Re:HearSay: Anonymous and Confidential P2P File Sharing
by montecarl on Monday April 08, 2013 @10:44PM
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As this software is in response to the "The Copyright Alert System" used by the largest ISPs in the USA, I would like to know what the impact of this program has been so far. I haven't seen many reports online of users getting notifications. Does anyone have any insight into how this program is effecting average users? Is it scaring some people away from torrenting?
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Re:HearSay: Anonymous and Confidential P2P File Sharing
by mehrzad on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:42AM
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Remember: the ISPs are only the messengers; the IP holders are the only ones sending messages.
I remember reading on 4chan (possibly fake, but still interesting) where a guy was called up by his ISP who said that someone on his network downloaded some movie (actually probably didn't). The guy asks the ISP employee for his name and "kindly tells him to fuck off" using his words. He also threatened to leave AT&T so the employee was forced to entice him with a better deal.
Long story short, the guy liked the alert system.