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Angry beyond belief. Any router that can block Bittorrent traffic completely?

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You weren't a judge in Texas until recently, were you?

http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/11/02/texas-judge-beats-daughter-for-illegal-downloading/
 
I don't know if anyone mentioned this but can your router firmware be upgraded to something like DD-WRT or Tomato? If it can, I would suggest doing that as it offers a lot more options.
 
Don't bother with packet inspection or firewall.

Either talk to her, or set up QOS and limit her bandwidth via MAC adress. Setup filtering rules to block all traffic to unknown macs (incase she's savvy enough to change her address)
 
fatwalletuser said:
Maybe you can block the ports that torrents uses?
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torrents are sneaky like that, they can adapt and use alternate ports a lot of the time. . . and sometimes can run over SSL on 443 so your FW can't "see into it". . . you can try rate limiting to 1 or 2 mb/s and just make it a general pain for her to bother; asumiing you haven't spoken to her about it yet.
 
lol. It's been settled. She's agreed not to torrent after I told her I got a letter in my email for copyright infringement and I was beyond pissed.
 
Sucks to live with you 🙂

Joking aside, Talk to her and let her know you don't want it going on. If she keeps doing it, Change your Wireless password. Only way she'll learn, even at 24.... ?
 
amdhunter said:
lol. It's been settled. She's agreed not to torrent after I told her I got a letter in my email for copyright infringement and I was beyond pissed.
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Not trying to be a dink here, I know its how you feel... but that letter is basically just a scare tactic.

There are thousands of people who have those letters. (including me from a few years ago for downloading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) What are they gonna do, lock up 1/2 of America? Guess it's trending that way...
 
adam_the_giant said:
Not trying to be a dink here, I know its how you feel... but that letter is basically just a scare tactic.

There are thousands of people who have those letters. (including me from a few years ago for downloading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) What are they gonna do, lock up 1/2 of America? Guess it's trending that way...
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You understand that the letter was fake right? To get his niece to stop downloading illegal movies/music. Because there was no other way.
 
adam_the_giant said:
Not trying to be a dink here, I know its how you feel... but that letter is basically just a scare tactic.

There are thousands of people who have those letters. (including me from a few years ago for downloading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) What are they gonna do, lock up 1/2 of America? Guess it's trending that way...
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Was it really just for downloading? Or was it for file-sharing (Bittorrent)? The reason I ask, is because I was under the impression that there was jurisprudence, that considered "Uploading" to be equivalent to the prohibited "Distribution" of copyrighted material in copyright law. Whereas, "Downloading" was not considered "Distribution", really.

"File-sharing" implies "Distribution", aka "Uploading". Which, with BitTorrent, if you are downloading, then you are also uploading. Which makes you culpable of distribution.
 
adam_the_giant said:
Not trying to be a dink here, I know its how you feel... but that letter is basically just a scare tactic.

There are thousands of people who have those letters. (including me from a few years ago for downloading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) What are they gonna do, lock up 1/2 of America? Guess it's trending that way...
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I didn't get any letter. I just told her I did. 😉
 
jumpncrash said:
this thread makes me laugh, I have over 90gigs transferred in the past-2-3 days...it's all torrents
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OpenDNS (get a free account, and configure their DNS servers in the DHCP settings on your router)

And don't forget to turn off DNSMasq on your router
 
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