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Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP

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

Fnord666 writes:

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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 08 2018, @11:07PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday January 08 2018, @11:07PM (#619766)

    When it's warm outside, I will often stand out in the street next to an elementary school. By your logic, odds are that I'm a pedophile right?

    Try that in Sarasota county Florida...

    Given that, I should be approached by local law enforcement and told to "move along," and that John Q. Law "doesn't want to see you around here any more," as I'm clearly looking for vulnerable children to abduct, defile and murder, yes?

    Yep, if the same crew is running that town as was in the 1990s, absolutely, John Q. Law will insist you prove your innocence or clear the hell off away from the vulnerable children. If any member of the Force's children attend the school they'll probably pre-emptively arrest you just to make sure the message gets through the first time.

    Except my home is next door to that elementary school. And so, rather than me "standing next to an elementary school," I'm actually "standing in front of my home."

    You've got some ID to prove that? In Sarasota county you'd better.

    What's more, the vast majority of those who molest/abuse children are people known to the children, not strangers.

    Now you're talking about logical sense, I'm talking about interaction with conservative law enforcement in a town with Judges and lawyers who back them up blindly.

    TL;DR: Your analogy sucks.

    What are you, a cop lover?

    Seriously, though, I know a lot of good cops, people who are in law enforcement to help make the world a better place, people who take the time to understand a situation before crashing in, arresting whoever it takes to calm the situation and letting God sort 'em out later. Then I've also known a few cops who aren't like that...

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