Telstra's new attack on pirates

[[DtK] [Jedi] Tonic]

This is Telstra's new way of taking down pirates. Copy pasta from here

Heads-up all you naughty pirates: Telstra is coming for you. It’s coming to slow down your P2P traffic and analyse your traffic to stop rampant online piracy.

Piracy has always been difficult for ISPs; you only need to look at the iiTrial to understand that. To combat pirated material traversing Telstra’s pipes, the telco has announced plans to throttle peer-to-peer (P2P) network traffic while also inspecting network traffic for pirated material.

It’s only a trial at this stage for a group of customers in Victoria (of which they can opt out), but Telstra is investigating the viability of the two anti-piracy methods to see if it would work across the whole network.

The telco said on its Exchange blog this morning that the packet inspection technology wouldn’t be able to tell what was actually being downloaded, it would only be able to track the “signature” of the traffic to finger it as infringing material.

The technology being used looks at characteristics of the data packet to identify the type of the traffic present. Any inspection that takes place is used only to identify the signature of the traffic; it does not identify the content (eg whether this is a movie, the title or any other details).

This trial does not involve any monitoring or tracking of the sites visited by our customers, and the trial’s findings, including customer feedback, will be collected in accordance with our Privacy Statement.
Telstra will also shape identified peer-to-peer content to slow down pirates:

One of the variety of options being examined under this trial is the shaping of specific services (including some peer to peer (P2P) services) in certain circumstances, to determine what impact this has on total overall customer experience of time critical experiences for real time entertainment.
Victorian customers involved in the trial are being contacted about their involvement.

[[DtK] [V] Xplicid]

Well, that is outrageously homoerotic.

[[DtK] [LM] Bruce]

Everyone best make sure they have all their downloads finished before this comes in then... :|

[[DtK] [Jedi] Tonic]

Time to download . . . . . THE INTERNET!

So i'll need 3 or 4 hard drives, anyone up for donations?

Either that or we all get satellites and make our own WAN

[[DtK] [V] SyKeD]

Everyone best make sure they have all their downloads finished before this comes in then... :|

So true

[[DtK] [Jedi] Frendy]

Thats screwed, what happens if your torrenting a program but using a key that you own????

happened to me recently, had to fix a friends PC and had to torrent win7 32bit to do so, used her key, no dramas??

Dah foook

[Goose]

So can someone dumb it down for us non-IT people. Sounds like they can't do anything about piracy but just throttle high bandwidth users. Will that do much anyway, to stop piracy?

[[DtK] [Jedi] Tonic]

This will kill all legal torrents as well, which is the ONLY thing that could possibly stop this (that i can think of, aside from this not actually effectively filtering p2p networks)

So what everyone must do, torrent as much legal stuff as possible, download as much legal stuff as possible, then complain when you are being throttled for legitimate downloads!

[shadowsl4yer12]

This is bullshit

[[DtK] [M] Rawr.]

Already started a thread about this 10 hours ago, Keep up slowbro.

http://www.dying2kill.com.au/threads...-Pooper-Peeved

[[DtK] [Jedi] Tonic]

Lol, why would i look at a thread called pooper-peeved....

[[DtK] [V] Cody2G]

Time to download . . . . . THE INTERNET!

So i'll need 3 or 4 hard drives, anyone up for donations?

Either that or we all get satellites and make our own WAN

Send me ya adress, got two 2TB hardrives

[[DtK] [SA] imthenewguy]

I work for Telstra, have my shit with Telstra. Will this effect the Telstra resellers as well?
They generally keep sections of the pipe free for each reseller...

[Mitch]

This is the saddest news I've ever heard Don't tell me we will have to actually buy tv series/movies/e-books/music?

[SrryCAPS]

mitch im pretty sure it means even buying those things it will take forever to download

[shadowsl4yer12]

I download games but buy them if i like them, i downloaded dishonered wasnt the best it could be for $60 so i didnt buy, i tried AC3 loved it bought it,

♥♥♥♥en telstra hate them.

[[DtK] [M] Rawr.]

you all realise it's only for a selected few on the line, That it's on during peak times and that it's only a ♥♥♥♥ing Trial. Fagz

[Mitch]

you all realise it's only for a selected few on the line, That it's on during peak times and that it's only a ♥♥♥♥ing Trial. Fagz

Do you know what a trial is? It means they are testing it on other people... If it is successful they would implement to everyone

[[DtK] [LM] Rowdy]

I already encrypt my data, Time to bust out peerblock

[[DtK] [Jedi] Davey_Boy]

It is quite ridiculous considering P2P is still yet to be fully utilised and is likely to be a common solution for many company's bandwidth costs in future.

Stuff like this is not the correct way to go about preventing piracy.