Been Capped :/
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It's not too much of a stretch that he could have asked some one to look at his account for him.
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Data Protection Act relates to information stored about you, ie storing details about you, name, adress, etc and storing in a secure fashion not been made availble to other people etc.
Doesn't relate to what you download off the net.
Not convinced. BT's so huge he probably wouldn't even know who to ask.
That depends though doesn't it. Either way what the OP has posted doesn't sound like it's come from BT.
Can someone clarify whether there is a remote likelyhood that BT would/are able to obtain specific content downloaded/uploaded/transmitted by a user? I didn't think this was possible. Bit of a privacy intrusion if you ask me, no matter how large your bandwidth usage is.
I am not referring to the OP's situation here, just a general question.
BTW: OP, AFAIK, in no part of the BT FUP is there mentioned anything regarding speed capping. BT simply start charging per GB after you've exceeded the limit. Something in you/your dad's story doesn't quite click.
I am not referring to the OP's situation here, just a general question.
BTW: OP, AFAIK, in no part of the BT FUP is there mentioned anything regarding speed capping. BT simply start charging per GB after you've exceeded the limit. Something in you/your dad's story doesn't quite click.
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Of course they are able but I don't believe they can legally use it freely.
and how do you know that? do you have any proof?
No but seeing as they own equipment that all this traffic has to move through it would seem logical that they must know what traffic is moving through it. Then again by that logic it could just be things like IPs and the like.
Hmm. I'm not so sure now.
Can they ? In theory yes. Do they ? Rarely unless they are approached over a copyright violation usually. Should they ? Yes. You are using a service they provide, they have a right to monitor how you use it and disconect your service if that usage is causing others unreasonable suffering. That said afaik it's not a tool that frontline staff have access to so i'm betting your dad has had a look at your history etc and worked out the rest, it wouldn't be that hard to piece together 'what' you'd downloaded from looking at your PC.
As for the 50Gb/month deal you could have been doing a few gig each month and 130 this month for all we know, it's perfctly possible if it's a staff account the staff member also gets a mail reguarding any issues with the account.
As for the 50Gb/month deal you could have been doing a few gig each month and 130 this month for all we know, it's perfctly possible if it's a staff account the staff member also gets a mail reguarding any issues with the account.
A couple of years ago someone that I know had a warning from BT about downloads, he was given specific film names that were downloaded and specific times. he was informed that unless this stopped his service would be terminated and he may be prosecuted under copyright laws. I think it was the film companies tracing the downloads then contacting the ISP's.
If your using P2P its pretty easy for them to trace you unless you take precautions.
That doesn't necessarily mean that the ISP is aware of everything he's downloading.
Of course. But if the ISP is asked it looks like they are able to trace where specific downloads go, I don't know enough obout their technology to give the answer how.
In the example you gave, the ISP weren't aware of what the user was downloading, but someone else told them that they had an IP belonging to the ISP which had been sharing a given list of movies.
It's extremely unlikely that they know what you're transferring unless someone else tells them, but they certainly will know how much you're shifting
It's extremely unlikely that they know what you're transferring unless someone else tells them, but they certainly will know how much you're shifting
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This may fall under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (maybe not) or what is in their TOS. Using HTTP to download copyright material is abit silly IMO, it is not hard to obtain the HTTP requests, probably how they itemised what this lad had been downloading. Maybe...
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Firstly no i'm not spoilt i pay for everything except for stuff like electric, water ect.
Secondly i don't use torrents.
Thirdly no one in my house knows what i download. However they knew i download stuff and didn't care.
& finally my dad doesn't have a clue how to find the stuff on my hard drive anyway..
Secondly i don't use torrents.
Thirdly no one in my house knows what i download. However they knew i download stuff and didn't care.
& finally my dad doesn't have a clue how to find the stuff on my hard drive anyway..