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posted by janrinok on Monday January 08 2018, @08:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the suspected-is-now-guilty dept.

Internet slowdowns at home aren't just annoying anymore. They can be hazardous to your health or dangerous if you're in an area that freezes.

Internet service provider Armstrong Zoom has roughly a million subscribers in the Northeastern part of the U.S. and is keen to punish those it believes are using file-sharing services.

The ISP's response to allegedly naughty customers is bandwidth throttling -- which is when an ISP intentionally slows down your internet service based on what you're doing online. In this case, when said ISP believes you're doing something illegal.

As part of its throttling routine, Armstrong Zoom's warning letter openly threatens its suspected file-sharing customers about its ability to use or control their webcams and connected thermostats.

The East Coast company stated: "Please be advised that this may affect other services which you may have connected to your internet service, such as the ability to control your thermostat remotely or video monitoring services."

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/05/pirates-risk-being-left-in-the-cold/


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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by maxwell demon on Monday January 08 2018, @08:33PM (2 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday January 08 2018, @08:33PM (#619681) Journal

    You mean they make an exception for those who only pirate excellent stuff? :-)

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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Monday January 08 2018, @09:28PM (1 child)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 08 2018, @09:28PM (#619718)

    > You mean they make an exception for those who only pirate excellent stuff? :-)

    Yeah, but they get to decide whose opinion defines excellent, and you have to guess.

    [for example: excellent may be "stuff where rights holders are little guys with no lawyers who are not members of rights holders lawyering clubs etc."]

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday January 09 2018, @12:36PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @12:36PM (#619974) Journal

      Dooood! What's mine say?
      Sweet! What's......

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