Airwolf7Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
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1 edit | Don't mess with my connection. The first time this impacts my connection by slowing it down, increasing my latency, or keeps me from downloading legal content I'm gone. |
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 Mega DETHIt's All About The Ping
join:2003-08-20
Watertown, WI | You got that right, I will be gone too
said by Airwolf7:The first time this impacts my connection by slowing it down, increasing my latency, or keeps me from downloading legal content I'm gone.
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said by Airwolf7:The first time this impacts my connection by slowing it down, increasing my latency, or keeps me from downloading legal content I'm gone. This isn't smart business policy. If you Google something, say a movie, and when you click the results, you get redirected to AT&T's ad page for unresolved URLs? Google indexes everything possible. Some things might be questionable but not illegal but blocked anyway.
How about a website selling MP3s from Indie artists being blocked? Or, blocking Yahoo msr transfers? Blocking VOIP apps? Blocking used DVDs or CDs on Amazon or Ebay?
This sounds like a clear "interfering with interstate commerce" situation. Is AT&T just looking for an excuse by Congress to enact "network neutrality" legislation?
Also, how does this affect their safe harbor status? If they have these filters and some bozo has illegal content on a homepage on AT&T, no DMCA takedown necessary just sue AT&T. The just took on the "policing role" so content on their network illegally is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
It also sounds like Sprint's deal where they change the contract terms and now all contracts are cancelled.
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 ronpinImagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | Will it block NSA piracy of my privacy??? ....well  |
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 MagManLife is simpler when you tell the truth.Premium
join:2003-10-01
Westlake, OH
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Re: Don't mess with my connection. said by Mega DETH:You got that right, I will be gone too said by Airwolf7:The first time this impacts my connection by slowing it down, increasing my latency, or keeps me from downloading legal content I'm gone. X3 color me gone.
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 swhx7Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia | reply to supergirl
I don't think they're going to try the things you mention - interfering with searches, purchases etc.. From what I've read in the articles about this, it seems they're going to inspect packets for the actual files.
To the grandparent poster's question, I wonder how it will affect connections. If they split the stream and inspect a copy while letting the original packets go thru, it would not slow things at all. If they are intecepting and literally filtering, it would be make the whole internet service sluggish. |
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 ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Mechanicsville, VA | reply to MagMan
Question is, who do you go to?? I have AT&T and Comcast as my choices. One already filters P2P, and hinders other apps, and one is getting ready to. I am really not for government intervention in most things, but they are the ones that let them get this big so they need to control them too.
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 NOCManMacChatterPremium
join:2004-09-30
Colorado Springs, CO | reply to Airwolf7
Where are you going to go? This will apply to all traffic that crosses AT&T's network not just for their customers.
Just goes to show that telco's have too much control over networks with not enough oversight. |
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Considering they are a major part of the internet backbone, you aren't "going" anywhere. At some point or another, you are going to cross this network, and if they filter at their Peering routers, it won't matter who you "go" to...it can be stopped.. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to ropeguru
I'd be staying on DSL-Extreme - no filters outside of port 25 (email) which can be removed.
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Virus scanning servers that do this for companies add around 20ms of extra latency. So people web surfing probably wont notice a thing. Gamers wont be happy though. The problem is these fall apart when the files being scanned get into the GB range. Maybe they will have some smart way of doing it with a smaller set of information. |
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said by Airwolf7:The first time this impacts my connection by slowing it down, increasing my latency, or keeps me from downloading legal content I'm gone. Gone where? You think the other big providers won't do this if it works for AT&T?
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
kudos:1
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2 edits | reply to Airwolf7
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The first time this impacts my connection by slowing it down, increasing my latency, or keeps me from downloading legal content I'm gone.
Yup. The service I'm looking for in an internet connection is a pure data pipe. If they start selectively filtering stuff, I not only will never use them, but I will even make sure I steer my corporate clients onto alternative ISPs.
I can deal with throttling/shaping for bandwidth management reasons, but not outright filtering. |
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Airwolf7Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
kudos:1 Reviews:
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Actually I won't be going anywhere because...
1. I do not steal sh*t.
2. It will not work for more than ten minutes before there is a workaround.
If it does screw up my connection I will just buy a couple of DS3 connections. I have been crunching numbers about starting up a WISP anyway to sell Internet access to two of our Industrial Parks and lots of my customers that live in the sticks and have no hope of anything but satellite. |
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Airwolf7Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
kudos:1 | reply to djrobx
What djrobx said.
I will be taking my people with me too. If I get up the nerve to stick my neck on the chopping block I might even be taking them to my WISP. |
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ackman
join:2000-10-04
Acworth, GA | reply to ronpin
Re: Will it block NSA piracy of my privacy??? All the good muddy-boot Republicans will magically discover the illegal AT&T spying once Hillary is elected. In a heartbeat, protecting the US Constitution will become Republican job #1. |
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 Homer JMmmm, Free Goo
join:2000-10-05
Springfield | Let's hope the day never comes that Hilary is elected to anything. |
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Re: Don't mess with my connection. If it touches my business connections at all, I'll pull all our services from AT&T, the DSL, T1 and phone service. I'm tired of their shit and unreliably. For that $3000/m, we could do better.
I'm a little pissed off cause I've been waiting for them to give me the binding post number for the new fax line that was supposedly installed mid December. |
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 Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
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kudos:2
1 edit | reply to Airwolf7
you can sue them you know
by sue them under
FCC fair access policy
if any thing were to be blocked |
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Good luck on buying those T3s. Hope you have a few million in the bank to pay for them in the long run while you're getting started. |
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