9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
2:25 p.m.
On Thu, April 8, 2010 1:46 pm, Ander Punnar wrote:
I don't live in UK and I maybe want to stream BBC
web streams over ssh.
It was illegal before the law (te-hee), but now, according to the law,
"ISPs
that fail to apply technical measures against subscribers can be fined up
to
£250,000".
So, what now? BitFolk will start to monitor traffic and when certain
clients
try to access BBC web streams, then they will get very angry letter saying
that they have been naughty?
I'd be curious as to what Bitfolk could possibly do to detect such usage?
If the remote user (outside the UK) is connecting to the VPS over SSH then
his traffic is unmonitorable... the only monitorable connection would be
between the BBC and the VPS which, given the UK termination point, is of
course entirely legal.
One would hope that any apparent correspondance between incoming/outgoing
throughput rates at any given time would have to be considered as nothing
more than circumstantial evidence.
Mathew