Apartment complex blocking certain websites, and other things.
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emd023
September 30, 2014 4:03:49 PM
getochkn
September 30, 2014 4:06:34 PM
ronintexas
September 30, 2014 4:07:47 PM
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emd023
September 30, 2014 4:53:27 PM
getochkn
September 30, 2014 4:58:56 PM
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emd023
September 30, 2014 5:19:59 PM
getochkn said:
emd023 said:
besides purchasing my own internet theres no way around the blocks?No one here is going to help you illegally bypass what your apartment deems unacceptable, and for what is probably the sake of downloading pirating content since your focus is on the the pirate bay and torrents, so, no.
There are copyright-free files on the pirate bay
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emd023 said:
getochkn said:
emd023 said:
besides purchasing my own internet theres no way around the blocks?No one here is going to help you illegally bypass what your apartment deems unacceptable, and for what is probably the sake of downloading pirating content since your focus is on the the pirate bay and torrents, so, no.
There are copyright-free files on the pirate bay
Yes there are.
99-1 against, but yes there are.
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bill001g
September 30, 2014 9:49:38 PM
Lets just say one of your neighbors finds a way to bypass this restriction and uses all the bandwidth with his illegal bit torrents. How would you like it when you could not come to this site to ask for help because he was eating all the bandwidth. Torrent is a abusive program even when used for legal content. Sure you CAN set it to limit its bandwidth usage but do you honestly think anyone does that. Torrent can eat a 1 gig connection if you let it.
It all comes down to fairness. Even when you buy a internet connection yourself you are not actually paying the costs to deliver the maximum bandwidth to your house all the time. You are sharing this cost with many other people. You can of course buy internet connections with a minimum guaranteed speed and on these it is designed for you to use that much 24x7. It tends to be so expensive that buying the content and having it shipped is cheaper than stealing content.
It all comes down to fairness. Even when you buy a internet connection yourself you are not actually paying the costs to deliver the maximum bandwidth to your house all the time. You are sharing this cost with many other people. You can of course buy internet connections with a minimum guaranteed speed and on these it is designed for you to use that much 24x7. It tends to be so expensive that buying the content and having it shipped is cheaper than stealing content.
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emd023
September 30, 2014 10:24:20 PM
Robrertjhonson
September 30, 2014 10:57:47 PM
bill001g
October 1, 2014 5:55:05 AM
emd023 said:
you all are treating me like im freaking captain barbosa. Not sure why I even brought the pirate bay up. I was just using it as an example.But if you had taken the time to read my reply it is not just the content that matters. Torrent is a hugely abusive program. I would suspect the apartment would limit other content if it was being abused. Say someone decides to stream 100 movies at the same time from netflix.
Torrent is intentionally designed to be abusive. It has the ability to get around most the easy bandwidth limiter. The only solution is to completely block it.
It the users of this program would act responsibly and share bandwidth there would not be such a issue....but it goes right along with the mentality of many of the users. If they feel it perfectly fine to download content that is illegal why would they care about not taking all the bandwidth from their neighbors also.
So even if you have no bad intentions there are so many people that do that it gets banned for everyone.
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ronintexas
October 1, 2014 10:18:56 AM
Depending upon the property - they have the right to even ban Netflix or any other website they want to. There is no work around to bypass their restrictions. It isn't about good vs. bad or good vs. evil - not saying you are either....what is being said is that the property management deems those sites to be abusive in the amount of bandwidth required to run....so they block it.
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