how to block torrents!

[snowdog]

no i support the bands/films i like and buy there music i dont steal it....

Stealing ? Who is she stealing from ? I mean, does the victim lose his copy ?
/can of worms


But anyhow, I agree with

still think its selfish.

I used to do the same when I was 14 and I'd be pretty peeved off if my parents wouldn't allow it, or worse, a brother.

I'm not sure of the legalities but can a 14 year old legally have his own connection, if I'd ever get in to a fight over the Internet at home I'd immediately get my own line and broadband in the past if it was possible, luckily my parent's weren't an arse about it though .

 

[Monster ninja]

update just blocked her laptop told mum and dad why there showed them

point the parents to this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18165758&highlight=ministry+sound and tell them she needs to stop the torrenting now or you wont let her use your internet.

now there getting there own line for them and my sister so i get the whole line to myself

so thanks for your help guys i am at the moment also found a way in this cheapo router to block website from everyone on the network so i am blocking things like "pirate bay"

cheers guys

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I'm not sure of the legalities but can a 14 year old legally have his own connection, if I'd ever get in to a fight over the Internet at home I'd immediately get my own line and broadband in the past if it was possible, luckily my parent's weren't an arse about it though .

I'm sorry but why is it selfish? It's not the 14 year old paying the bill, the 14 year old is illegally stealing music/videos e.t.c. If the parents had any sence they would stop her downloading like this. She can do a paper round to pay for her music. You know it's morally wrong.

 

[koolpc]

Infect her PC with viruses. When she complains to parents you can point out that this is what happens when she visits those site!

 

[matthab]

If its a netgear enter in Torrents, Pirate Bay etc into the smart filter.

Wont stop her downloading but will cut her off from the well known websites and is a start.

Also if she needs the internet put a firewall rule in to block all traffic except port 80 and 443. Once again it wont stop her if shes smart enough to change the port.

 

[SMN]

Sounds like a fake letter from ACS:Law FAO:Your sister would shart her up sufficiently enough to never use torrent again.

 

[scotty365]

Go into utorrent settings on the laptop and limit the upload and download speeds to say 5/10Kb/s - she gets her torrents and you get your bandwidth. If you wanted to be nice you can set it to full speed between say 12am - 8am during the week. If you sister doesnt know that much about torrents then it should work.

 

[JonJ678]

No votes for QoS anywhere on here?

You don't get "told off" if you're caught persistently breaking copyright, whoever is responsible for the line gets fined in epic fashion. If she's 14, then it's not her phone line, so either you or your parents are screwed if she's caught.

 

[arknor]

theres a program called netlimiter that lets you limit bandwidth for specific programs have it limit utorrent.exe to 1kb up/down set the program to start on bootup she will never figure out whats happening if you go into its options and stop its icon showing on the taskbar

maybe you could even set it to 0

 

[snowdog]

I'm sorry but why is it selfish?

I do not believe anyone should not have internet. It's just as essential as the mail or electricity or public transport imo.

It's not the 14 year old paying the bill, the 14 year old is illegally stealing music/videos e.t.c.

Oh noes, a bill of a couple of tenners , why not share your connection ? She is not stealing anything. The chance of getting caught is pretty slim tbh. It's a shame that in the UK purely downloading is illegal unlike here, otherwise I'd suggest he'd buy a news server acc or RS acc for her, but as it is now, I'd simply help her with torrents ( private sites, peerguardian)to minimize the risk of getting caught ( which is already slim) and set up utor in a way so it doesn't bother the OP.

If the parents had any sence they would stop her downloading like this. She can do a paper round to pay for her music. You know it's morally wrong.

Hahaha, my parents were actually happy I stopped ''wasting'' my money on games around that age ( and now that I buy games again, they say it's a waste). Morally wrong my arse. Stealing is wrong, copying is not imo.

 

[Monster ninja]

I do not believe anyone should not have internet. It's just as essential as the mail or electricity or public transport imo.

Oh noes, a bill of a couple of tenners , why not share your connection ? She is not stealing anything. The chance of getting caught is pretty slim tbh. It's a shame that in the UK purely downloading is illegal unlike here, otherwise I'd suggest he'd buy a news server acc or RS acc for her, but as it is now, I'd simply help her with torrents ( private sites, peerguardian)to minimize the risk of getting caught ( which is already slim) and set up utor in a way so it doesn't bother the OP.


Hahaha, my parents were actually happy I stopped ''wasting'' my money on games around that age ( and now that I buy games again, they say it's a waste). Morally wrong my arse. Stealing is wrong, copying is not imo.

it is stealing if i copyed lets say you went to college and i copyed your corsework with out asking i would have stolen it copying IS stealing!

 

[cokecan]

Oh noes, a bill of a couple of tenners , why not share your connection ? She is not stealing anything. The chance of getting caught is pretty slim tbh.

I'm sorry but LOL! illegally downloading music or films is stealing regardless of what the chance of getting caught is.

Everyone who is saying that the OP is being selfish needs their head examined! There's nothing selfish about him wanting to stop his sister from illegally downloading files, he's not talking about blocking her entire internet access.

And just because you guys were allowed to do it as a kid, doesn't mean it's a given thing that every 14 year old kid should do.

