Telecom forces 'Static' type IPs

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#502589 5-Aug-2011 22:14

k1w1: Why are corporations treated like gods in New Zealand?

If you hate the country so much, leave!

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#502591 5-Aug-2011 22:17

johnr: ISPs own the network elements your modem is connected to so they have every right how things work.

Add to that there's an operationally significant reason (not connected with the so called '3 strikes law') for more presistent IP addressing and you have an utter non story here.

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#502592 5-Aug-2011 22:18

theEd:
Spamming? Hacking people's game accounts? Those are the only lines of work I can think of that would be likely to cause such a thing.

Nope. Freelancing in a International competitive market. Yes, It does happen. If people from Russia, China, India think you are coming on to their client base they will resort to such tactics.

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#502593 5-Aug-2011 22:20

k1w1: Freelancing in a International competitive market.

Freelancing what?

How are your competitors getting access to your IP address?

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#502594 5-Aug-2011 22:20

theEd:
k1w1: Why are corporations treated like gods in New Zealand?

If you hate the country so much, leave!

Get off topic but yes. I am trying to save to move to China where the speeds allow you to surf via private VPNs so censorship is void. Plus capitalism (Not implying China is capitalist) is a utter fail.

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#502595 5-Aug-2011 22:21

k1w1:
theEd:
Spamming? Hacking people's game accounts? Those are the only lines of work I can think of that would be likely to cause such a thing.

Nope. Freelancing in a International competitive market. Yes, It does happen. If people from Russia, China, India think you are coming on to their client base they will resort to such tactics.

then hide behind some anonymizing vpn when you deal with those types, and do your gaming and regular stuff on the static ip without fear

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#502596 5-Aug-2011 22:22

Moved to correct forum. Fixed spelling.

OP breaches 'soapbox' clause in FUG but I want to see other users' comments.

Competitive in those countries? Sounds like spam or SEO snake oil...

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#502597 5-Aug-2011 22:22

theEd:

Freelancing what?

How are your competitors getting access to your IP address?

POS systems, web development lots of things. They get your IP by simpley messaging you "Hi I am interested in your services can you give me some feedback on my current site *link*"

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#502599 5-Aug-2011 22:24

you're against capitalism, but you freelance in an international competitive market and you're worried about people stealing your business?

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#502601 5-Aug-2011 22:26

Regs: you're against capitalism, but you freelance in an international competitive market and you're worried about people stealing your business?

A man has to eat. You have to play the game if you are in the system. Lets be realistic here.

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#502602 5-Aug-2011 22:26

k1w1:
theEd:
k1w1: Why are corporations treated like gods in New Zealand?

If you hate the country so much, leave!

Get off topic but yes. I am trying to save to move to China where the speeds allow you to surf via private VPNs so censorship is void. Plus capitalism (Not implying China is capitalist) is a utter fail.

China is capitalist, very much so. It is also run by the communist National Party, but communist in name only.

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#502603 5-Aug-2011 22:27

look on the bright side...now you can host your own server with the real security only you can provide.

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#502605 5-Aug-2011 22:30

tdgeek:
Get off topic but yes. I am trying to save to move to China where the speeds allow you to surf via private VPNs so censorship is void. Plus capitalism (Not implying China is capitalist) is a utter fail.

China is capitalist, very much so. It is also run by the communist National Party, but communist in name only.

Yeah that was a typo. I was saying I wasn't implying it isn't.

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#502635 5-Aug-2011 23:50

freitasm:

OP breaches 'soapbox' clause in FUG but I want to see other users' comments.

I don't think we should feed trolls and paranoid retards.

1: There are plenty of NZ ISP's that use still dynamically assigned ip addresses, change ISP

2: Chinese and Russian internet is about 1000x more censored than NZ. The only form of internet censorship in NZ is an opt in blacklist of child pron, some ISP's use it some don't.

3: The 3 strikes law is not internet censorship it's enforcement of civil law (copyright), copyright law has existed for hundreds of years. The internet is a disruptive technological change it will take awhile for laws, customs and business models to adapt.

I agree there are some aspects of the new law that need serious improvement but "boo hoo I might get caught downloading movies/music/tv episodes from public bit torrent trackers" it is in no way comparable to the types of political censorship that goes on in DPK and China.

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#502636 5-Aug-2011 23:51

Ragnor:
freitasm:

OP breaches 'soapbox' clause in FUG but I want to see other users' comments.

I don't think we should feed trolls and paranoid retards

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