Americans don't have a right to privacy, unfortunately. There are restrictions on how much the government can pry into our lives, but there's nothing to stop them from buying the information they want from companies that can legally obtain it.

"DNS server keeps going off, and they dont belive be when I ring them.
posted by : Richardo, 26 January 2010"

that's because you're downloading a torrent and have exceeded your daily allowance during peak time. Turn the torrent downloading software off and the DNS miraculously starts working again...

anyway, any Geek should know how to set their system up to use a free DNS server as a fall through...

How are the copyright owning companies going to keep track of the 100,000s of people pirating software, music, movies and TV shows?

The way I see it this is no different to TV companies raiding everyone's houses to check that they haven't kept anything they've ever recorded off TV for more than a week. Most people have, most people have broken the law, should most people in the UK be fined? No.

How is this any different to the Postal Service X-Raying all the parcels comming to the country and opening ones which look interesting too them? They are just doing th same thing with data packets comming into there network :)

Use SSH and everything is fine :D

http://epic.org/privacy/dpi/ take a look deep packet inspection is nothing new of consumer data.

Face it, you only need to worry if your , uploading or downloading stuff you shouldnt be!

this only works for un-encrypted packetts of data.

no point moving ISPs virgins BB still the best in the UK cant say much for its customer service.

And who you going to? Only other option is BT and another ISP, BT i promise you, are ALOT worse than virgin! I'm with O2 broadband but because i have to deal with BT for the lne i have gone 2-3 months out of 8 without any connection!

I'm sorry but i think its about time BT was demolished. Everyone who has to deal with them knows there only out for themselves and palm you off with people reading speals off a computer screen and not even atempting to answer your question! 3 different phone numbers i have had because of BT's screw ups. Charging me £4.80 for a bill to be sent by post and then sending the wrong one.The list goes on!

If I get any hint of this, I'll be switching ISPs. The service I receive is not great to start with. DNS server keeps going off, and they dont belive be when I ring them.