Afrihost torrent policies

[jcom09]

Hi,

Im moving over to an Afrihost capped account soon and would like to know if downloading torrents is more risky than using an uncapped account?

By more risky I mean will Afrihost be able to see the same traffic if im on a capped account compared to an uncapped account or are they pretty much the same?

Then if they collecting info on my torrent downloads which is the best way to try block them? VPN or Proxy?

Would legal action be taken in South Africa if you have received warning letters from your ISP and you ignored them and carried on downloading torrents?

[DuckKnuckle]

The easiest way around any legal issues would be to buy your games.

Piracy is frowned upon. And yes, they can see your traffic.

[TBlaar]

Downloading games is bad, downloading series so that you do not have to wait until SABC buys rights to it in 5 years' time, is okay

[ArchieChoke]

Hi,

Im moving over to an Afrihost capped account soon and would like to know if downloading torrents is more risky than using an uncapped account?

By more risky I mean will Afrihost be able to see the same traffic if im on a capped account compared to an uncapped account or are they pretty much the same?

Then if they collecting info on my torrent downloads which is the best way to try block them? VPN or Proxy?

Would legal action be taken in South Africa if you have received warning letters from your ISP and you ignored them and carried on downloading torrents?

With steam specials and other providers offering specials, you honestly wanna pirate? LOL!

[Lycanthrope]

Im moving over to an Afrihost capped account soon and would like to know if downloading torrents is more risky than using an uncapped account?

By more risky I mean will Afrihost be able to see the same traffic if im on a capped account compared to an uncapped account or are they pretty much the same?

There would be less shaping on capped than on uncapped, but as for what they "see" it would be exactly the same.

Then if they collecting info on my torrent downloads which is the best way to try block them? VPN or Proxy?

Your ISP doesn't collect information about your torrent downloads or any other type of download. That's done by third-party copyright protection organisations, who in most cases would be seeding a torrent and logging the IP address of all connections to them. (Your ISP only bothers to shape protocols).

Best way to avoid that is either an IP filter (which won't stop them from seeing your IP on a connection attempt) or a secure VPN (which will be the IP they see) or a seedbox of some sort that will download and seed the torrent on your behalf, allowing you to download it from them via HTTP (thus also avoiding shaping).

Would legal action be taken in South Africa if you have received warning letters from your ISP and you ignored them and carried on downloading torrents?

No. While not entirely impossible, it's very unlikely, unless you download a torrent of a South African intellectual property and get caught doing so by the nutjobs at SAFACT.

And even then, they'd still have to manage to successfully prosecute you.

[Tom]

Why does everyone just assume he wants to pirate games?

[Lycanthrope]

Why does everyone just assume he wants to pirate games?

His first post on a video game forum?

Why did you assume that he's male?

[DuckKnuckle]

His first post on a video game forum?

Why did you assume that he's male?

and /thread

[TBlaar]

necro!!!!!!!!!!!

[MetalSoup]

necro!!!!!!!!!!!