![]() What that means is when (say) a movie studio says “we see one of our movies being downloaded to and shared from this IP address” your ISP can then turn right around and say “I know who that is … I’ll tell them to stop it”.Īnd you get the warning message you get. You pay them every month, they know where you live since they deliver the internet connection to your home.Īnd they also know your IP address, since in order to connect to the internet at all they had to give the IP address to you. Of course your ISP also knows who you are. Whether or not you believe it is up to you, but it’s a plausible position.Īnd if you violate the ISPs rules – their TOS (terms of service) or AUP (acceptable use policy) – then the ISP has the right to disconnect you. The justification is typically that file sharing protocols use up a great deal of the ISPs capacity, and thus have to be disallowed in order to provide adequate service to all of its customers. That means that they can disallow file sharing protocols whether or not you’re using them to perform illegal downloads. Here’s an often frustrating catch: your ISP sets the rules about what they do and do not allow on their system. Port 80 is web traffic, 25 is email, and so on.Īs I said, it’s unlikely that they look or care about what the data actually contains (though they could), but they do care about the type of traffic, and the quantity of traffic.Īnd file sharing is on many ISPs radars. Typically, traffic that crosses the internet is identified by the IP address of where it came from, the IP address of where it’s headed, and a “ port number” that indicates what type of traffic it is. Rarely do they look at the contents of the data, but more and more they’re looking at the type of data – they’ll note whether it’s email or a web request or an instant message. Where, if they choose, they can look at the data. ![]() … for the most part even if the ISP can’t see what you’re sharing, the can see that you’re sharing. ![]()
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