP addresses to external websites that I knew directly into my hosts file worked just fine).

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Re:Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink by greshario on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:51PM (#27042736)

Did switching DNS server fix it?

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Re:Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink by daveslash on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:35AM (#27051254)

Good question, but I didn't try (I should have). After some simple debugging to understand the nature of the problem (is it a problem with my home equipment or external problem?), I just straight up called the ISP.

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Re:Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:51PM (#27043331)

DNS over HTTPS with DNS provider supporting it should've worked then.

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Re:Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink by yellowapple on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:41PM (#27052214)

> The ISP even wraps it in a disclaimer with the usual "behave or we'll cancel your service!" Though in practice, they never do.

I know firsthand Suddenlink is one ISP that will indeed shut off your Internet (and phone, since it's through the same modem) in response to copyright-related complaints. The worst part is I didn't get any sort of warning first; I ended up calling in thinking it was a standard network outage, with the phone tech and I troubleshooting for an hour before he realized "ohhhhh, did you try to torrent a video game yesterday?".

So thankfully it seems StarLink gives better warning here.

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