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[Halcomb]

I gather that more that one or more of you use P2P software.

now, god help me, the house I am staying at uses AOL.


now AOL recently sent me a warning that they will cancel the house's service should P2P software be used again.

now mind you, this house has used "AOL" since it existed and has only signed (ONE) 1 user agreement. Never (when it first existed, did P2P software exist.) have they signed an agreement not to use said file-sharing software.

so having said this, do i have reason to get a lawyer and fight this?

mind you: never have we had to "resign" a license agreement, and never has AOL "personally" sent us a "never use P2P" message.

Edited by Halcomb the Horrible, 04 February 2007 - 04:00 AM.

[DarkShadow]

Do yourself a favor and get a new ISP.

AOL blows dick regardless of ToS, meh, You should just tell them to fuckoff tbh, I got a warning from my ISP, wasnt p2p based, but they thought it was because I downloaded over 400gb in one month or some shit, but it was p2p and it was just a general warning because bandwidth used.

[Halcomb]

Do yourself a favor and get a new ISP.

AOL blows dick regardless of ToS, meh, You should just tell them to f*ckoff tbh, I got a warning from my ISP, wasnt p2p based, but they thought it was because I downloaded over 400gb in one month or some sh*t, but it was p2p and it was just a general warning because bandwidth used.

fair enough, but i honestly don't live here.

my only complaint is that this did not exist on my previous ISP (at my previous residence) and more so, hasn't been so here until AOL "added a feature," ie downloaded something unbeknownst to us, without permission which apparently tracks file sharing between servers.

not only does this invade the privacy set by AOL's first end user agreement, but it violate's it's non-profit tracking amendment in it's first revision.

for them to prove i've missused information, they must first prove that they have not used it's tracking software for profit.

[DarkShadow]

ISP's cannot legally monitor anything you do on the internet but...

the companies that work under the RIAA / etc have bots which crawl p2p networks scanning IP's and tracking what they do / download because sometimes they also host files on the bots, which is the main way for detection, then submit you to your ISP and threaten.

usually if your ISP is somewhat good they give you like 3-4 chances before they submit you or anything.

[Halcomb]

hmmm... didn't know that.

i also sent a PM.

[Halcomb]

hmmm... i suppose that adheres to both.

thanks for the notice.

[kidcapri]

Aol probably mentions all of this in the agreement on the newest software. So if you installed the latest version of aol, you probably agreed to all of that sh*t.

[Chris82]

Also get this whenever you use P2P or torrents and make sure you ONLY check it to block spyware/adware and the government.

Then click Enable and Block HTTP when torrenting/downloading.