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September 30, 2014 4:03:49 PM

My apartment complex has blocked some websites such as the pirate bay. Also I am not able to download any torrents. Is there any way around this?

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September 30, 2014 4:06:34 PM

Buy your own internet connection and use it the way you want, providing what you want to do is legal, which I doubt it is.
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September 30, 2014 4:07:47 PM

Go out and purchase your own internet. There are quite a few ISPs and "shared" internet providers out there that block sites. If you purchase your own, it probably won't be blocked.
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September 30, 2014 4:24:23 PM

If you use their connection, they can block whatever they want.
As above, get and pay for your own connection.
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September 30, 2014 4:53:27 PM

besides purchasing my own internet theres no way around the blocks?
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September 30, 2014 4:58:56 PM

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.
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September 30, 2014 5:03:39 PM

emd023 said:
besides purchasing my own internet theres no way around the blocks?


Sorry, no.
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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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September 30, 2014 5:30:24 PM

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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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.
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September 30, 2014 10:24:20 PM

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.
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September 30, 2014 10:57:47 PM

I suggest you to buy your own Wi-Fi connection. Too much people use the internet connection of your apartment, so that you are not able to download anything.
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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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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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