They're just trying not to lose their internet service provider probably. ISP's are even starting to threaten their residential and commercial customers alike because they can't afford the lawsuits so network tech's are starting to turn in individuals about compliance and such.
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In that case they should have been promoting VPN usage ''(^-^)
Yeah, this is just a student-run association running it, providing connection from university's upstream ISP which apparently is easy to upset.
I posted this because I actually find this nice, as it doesn't fully block torrents, but just specific ones, and they also make that clear. They could just block torrents and stay safe.
Func fact: Some dorm rooms apparently actually have 2.5Gbit. I've seen the speed test. Of course, you'll need a compatible network card. Most have "only" a gigabit.
Not a new thing either z this has happened for decades now
Use a VPN, people! The "we're watching you" is not a joke, LOADS of parties are watching your every action, actually
Sounds like a bunch of us should put up seeds with titles like "This (1947) It's A Wonderful Life (Public Domain) is better than (2025) Fantastic Four"
I like your style.
More reason to use a VPN.
They're not trying to actually stop you; they're trying to keep the lawyers at bay.
Or i2p.
And make sure it isn't PIA... I am using it and i wasnt aware it was zionist controlled!
Mossad says hello. So does Palantir and Penlink. They are all drinking buddies. They drink data.
At least theyre making the distinction
VPN, even for legal stuff cause "we can see you" can f off tbh
But if that's the extent of the approach you'd still be giving the same information to your VPN provider.
Most people would be better off just making sure all of their traffic uses TLS. If you also need to obscure your address from your destination's host, then combine the two protections.
VPN's are the new essential subscription service for online content. Back in the olden times, we had to pay for minutes of using internet and long distance phone calls, today we have to pay for privacy and access to content we're "not allowed" to see. And what you're allowed to see or not is a strange, politically motivated list that is always changing.
Back in the olden days people scoffed at China fencing off the web, shutting down access to sites and whatnot. Now politicians in plenty of western countries actively talk about it like a good thing.
On top of that, the big visible VPN companies are all owned by the same one or two companies, and while they boast loudly about keeping you safe, they do fuck all for privacy. You're just paying to give your data away. There's a scarce few good private VPNs, but they also don't tend to advertise much.
Glad they don't see the porn.
debrid services for the win! just let someone else torrent it for you, and download it from them.
AllDebrid costs €3 a month and saves you any legal headaches.
I am saving that...
Why would anyone, anywhere block torrenting? There is nothing illegal about it.
Coming from an IT perspective, I can tell you 100% that torrenting on a network can cause a bottleneck with the amount of bandwidth that it often can take especially if it's not set up properly. Several years ago I remember working in a corporate network and we had our internet slow down to a near crawl because one person decided they wanted to torrent a movie during one of our busiest seasons. Let's just say we're able to track them down and they got fired on the spot.
NGL firing someone for downloading a movie seems like overkill
Knowingly pirating a movie on a company network and it causing a lot of disturbance for everyone else is pretty bad. Also could've been a new hire in probation period or something.
Potentially opening up a issue with the internet service provider and other fines for the company you work for knowingly by doing something idiotic like downloading seems like a bad move.
Do you want real answers or are you just expressing frustration? Because if you're just expressing frustration then the answers will just frustrate you more lol.
...which is why today's sponsor is NordVPN!
(don't actually use NV there are much better options, this was for comedic effect)
The Big Brother energy of that "We Can See You" eye in the middle is pretty high.
I mean, it's an open "heads up" so better that than not informing their students at all
Friendly reminder that the panopticon we live under today was considered horrifying a hundred years ago