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Subject: Re: Penalising downloaders Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:59:35 GMT

After serious thinking Les Invalides wrote :
> As we know, TPTB are considering imposing a regime under which persistent
> sharers of copyright material will ultimately have their Internet accounts
> closed.
>
> I've recently been trying to discover how to stop users on a network using
> P2P. It turns out there *is* no reliable way. I thought it would be a matter
> of blocking ports on the router, but apparently many of these filesharing
> packages use port 80, which you can't block without also cutting off Web
> access.
>
> So in practice, I have no way of stopping it, apart from not allowing anybody
> but myself to use the connection. How, then, should I respond to an (as yet
> hypothetical) warning from my ISP that I must stop it or lose my connection?
> Any ideas?

The only way I can think of at present would be to move to a country
that doesn't give a rats arse what you download

Redman