Now I want to know how they blacklisted it? Where they guessing based on deep packet inspection and browsing habits?
If they did that to me I would never give up. I would just keep looking for ways to do it. I relish the challenge
(Pretty damn serious) Fast forward to me as an adult and semi recently, I pirated the sims 3 with no VPN and received an email from my isp basically warning me. Didn’t think much of it, but go to connect my pc to the WiFi and it doesn’t work. Take my pc to a friends house and it works just fine. Go home, admit defeat, go to boot up my Xbox. Also won’t connect to the WiFi. They had black listed both of those devices from connecting to the internet. No idea why they blacklisted my Xbox as well other than to say fuck you to me. I tried everything to get around it, swapping MAC addresses, making edits in my pc’s registry, even trying to simple change the name of the devices. You think of it I tried it over the course of a few days. I ended up having to buy a new Xbox and new pc (both of which connected to the WiFi without issue)
I’m sorry but I don’t believe you. The lowest level of device identification on a network is the mac address of the device — you were probably not actually changing it.
Second, your ISP should never directly see your mac address from behind your router, as the router acts as a proxy between your local network and the wider internet (this step is for NAT.)
If you were using the ISP provided router-modem all-in-one, they could potentially push an update to blacklist certain mac addresses on the device, after requesting them from the device, but you should be able to remove those entries yourself, and if you can’t you can always use your own downstream router after putting theirs into bridge mode.
So what could have been the problem?
I’m guessing the Wifi-module, right? Like some identification adress on there?
Or maybe a new Windows install would have been fine?
instead of buying a new xbox or a new PC why didnt you just get new Internet? No Disrespect intended just curious
If you use your ISP’s equipment you deserve everything that happens to you
ISP may cancel or blacklist the user/address from their service. If you’re in an area with limited coverage you may lose internet access entirely and/or permanently.
In most cases your ISP doesn’t care. What actually happens is that industry insiders pay companies to themselves torrent select torrents that they’ve identified as containing their content, and then while connected to other peers as well as the trackers, they are able to simply scrape the IPs that were also connected at the same time. From there they then report you to the ISPs under the DMCA, and the ISPs are forced to respond, first sending emails, and then after repeated violations, ending service. Because of this, your brother basically got unlucky by downloading a torrent that was being watched, and has since gotten lucky by not getting caught.
Exposing my ip but I think its been laid out pretty well
Define layman? Qbit lists 12,000 active torrents. Plex lists 3,000 movies and 23,000 episodes. Goal is to have everything but its all for personal use. Only 3-4 people have access to my library. Strictly close friends and family.
That’s insane. Some people have to much time on their hands
Actually many do have the authority. The MPAA is a bit messy. But the adult industry and the RIAA aren’t to be fucked with. At all. Sports are another one. If a bar splits a license to multiple screens they can eat a big one. Even the TV provider will cut them off. If you play music that you don’t own the copyright for in a private domain and it’s open to the public, ie using the music at a grocery store(an elevator or even putting someone on hold). Then you will get your ass handed to you unless you get a commercial streaming subscription.
Because everything works just fine without it???
30 years of UK torrenting on everything from dial up and T1 to adsl and fibre on about 8 different ISPs
It’s not. It’s mainly the US and germany.
VPN doesn’t protect your info, TLS does.
Also, the moment you log into your netflix or yt account, they don’t care about what IP you’re running through.
not really, in the united states both uploading and downloading are illegal, while at least here in spain (don’t know about the rest of europe), as long as you’re not making money, both uploading and downloading are legal, the whole uploading thing is more of a myth since companies don’t usually report people who only download since it’s not profitable for them at all, instead they focus on the uploaders to try to “nip the problem at the root” since, without anyone uploading, no one can download.
Century Link both times.
Yup, phone, iPad, asus tablet, MacBook, smart tv’s, Nintendo switch, vita, etc. literally everything else connected fine. It was just the pc and Xbox.
I’m pretty curious about it as well. I must have followed 20+ YouTube tutorials and spent hours reading through forums and message boards. Absolutely nothing worked