Chile Forum

Hello,
I searched this forum and Googled with some spanish keywords and found nothing conclusive.

Is it illegal to use bittorrent to download stuff?

I'm a Linux admin and bittorrent is the fastest way to download relatively big distro. And I was wondering if ISP are monitoring P2P traffic.

And if so, are they throttling?

Is governement prohibit peer-to-peer download somehow?

Can ISP cut client for this?

thanks

By kaw in chile isps can nott shape traffic
p2p is never illegals its some content on p2p networks that is

Chile’s second name PIRATELAND.

Most are private trackers and you need a grasp of spanish to get them, also many forums and stuff with direct downloads... arrr!

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On the other hand, some DVD pirates have ended up in prison in Chile for their pirating, and at least one I know ended up dead there. Just because many get away with something doesn't mean that there are not consequences to some of those who are caught.

The largest ISP movistar / telefonica in the country frequently has signs in front of their offices promoting unlimited P2P downloads to sell their broadband packages.

Downloading opensource software is not illegal anywhere (perhaps China), so why would you worry about it?

The only "throttling" that I have ever encountered, generally was not about content but incompetence of the technicians just breaking the network.

admin wrote:The largest ISP movistar / telefonica in the country frequently has signs in front of their offices promoting unlimited P2P downloads to sell their broadband packages.

Downloading opensource software is not illegal anywhere (perhaps China), so why would you worry about it?

The only "throttling" that I have ever encountered, generally was not about content but incompetence of the technicians just breaking the network.

or just cutting it all together

Last tuesday i organised vtr to change my stuff to my new apartment today,

every day for the last week they turned up at my old apartment and every day i sent them away so over efficient now they are inefficient, now they are coming to the new apartment tonight to make the change , i told the girl friend to stick around today incase they turn up early!

but the annoying this was they cut my modem off that was working fine in the new apartment on Saturday afternoon, so have had no net until tonight!

yea, last week I come to work to find our phone lines hanging from the pole outside. Seems someone ran in to the pole across the street, and they replaced. The power company decided not to reconnect our phone and internet lines when they put everything back on the pole. So, wasted a whole day waiting for telsur to come reconnect.

admin wrote:yea, last week I come to work to find our phone lines hanging from the pole outside. Seems someone ran in to the pole across the street, and they replaced. The power company decided not to reconnect our phone and internet lines when they put everything back on the pole. So, wasted a whole day waiting for telsur to come reconnect.

the latest is VTR have been to the house, they have connected the tv, but because the call center did not put the new address on the internet connection they will not connect that, so now my assistant is on the phone on hold to talk to the technical people to swap the internet

grrr, fun and games!

and now the vtr call center is just dropping calls

zer0nz wrote:and now the vtr call center is just dropping calls

oh i have another technico coming at 6pm to install a new modem and take the old one.............

so,

28th, technico turned away because he arrived days early
29th, technico turned away because he arrived days early
30th, technico turned away because he arrived days early
1st, technico turned away because he arrived days early
2nd, Sunday, couldnt come
3rd, technico 1, installs tv only
3rd, technico 2, coming to install internet only

how many vtr technicos does it take to move your gear to a new apartment?, 7....

why is chile expensive?, because you have to pay 7 people to do the job of 1............

zer0nz wrote:
why is chile expensive?, because you have to pay 7 people to do the job of 1............

Each worker seems to have the following participation:

Worker 1 finishes half the job (véase "Chile a medias").

Worker number 2 finishes half of the remaining work, or half of the half.

Worker number 3 does half of the rest.

Worker number 4 screws up part of what workers one through three have done sort of OK, sending you back to the equivalent of what worker number 2 had done.

And so on.

Work and attempts are like parallel rails that only appear to converge to unity at an enormous distance, but it is merely an illusion. Nothing is ever done correctly and completely here.

Maybe this is part of the "libertarian utopia" paradigm?