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?

  • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.works
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    8 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.

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      8 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.

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      8 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.