[General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP

[Majed B.]

Wouldn't the host provider have a clause in the terms of service
preventing people from using their boxes and bandwidth for piracy?

I don't know exactly how many CPU cycles are consumed per connection,
but imagine having 500 concurrent connections all through VPN +
encrypting the traffic itself to mask the content when
leeching/seeding.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Faisal AlAbhoul <kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>
> Dont seek a company, have your own dedicated server or even a VPS  and install PPTP server, all you need is extra IP or maybe you dont even need one at all. The CPU overhead for real-time encryption is quite minor, even this page you are reading now might have reached your browser compressed and decompressed in a fraction of a second, you cant be too serious about CPU usage at this era, you running XT or 286 system or what? :)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 11/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP
> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009, 2:52 AM
>
> Due to the stringent legal status of piracy now, all companies have to
> abide to the law and provide personal data on people downloading
> pirated material.
>
> So VPN companies, that do follow the law and don't have a political
> backup, will close your account, if a complaint was sent against you,
> or if they monitor your activity on their end, they will terminate it
> when detecting p2p traffic.
>
> I'm not saying there aren't companies that allow you to torrent away;
> what I'm saying is that such companies are getting very rare, and
> probably would have their prices sky-rocket.
>
> There was a company called HushMail, that was said to have and offer
> the strongest email encryption services ever. I think they offered
> 4096 bit encryption. Many people used that service, until 1 or 2 years
> ago they were issued a subpoena and were forced to hand over the
> *private* key of a customer and the government decrypted all the
> emails.
>
> In UK, 2 years ago many people were arrested and fined for piracy when
> the government issued a related law. People started encrypting their
> traffic and it became virtual impossible to detect them and indict
> them of piracy. Azureus/Vuze is a bitorrent client that supports
> encryption.
>
> So, you could use a VPN connection to avoid local ISP traffic shaping
> and use client encryption to avoid your account being closed. All of
> that at the cost of losing bandwidth (and CPU cycles) due to
> encryption overhead.
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Faisal AlAbhoul<kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why would they close your own VPN account, Majed?
> >
> > have a go at one of the companies here  http://www.strongvpn.com/
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 10/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail..com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP
> > To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> > Date: Monday, 10 August, 2009, 10:01 PM
> >
> > Won't they close the account if it was in the states? They're being so
> > up-tight about it there...
> >
> > In Europe, things have changed a lot since Pirate Bay lost the case
> > AND the appeal...
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Faisal AlAbhoul<kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
> >> Just get a $5 VPN account to the states or europe and override the whole
> >> local net constraints.
> >>
> >> --- On Mon, 10/8/09, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com>
> >> Subject: [General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP
> >> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> >> Date: Monday, 10 August, 2009, 3:52 PM
> >>
> >> Salam,
> >>
> >> A friend of mine is looking for a good and torrent-friendly ISP. Your
> >> recommendations are appreciated.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
> >>
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