ISPs in the USA to start monitoring customers’ downloads starting July 1, 2012

[Pabst16oz]

U think they gone be snitchin?

 

[yoyoyo1]

what are they gonna do, crack down on 100 million people?

 

[Pabst16oz]

Private industry scare tactic...


The Feds though,

UTAH DATA CENTER

When construction is completed in 2013, the heavily fortified $2 billion facility in Bluffdale will encompass 1 million square feet.

1 Visitor control center
A $9.7 million facility for ensuring that only cleared personnel gain access.

2 Administration
Designated space for technical support and administrative personnel.

3 Data halls
Four 25,000-square-foot facilities house rows and rows of servers.

4 Backup generators and fuel tanks
Can power the center for at least three days.

5 Water storage and pumping
Able to pump 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day.

6 Chiller plant
About 60,000 tons of cooling equipment to keep servers from overheating.

7 Power substation
An electrical substation to meet the center’s estimated 65-megawatt demand.

8 Security
Video surveillance, intrusion detection, and other protection will cost more than $10 million.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan

The Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10^24 bytes) of data. It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the world’s 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. By 2015, market research firm IDC estimates, there will be 2.7 billion users. Thus, the NSA’s need for a 1-million-square-foot data storehouse. Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.
The data stored in Bluffdale will naturally go far beyond the world’s billions of public web pages. The NSA is more interested in the so-called invisible web, also known as the deep web or deepnet—data beyond the reach of the public. This includes password-protected data, US and foreign government communications, and noncommercial file-sharing between trusted peers. “The deep web contains government reports, databases, and other sources of information of high value to DOD and the intelligence community,” according to a 2010 Defense Science Board report. “Alternative tools are needed to find and index data in the deep web … Stealing the classified secrets of a potential adversary is where the [intelligence] community is most comfortable.” With its new Utah Data Center, the NSA will at last have the technical capability to store, and rummage through, all those stolen secrets. The question, of course, is how the agency defines who is, and who is not, “a potential adversary.”

NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercenter in Utah

 

[SirSmokeCrackAlot]

U think they gone be snitchin?

That really is the important question. I think the ISPs will come to the conclusion that its just too much work. Not to mention they dont want to lose customers.

 

[Ice Cold]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
damn i best eat while i can

 

[kash10003]

they still can't touch newsgroups right?

 

[SirSmokeCrackAlot]

they still can't touch newsgroups right?

Im pretty sure your ISP could monitor everything you D/L. This isnt like with torrents where a third party gets your IP from the tracker.

 

[The War Report]

Private industry scare tactic...


The Feds though,

UTAH DATA CENTER

When construction is completed in 2013, the heavily fortified $2 billion facility in Bluffdale will encompass 1 million square feet.

1 Visitor control center
A $9.7 million facility for ensuring that only cleared personnel gain access.

2 Administration
Designated space for technical support and administrative personnel.

3 Data halls
Four 25,000-square-foot facilities house rows and rows of servers.

4 Backup generators and fuel tanks
Can power the center for at least three days.

5 Water storage and pumping
Able to pump 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day.

6 Chiller plant
About 60,000 tons of cooling equipment to keep servers from overheating.

7 Power substation
An electrical substation to meet the center’s estimated 65-megawatt demand.

8 Security
Video surveillance, intrusion detection, and other protection will cost more than $10 million.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan



NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercenter in Utah

 

[mvp_status]

Only thing I'm paying for is another external harddrive. Siterips, megapacks, trilogies, series collections, I'm going IN the next 30 days

 

[MightyHealthy]

Yeah...it's gonna be more of a hassle than it's worth trying to monitor every single individual file by every single individual customer. Those companies would have to increase staff exponentially to even cover such a task.

Exactamundo.

(you forgot to sign out of your alias tho )

 

[TrueEpic08]

Yeah...it's gonna be more of a hassle than it's worth trying to monitor every single individual file by every single individual customer. Those companies would have to increase staff exponentially to even cover such a task.

True, but you know people are going to be freaking out and capitulating once the Feds and corporations stage their first "raid" or internet shutdown or whatever of somebody who they "caught" and "warned" but "didn't listen". Just because it's a hassle doesn't mean that it can't do its job of shifting the axis of power to corporations and the Pro-IP/Anti-Net Neutrality types (see the "Internet Holocaust" earlier this year, and the profileration of the TPP after ACTA went public). The point isn't just to regulate, but attempt to change what a normative action relating to the internet is. Laws don't necessarily need to be effective for a society's behaviors and thoughts to be modified.

And trust me, internet's probably going to get more expensive as well. Somebody has to pay the token monitors, and its not coming out of the service provider's coffers...

 

[Mowgli]

Peer to peers with encrypted connections and websites you access via vpn tunnels.

 

[Mowgli]

That really is the important question. I think the ISPs will come to the conclusion that its just too much work. Not to mention they dont want to lose customers.

Not if they can get a cut of all the fines and litigation against their users. Hire a nice snitch staff and eat.

 

[Wayans Brehs]

Not really worried but just in case I'll stop being lazy and beef up my music collection within the next few days

 

[hex]

Private industry scare tactic...


The Feds though,

UTAH DATA CENTER

When construction is completed in 2013, the heavily fortified $2 billion facility in Bluffdale will encompass 1 million square feet.

1 Visitor control center
A $9.7 million facility for ensuring that only cleared personnel gain access.

2 Administration
Designated space for technical support and administrative personnel.

3 Data halls
Four 25,000-square-foot facilities house rows and rows of servers.

4 Backup generators and fuel tanks
Can power the center for at least three days.

5 Water storage and pumping
Able to pump 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day.

6 Chiller plant
About 60,000 tons of cooling equipment to keep servers from overheating.

7 Power substation
An electrical substation to meet the center’s estimated 65-megawatt demand.

8 Security
Video surveillance, intrusion detection, and other protection will cost more than $10 million.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan

Watch that shyt get hacked the first day it's operational.

Fred.