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

[Anteaus]

I don't understand what the big deal is. If she continues doing it just pull the plug on her. Niece or not if she doesn't respect your wishes she doesn't need to use the internet. Make her use her smart phone to facebook lol.

 

[yinan]

I also dont get what the big deal is. She really isnt doing anything wrong.

 

[Chapbass]

I also dont get what the big deal is. She really isnt doing anything wrong.

Wait what? What shes doing is illegal, last I checked...

 

[yinan]

There is a difference between illegal and wrong.

 

[Anteaus]

There is a difference between illegal and wrong.

Yes, one is based on law and one is based on ethics. In this case she is breaking the law, therefore it is illegal. Just because its a civil violation and not criminal doesn't change anything.

If a police officer were to witness her downloading copyrighted material and she couldn't prove she had permission, he could in fact arrest her. It's pretty straight forward.

 

[kornphlake]

There is a difference between illegal and wrong.

Torrenting copyrighted material is both illegal and wrong. Please send your ethics-meter out for calibration at your earliest convenience.

 

[Ghiedo27]

I also don't get what the big deal is. She really isn't doing anything wrong.

Let's ignore copyright law for a moment. She's still using a family member's network for illegal activities opening the door for them to be put under considerable financial hardships.

It has been argued that the chance of him being prosecuted is slim. And if it's your network then, fine. Take whatever risks you feel comfortable with. But it is completely wrong for her to put that risk off on someone else that's putting a roof over her head.

 

[Ichinisan]

Why do we assume the torrented content is illegal copyright works?

 

[Fallen Kell]

Maybe use OpenDNS. I know they have option to block p2p and proxies, among about twenty other categories.
I use it on my router to block adult related sites, phishing and others inappropriate categories on my home network. I have six children accessing the internet and opendns has eased my mind somewhat.
Use opendns, password protect your router and I believe it may work.

I know this is an old post, and I did not bother reading after it, but still, if she is "computer savy" as he says she is, using opendns on the router will do nothing. She can just set her computer to use a different DNS server, like "4.2.2.1", "8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4", among others....

 

[Anteaus]

Why do we assume the torrented content is illegal copyright works?

Well just look at the situation. We have a girl in her early 20s who downloads almost 100GB. While she could possibly be a gamer and just trying to download her entire Steam catalog at one time, the more likely scenerio is shes downloading large quantities of ripped media or porn.

You're right maybe theres a chance it's all legit, but it's not likely. Plus she stopped when he mentioned the fake email, so that says something right there.

 

[amdhunter]

Well just look at the situation. We have a girl in her early 20s who downloads almost 100GB. While she could possibly be a gamer and just trying to download her entire Steam catalog at one time, the more likely scenerio is shes downloading large quantities of ripped media or porn.

You're right maybe theres a chance it's all legit, but it's not likely. Plus she stopped when he mentioned the fake email, so that says something right there.

Yep. Copywritten material. I wouldn't have cared if it were 100GB of Linux distros. Once music or every season of House is involved, I'll have none of it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

If a police officer were to witness her downloading copyrighted material and she couldn't prove she had permission, he could in fact arrest her. It's pretty straight forward.

Again, unless Jurisprudence has changed since I last looked at it - "downloading" is not illegal. "uploading"/"sharing" is. Copyright law prohibits "distribution". The precedent has been made that only uploading is considered distribution.

 

[Fardringle]

Again, unless Jurisprudence has changed since I last looked at it - "downloading" is not illegal. "uploading"/"sharing" is. Copyright law prohibits "distribution". The precedent has been made that only uploading is considered distribution.

The way that torrent programs work, once you have downloaded even a small part of a file you are already automatically sharing it. So if you are downloading illegal content, then you are also uploading/sharing illegal content.

 

[shortylickens]

Told her already. Nothing to stop her from still doing it. She's 24, computer saavy and knows enough that if I blocked the wi-fi, she'd just plug in straight to the router. She wouldn't have the guts to disconnect the cable modem since she knows I RDP in to my computer to do work.

I don't want to get into it with her.

Until that problem gets fixed I dont see much hope. You could just halt internets for the time she's visiting you. She can check email and such on her smartphone. You can post here with forum apps, cant you?

 

[kbp]

Was just reading (somewhere) last night about a program you can set up to turn everything but the text "upside down" on any client accessing your internet. It's a spoof program for politely telling a "hacker" to stay off your wireless. Saw it in PC Mag's web site in the networking section. I'll see if I can find it sometime today and post the link here.

 

[ir777]

Hi,

Why not be pro-active and buy a good VPN subscription? and/or make her pay for it?
With a VPN account all your traffic is encrypted and routed through the VPN operators server and your IP address is changed. It's even pretty easy to set up and if your router supports it you can even set it up directly in the router so *all* traffic is always going through the VPN. She can then torrent all she likes and no-one can trace it.

If you get a good one then you won't notice much of a speed difference, although there can sometimes be a slightly increased lag-time (only important if you're gaming). I'm using a danish one mainly because they have guaranteed no logging (most others do actually log, so be carefull.).

It is so nice to not worry about being looked over the shoulder by uncle sam all the time I'm using the net.

 

[NetGuySC]

Ir777

Would you recommend here or pm me the site you're using?

Some say no logging but not sure if I entirely believe when not stated that servers are located out of the EU jurisdiction.

 

[Carson Dyle]

This is an old thread, but I'd be curious to know how the OP found out that the 24 year old niece had used 100GB of bandwidth for torrenting?

The recommendation that he sign her up for an anonymizing VPN service is ludicrous. He's angry that she is illegally downloading and sharing copyrighted material on his internet connection. It doesn't seem likely that he's going to condone the same behavior by seeing to it that she can't be traced.

 

[amdhunter]

This is an old thread, but I'd be curious to know how the OP found out that the 24 year old niece had used 100GB of bandwidth for torrenting?

The recommendation that he sign her up for an anonymizing VPN service is ludicrous. He's angry that she is illegally downloading and sharing copyrighted material on his internet connection. It doesn't seem likely that he's going to condone the same behavior by seeing to it that she can't be traced.

I just happened to glance at what she was doing and I saw utorrent running.

It hasn't been an issue since, she saw that I was pretty freaked out about it and stopped bringing her laptop over. Now she just brings her iPad.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Mac filter. Deny Mac address. done.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

lol wtf April post sry

 

[Emulex]

it was legal pr0n.