Because they find out it was too hard to target individual people so they are now working with ISP to stop illegal downloads (ie : ISP throttling peer2peer file sharing)
Because there are lots of people downloading lots of illegal software and data, a few people downloading a bit more than the rest isn't important enough for companies to go after them.
HAHAHAHA i cant believe someone reported that... and thanks Falkoner. It seems like the government is decently slacking in enforcing those ordeals. We have traffic cameras for the highways and people get flag all the time, they ignore it and never get penalized.
Another thought, how can you honestly tell who is pirating and who is not? There is plenty of honest peer-to-peer sharing, I download Linux distros via torrent all the time, it's a smarter way of using your bandwidth, however, as authorities begin to crack down on "piracy", they also cause problems with honest peer-to-peer transactions.
Honestly, the problem is that no ISPs keep track of enough data to see that you're truly pirating, and of course, they have good reason not to, it's expensive and hard to store that much data.
EDIT: Wow, I just used variations of the word "honest" three times...
HAHAHAHA i cant believe someone reported that... and thanks Falkoner. It seems like the government is decently slacking in enforcing those ordeals. We have traffic cameras for the highways and people get flag all the time, they ignore it and never get penalized.
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Another thought, how can you honestly tell who is pirating and who is not? There is plenty of honest peer-to-peer sharing, I download Linux distros via torrent all the time, it's a smarter way of using your bandwidth, however, as authorities begin to crack down on "piracy", they also cause problems with honest peer-to-peer transactions.
Honestly, the problem is that no ISPs keep track of enough data to see that you're truly pirating, and of course, they have good reason not to, it's expensive and hard to store that much data.
EDIT: Wow, I just used variations of the word "honest" three times...
I dont get it... So if there is more PtP it is harder to track, or are you saying that legal PtP is something they are having trouble keeping a hold of?
I tried to google "Linux distros" and i didnt get it, lol what is it Falkoner?
I tried to google "Linux distros" and i didnt get it, lol what is it Falkoner?
Linux distributions, distros for short, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, and any other flavor of Linux you can think of.
I'm saying that it's hard to tell the difference between legal and non-legal downloads, however, since so many illegal downloads are done via peer-to-peer, ISPs assume that whenever upload and download speeds go up at the same time that you are downloading illegally, so they throttle your download, regardless of whether you are actually doing illegal activities.