Obviously it's entirely up to him if he shares his internet access with her (which he is doing), but if that were me I'd be pretty peeved if that person I allowed started to abuse it by illegally downloading.

Sounds like the OP has it sorted anyway with his parents getting a second connection for them and his sister. If/when they get that letter demanding monies....they can sort it out without the OP

 

[Monster ninja]

I'm sorry but LOL! illegally downloading music or films is stealing regardless of what the chance of getting caught is.

Everyone who is saying that the OP is being selfish needs their head examined! There's nothing selfish about him wanting to stop his sister from illegally downloading files, he's not talking about blocking her entire internet access.

And just because you were allowed to do it as a kid, doesn't mean it's a given thing that every 14 year old kid should do.

Obviously it's entirely up to him if he shares his internet access with her (which he is doing), but if that were me I'd be pretty peeved if that person I allowed started to abuse it by illegally downloading.

Sounds like the OP has it sorted anyway with his parents getting a second connection for them and his sister. If/when they get that letter demanding monies....they can sort it out without the OP

thanks budddy thats what i gave been saying along!

 

[snowdog]

it is stealing if i copyed lets say you went to college and i copyed your corsework with out asking i would have stolen it copying IS stealing!

There's no point in asking though because I'd be fine with that and my uni mates know that, if I do some stupid piece of homework everybody is free to take it over so long they make sure they don't get caught.

I'm sorry but LOL! illegally downloading music or films is stealing regardless of what the chance of getting caught is.

Everyone who is saying that the OP is being selfish needs their head examined! There's nothing selfish about him wanting to stop his sister from illegally downloading files, he's not talking about blocking her entire internet access.

And just because you guys were allowed to do it as a kid, doesn't mean it's a given thing that every 14 year old kid should do.

Obviously it's entirely up to him if he shares his internet access with her (which he is doing), but if that were me I'd be pretty peeved if that person I allowed started to abuse it by illegally downloading.

Sounds like the OP has it sorted anyway with his parents getting a second connection for them and his sister. If/when they get that letter demanding monies....they can sort it out without the OP

Well good result then yeah, 2 internet connections... And no, downloading is not stealing. I can't be arsed saying much more than this:
http://i.justrealized.com/media/2008/08/piracy-is-not-theft-handy-guide.jpg

 

[Monster ninja]

There's no point in asking though because I'd be fine with that and my uni mates know that, if I do some stupid piece of homework everybody is free to take it over so long they make sure they don't get caught.



Well good result then yeah, 2 internet connections... And no, downloading is not stealing. I can't be arsed saying much more than this:
http://i.justrealized.com/media/2008/08/piracy-is-not-theft-handy-guide.jpg

so i could steal for uni work and enter it my self and this would not be stealing? i am not your uni mates :L i dont even know you but u would not call this stealing... by law downloading IS stealing so what the law says even if its stupid IS law you break that and your breaking the law

 

[Serpantine]

Assign yourself a static Ip via the router (mac address set) and set all other ip addresses to block port 28690 (or whatever port she's using) or you could throttle her download speed to something like 10kb/ps.

 

[snowdog]

so i could steal for uni work and enter it my self and this would not be stealing? i am not your uni mates :L i dont even know you but u would not call this stealing... by law downloading IS stealing so what the law says even if its stupid IS law you break that and your breaking the law

Bs.
Show me the part where the law defines piracy as theft/stealing.

And luckily for me downloading is not copyright infringement, only the person uploading is illegal in my case.

Breaking the law blah blah, people break the law every day in traffic, big deal.

 

[james.miller]

its against the law here. whether its theft or infringement or however the law defines it is inconsequential. i thought you would have learnt that your views on the subject arent typical of that of people who live in the uk from the last countless number of piracy threads youve posted in, snowdog. Your parents advocating piracy doesnt make a difference either. different country, different rules, different mindsets. or at least they should be.

I'm not surprised you have such a view on piracy and you're entitled to it, however wrong everybody else thinks you are.

 

[Bloomfield]

so i could steal for uni work and enter it my self and this would not be stealing?

No, that would be theft, as you said you stole it...

it is stealing if i copyed lets say you went to college and i copyed your corsework with out asking i would have stolen it copying IS stealing!

This isn't theft, as you're copying, not stealing...

by law downloading IS stealing so what the law says even if its stupid IS law you break that and your breaking the law

By law downloading files isn't stealing.

 

[snowdog]

James, that's not why I'm replying, he thinks infringement=stealing, that is wrong in the UK too. The other was just adding the info about myself. It doesn't matter if it's here or in the UK, piracy is not stealing by current law no matter how much the anti piracy brigade wants to make people think so.

They're also acting as if the law is holy, you can't deny that in the UK similar amounts of people don't agree with it and ignore it because they can get away with it, be it in traffic, on the internet, when drinking, etc. The law is not holy and it is disputable many laws are in for the common good and the majority agrees with all laws. You don't see people getting all high up if someone broke the speed limit on the motorway by 6mph or walked through a red light at 4am in the middle of nowhere, but with piracy, everyone seems to get up his high horse and comparing it to stealing even though it's nowhere near comparable imo.