u/lukmly013 đź’ľ (lemmy.sdf.org)The internet provider on my dorm specifically allows legal torrents
comador Policing this crap isn’t trivial and not worth the effort.
We just gave up and block 100% of all P2P traffic on both our university wireless and student wired networks.
GodortIn our corporate network, we just detect for common BT applications on the endpoint and alert on that instead.
Why would you care? Is it a legal issue of some sort?
Likely is. When a dorm resident does the torrenting, the university would be receiving those naughty letters.
Oh, those naughty letters! There’s a reason Seaseme Street is never brought to you by the letter J or Q. Such naughty letters.
Sorry, I’ve never lived in a country which bootlicked the copyright owners so much. I’ve read up on it and wow it sounds kinda insane, someone spies on your traffic and sends you legal threats for pirating stuff.
Eh yes and no. Usually a representative of the rightsholder will join the swarm of a torrent, note all the IP addresses, and send their love letters to every ISP on that list. From there, the ISPs will forward the letters and may take action depending on jurisdiction and local law, which usually amounts to soft threats or suspending your account after multiple interactions. It isn’t that the ISPs are spying on your traffic (at least in this instance), they just don’t want to get caught up in “enabling piracy” or whatever nonsense. Hence why VPNs are a thing.
My university just blacklisted the questionable trackers DNS, not the actual data traffic
So basically I would tether to my cell phone, wait for it to fetch a list of peers from the tracker, and then switch back to the uni wifi to complete the download
What do you mean by blocking “100% of all P2P traffic”?
100% of all P2P protocols, literally are blocked by our University F5 BigIP by rule.
All of them.