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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/
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @09:19PM
> This is a double warning to anyone looking to do stupid shit like control/monitor your home over the INTERNET or pirate awful television shows and films.
Also a warning to those who have kids or open wifi networks, those who let their friends and family use a closed wifi network, and grandmas who get accused of torrenting the latest blockbuster without ever hearing about torrent or having the client installed. Hey, if they weren't guilty, they wouldn't be accused, amirite? Freeze to death, dirty pirate grandma. (Hint: the hit-rate of copyright trolls accusing correct people is abysmally low.)