Hey Raphjd Fortunately this never went ahead, but is back on the cards now with our Prime Minister attempting to force this on us without our consent via signing the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) which among several economic blows it will bring to this beautiful country, will also mandate ISP level filtering, effectively achieving their goal by completely sidestepping the fact that a government is meant to be "by the people, for the people" in fact by signing this agreement he will be enforcing the filtering without even consulting the Australian Legislature. A very crafty move in my opinion. It is bad enough that the government of all western cultures already actively force their ISPs to provide the web history of their customers upon request, and then share them with each other, which can only create a climate of fear just because you are a different sexuality, I am not looking forward to the day when the content police come knocking on my door for being a bisexual, But now they are threatening to take away my access to content as well Anyway, sorry to revive a thread that is long dead, I just think more people should be aware of and be outraged by what the government is doing in this country. And yet i can't help but feel that we are only seeing the beginning of things to come.

Pffft…I wonder which "activities that are harmful to human beings" went on. Did some naughty little internet bully make little girls (the daughters) cry on facialbook or twitter -lol? We have decided to install a monitor on our Illinois 1 node so as to locate the hacker. Few hours after we announced this move to our public, the hacker came to us to apologise. We then completely removed the Wireshark installation. This situation shows that we are actually really not logging anything and that we will always tell our members when we have to log one of our nodes or our entire network, either for maintenance and small internal affairs such as this. ahhhhuh, OK, sooooo… ??? :laugh: Wow, glad I never gave them any of my money. At least they have "ethics". ::)

YES, TPB is going to be blocked.  It'll join about a dozen other sites that are bocked due to copyright issues. It's not the government that's doing it, but the courts.

Which AT&T service are you referring to?  I have AT&T uVerse - and have NO caps or restrictions.

Thanks trurk, that's spot on I think at first view.

humm this is scary.. i was introduced to Tor about a month ago.. and i have been using it sometimes, would anyone know whether it helps to protect my identity? i turn it off because (must be my settings..) it prevents me from downloading, could only upload… thanks Whitney

For me that sounds like scam or blatant lie. As a first thing: no German court can sentence a foreign ISP to divulge any information. 2nd: there is no real High Court in Germany, the highest court in Germany is the federal constitutinal court - and that is not allowet to accept a claim from a p2p company. So the next highest court (for civil and or criminal law is the "BundesGerichtsHof (BGH)" but they cant take a claim with a the value of £ 500 - that value has to be decided by a "normal" court (Amtsgericht). 3rd: there is already a sentence (of a federeal state's upper court, IIRC Berlin) which allows a state lawyer to dismiss a claim that aims to get a Internet users personal data from an ISP by a criminal claim (only way to get a court order to divulge that information legally) only to start a civil claim from that data. There seems to be something terribly smelling about such detours. I can only advise each of our users who gets such letters to search legal advise - please remember - I am not a lawyer and I'm not allowed to give legal advice.

I too received a letter today from Davenport Lyons asking for £505.21. I was well gobsmacked it was for the film XXXXXXXXX some months ago. They wrote to BT my then ISP and got the tracking details fom them. Last night I was so upset, it's a lot of money which I can little afford. Edit:Users request.

I reveived a letter from a UK solicotor demanding £500 fow downloading XXXXXXX IO cannot believe and it has left me quite sick, so much money Edit:Users request.