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[replicashooter]

Why doesn't everybody just leave their wifi unencrypted and log onto each others and download what they want with plausible deniability?

 

[Heysoos]

Seems pretty fair to me.

Why doesn't everybody just leave their wifi unencrypted and log onto each others and download what they want with plausible deniability?

That will only work the first time, after that it's your responsibility to secure your network. If it keeps happening they'll probably just cut your service. Or whatever is they plan to do with repeat offenders.

 

[LuchaShaq]

The Internet will be less and less free as long as people commit piracy. It's a damn shame.

Funniest thing I've ever fucking read.

 

[mt1200]

As a semi-broke college student, there is no way I could possibly pay for 100$ software licences ( yeah, i'm looking at you matlab, labview and proteus) and 150$ engineering books, so I don't have too many options left.

Some software are expensive even in their educational editions.

 

[Zoe]

As a semi-broke college student, there is no way I could possibly pay for 100$ software licences ( yeah, i'm looking at you matlab, labview and proteus) and 150$ engineering books, so I don't have too many options left.

Some software are expensive even in their educational editions.

Are you trying to justify piracy? And software piracy at that? In a thread mainly about piracy of entertainment properties?

 

[Joel Was Right]

Are you trying to justify piracy? And software piracy at that? In a thread mainly about piracy of entertainment properties?

He's stating the reality. No doubt, even if software licences were affordable many would still pirate, but companies do not give many options when they price them so highly for students. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that students are disproportionately more likely to pirate software than other groups. For my final year thesis, I had to use a piece of software but the licence of the university had expired. I had two options, 1) pirate it or 2) do another thesis with only a month to go. Fortunately we were given an extension to the deadline which allowed enough time to get the licence renewed. This type of piracy is distinct to pirating movies, for example. It's a different discussion because the incentive to pirate isn't one of personal entertainment, but often a [academic] necessity so its easier to justify it in the mind. That doesn't make it right however. I'm grateful for the DreamWorks program.

 

[jobber]

so they're going to hire thousands of people to look at every single user of these ISPs?

lol jobs.

 

[Zoe]

He's stating the reality. No doubt, even if software licences were affordable many would still pirate, but companies do not give many options when they price them so highly for students. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that students are disproportionately more likely to pirate software than other groups. For my final year thesis, I had to use a piece of software but the licence of the university had expired. I had two options, 1) pirate it or 2) do another thesis with only a month to go. Fortunately we were given an extension to the deadline which allowed enough time to get the licence renewed. This type of piracy is distinct to pirating movies, for example. It's a different discussion because the incentive to pirate isn't one of personal entertainment, but often a [academic] necessity so its easier to justify it in the mind. That doesn't make it right however. I'm grateful for the DreamWorks program.

Students have the least to complain on this front. Unless his university is in the dumps, they provide computer labs for that exact reason, and there are student discounts even if he doesn't deem them to be sufficient.

 

[LM4sure]

Bittorrent was nice while it lasted. Anyone got any recommendations on a good newsgroup service?

 

[MThanded]

so they're going to hire thousands of people to look at every single user of these ISPs?

lol jobs.

Automation of this is fairly easy. In a peer to peer network you can download the data. Then check it against a local version to ensure its actually being pirated. Then query for all users who are seeding or downloading this file and then use a database to look up the ISPs and automate emails being sent to these uses. It's really straightforward.

 

[Future]

Can't tell if people in this thread are upset about possible privacy infringement, or the fact that they may now get caught pirating

 

[replicashooter]

Can't tell if people in this thread are upset about possible privacy infringement, or the fact that they may now get caught pirating

I'm all about the latter. I need my monies for other stuff, the rich people that make the stuff I leech are rich enough.

 

[yn-neko hates a cat]

Copyright holders do the monitoring, not the ISPs.

They do it by...

Downloading the same file you are on a P2P network.

You are basically caught red handed by the copyright holder, or someone representing them (in this case, a 3rd party agency funded by copyright holder groups is handling it).. who turns you in to your ISP for a serious of numerous "warnings" before they do anything.

Cry more America

Isn't that entrapment?