A kid I know claims their ISP contacted them to tell them that they noticed that they had downloaded (via torrents) the movie Cars and that they were illegally downloading media. His parents found out and uninstalled the torrent software. Is this common with ISP's??? Which ones are well known for this?
2007-01-17 11:21:07 · 2 answers · asked by LanceMiller77 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
ISP's rarely monitor (or care about) the specific titles when you're downloading files. And they almost never suspend anyone for that reason.
However, they do monitor the different types of traffic (such as email, web pages and file downloads) and occasionally try to impose various limits. Their concern is the resources required to support the massive downloads typical of movie and music files. Their current demon is Bittorrent. Because a high level of Bittorrent traffic consumes significant amounts of bandwidth, some ISP's will try to throttle these downloads, restrict access to specific sites and/or cap the amount of your downloads per month.
2007-01-19 11:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by AytchMan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's tremendously creepy, and for some odd reason I find it doubtful that piracy is so rampant that it warrants monitoring everyone.
2016-03-29 02:19:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