How Rampant Is Torrent Downloading In Canada?
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includes Movies, Software, books, etc.
includes Movies, Software, books, etc.
Nov 4th, 2013 9:14 pm
Nov 4th, 2013 9:29 pm
Nov 4th, 2013 9:29 pm
TodayHello wrote: ↑...The Banks are smarter than you - they have floors full of people whose job it is to read Mark77 posts...
Nov 4th, 2013 9:35 pm
Nov 4th, 2013 9:38 pm
The torrenting numbers were said to be absolutely crazy 5 years ago when the Bell / Rogers throttling was really being ramped up with Sandvine equipment.
TodayHello wrote: ↑...The Banks are smarter than you - they have floors full of people whose job it is to read Mark77 posts...
Nov 4th, 2013 10:58 pm
I think a big part of it (at least outside of the US) has been the rise of DNS and VPN aimed at regular consumers.Mark77 wrote: ↑The torrenting numbers were said to be absolutely crazy 5 years ago when the Bell / Rogers throttling was really being ramped up with Sandvine equipment.
However, recently, I've read that Netflix and other legit "paid" and even 'free' services have really taken over on the traffic front. As they are accessible to people other than your run-of-the-mill computer nerds.
Cisco publishes some fairly comprehensive reports of Internet traffic by region, and future demand growth projections. I don't have the URLs handy, but they can give you an insight into how much of a load torrenting is for service providers.
Nov 4th, 2013 11:11 pm
Nov 5th, 2013 12:39 am
Nov 5th, 2013 2:16 am
Netflix actually uses Torrent sites for figuring out what content to get... It's a pretty clever move on their part to find consumer demand.Mark77 wrote: ↑The torrenting numbers were said to be absolutely crazy 5 years ago when the Bell / Rogers throttling was really being ramped up with Sandvine equipment.
However, recently, I've read that Netflix and other legit "paid" and even 'free' services have really taken over on the traffic front. As they are accessible to people other than your run-of-the-mill computer nerds.
Cisco publishes some fairly comprehensive reports of Internet traffic by region, and future demand growth projections. I don't have the URLs handy, but they can give you an insight into how much of a load torrenting is for service providers.
Nov 5th, 2013 2:20 am
Nov 5th, 2013 2:03 pm
Nov 5th, 2013 4:59 pm
Nov 5th, 2013 7:11 pm
Last I checked, C-11 (I believe the only relevant bill regarding this situation that was ever passed into law) has nothing to do with the changing of the "downloading for your own use is AOK" law. It's a bit grey, because some lawyers want harddrives not to be considered recording devices, but whatever.
Nov 5th, 2013 11:21 pm
Nov 6th, 2013 1:25 am
People misunderstand the 'downloading is OK'. It's not.ettore wrote: ↑Last I checked, C-11 (I believe the only relevant bill regarding this situation that was ever passed into law) has nothing to do with the changing of the "downloading for your own use is AOK" law. It's a bit grey, because some lawyers want harddrives not to be considered recording devices, but whatever.
Nov 6th, 2013 2:17 am
That's been around for a long time now and it doesn't just apply to Canada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy.ugly wrote: ↑People misunderstand the 'downloading is OK'. It's not.
In Canada we pay a levy on blank CDs Because of this levy you can make copies of audio recordings for your private use.
This only applies to audio recordings. Not audio-visual. So not movies, or television, or even images.
The levy doesn't apply to hard drives, flash memory, or anything else. You're allowed to make a copy of an audio recording on a blank CD.
Nov 17th, 2013 9:59 pm
Nov 18th, 2013 1:02 am
Depends on the movie. I downloaded Forrest Gump and Cogeco emailed us about 1-2 days later saying that they knew that I downloaded it but so far nothing has happened. I was told to download peerblock by my brother and since then we haven't gotten any emails or calls etc from Cogeco.
Nov 18th, 2013 1:59 pm
Nov 18th, 2013 7:20 pm
Peerblock is kind of a fake positive. It *might* work to block spammer, but if your intention is to block MPAA/RIAA/etc. it is not very efficient as they can spoof their IP.barthh101 wrote: ↑Depends on the movie. I downloaded Forrest Gump and Cogeco emailed us about 1-2 days later saying that they knew that I downloaded it but so far nothing has happened. I was told to download peerblock by my brother and since then we haven't gotten any emails or calls etc from Cogeco.