Torrent download blocked?

[Reece]

Truth be known they are just trying to reduce the bandwidth, nothing to do with piracy or ethics!
Torrent use is good for those large files, can start and stop when ever it suits, and if my ISP drops out no problems just auto starts again!

[Arclight]

Ugh, don't remind me. Truly a sad day when the ISPs get free reign to determine what they can provide. Few years down the road, and the only newspage you can access for free is the one hosted by your ISP, have to pay for everything else.

Originally Posted by Reece

Truth be known they are just trying to reduce the bandwidth, nothing to do with piracy or ethics!
Most of my torrent use is for legit downloads, they are good for those large files, can start and stop when ever it suits, and if my ISP drops out no problems just auto starts again!

Throttling is really no better. Like I said, they are the ones that expanded beyond their capacity (and that's exactly what they did, every single ISP), now you're the one suffering for it.

I know it's fairly common practice, but that doesn't make it correct.

[SteamWake]

In its efforts to impose crippling net neutrality regulations on the Internet-an idea with very little support from the American public or Congress-the Obama administration turned to the FCC to simply pretend Congress has given it authority to regulate. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals emphatically smacked down that attempt in Comcast v. FCC

http://www.capwiz.com/americansforpr...016336&type=CO

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Arclight

Ugh, don't remind me. Truly a sad day when the ISPs get free reign to determine what they can provide. Few years down the road, and the only newspage you can access for free is the one hosted by your ISP, have to pay for everything else.


Throttling is really no better. Like I said, they are the ones that expanded beyond their capacity (and that's exactly what they did, every single ISP), now you're the one suffering for it.

I know it's fairly common practice, but that doesn't make it correct.

Yes it sucks, try emailing your ISP and ask for the block to be removed, if they don't search for a new ISP, and ask them outright if they allow P2P connections, I was actually getting a good list of providers assuming they would deny my request when it came back on, was a relief!