Is Google Fiber cool with bittorrent, ED2K, or other filesharing protocols? (ani.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm considering getting Google Fiber for internet service, because it's about to become available in my area.

Are the Google Fiber admins cool with filesharing protocols?

Or do they strangle traffic, ban people for filesharing, etc?

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[-] gravitywell 92 points 4 months ago

DMCA applies to all ISPs in the US, Google will forward notices just like any other isp. In theory they could ban you per terms of service, in practice they probably won't bother.

A VPN is $5 a month, and you'll never have to worry about even getting the notices, but I'm sure you already knew that.

[-] akilou 29 points 4 months ago

To add to this, you might as well set up a VPN at the router level for your entire house because Google's whole business model is surveillance and advertisements, so they're 100% going to collect all of the data coming and going.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Would you rather have the VPN spy on you?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As I said in another comment. At one point in time I'm fairly certain that they were round filing any dmca notices but that could have changed. I know for a fact that spectrum forwards them (because I've gotten a few over the past few years). I now pay for a seedbox and I use resilio sync to make moving them to my nas mostly hands off.