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1. Comment - Market sell-off slams tech stocks

   (Aug 8, 2011 - 12:36 PM)

   Yea...because this is all his fault...

2. Comment - Major ISPs strike deal with music, movie industry over copyright

   (Jul 11, 2011 - 12:09 AM)

   "This isn't complicated. I understand how P2P/torrents work"
   
   Apparently not....nobody needs to "monitor" you to see you're sharing a movie illegally. ANYBODY can join a torrent network and see that you're IP is uploading so and so movie...I can start downloading transformers over bittorent and gather every single IP that's on that network at that time. Does that mean I'm "monitoring" you?
   
   "getting paid to be a snitch is NOT it."
   
   Why can't you understand this? They're not "snitching"...Content Owners send the ISP the IP that was uploading the file, the ISP tells you to stop. They don't even provide the content owners your identity with this agreement...
   
   But I suppose you're not the type to let "facts" and "reasoning" get in the way of your paranoia...so, carry on.

3. Comment - Major ISPs strike deal with music, movie industry over copyright

   (Jul 10, 2011 - 4:08 PM)

   "How would they know that in the first place?"
   
   Try to read some post again prndll...if you still don't understand, then you're just a 12 year old conspiracy theorist and you don't care to understand how this works. Good luck in life.

4. Comment - Major ISPs strike deal with music, movie industry over copyright

   (Jul 8, 2011 - 11:58 PM)

   Gene...
   
   The most common method (right now) for content owners to find out that you're downloading something illegally is by monitoring bittorrents. When you download "Transformers" through bittorrent, you're part of a peer-to-peer network, you can see all the IPs that are part of this network, who's uploading data to you and who your'e downloading from. Content owners collect these IPs...every one of those IPs is tied to a person who stole from them (in their eyes), so they send the IP to the ISP, and the ISP informs the account holder who used that IP at that time (since they change).
   
   ISPs are just the middle man here...they're not "spying" on anyone. In the way this new deal is set up, the ISP doesn't even give the content owners your identity.

5. Comment - Major ISPs strike deal with music, movie industry over copyright

   (Jul 8, 2011 - 11:52 PM)

   Psycros....the content providers don't find out what you're doing from your ISP...they find out what your IP is doing through various methods of their own (See your IP uploading a file on bittorent illegaly for example)...they submit your IP to the ISP and ISP informs you. Your ISP isn't telling the providers what you're doing...MORON.