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I just purchased Hotspot Shield and I've got everything connected and I tried to continue with my Torrents.

 

I get absolutely nothing when I'm connected, once I disconnect it downloads.

 

When disconnected

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After just connecting

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Once connected

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Reading through the T&C I'm guessing this is the reason

"6.3 Content Restrictions. YOU MAY NOT (AND MAY NOT ALLOW A THIRD PARTY TO) COPY, REPRODUCE, CAPTURE, STORE, RETRANSMIT, DISTRIBUTE, OR BURN TO CD (OR ANY OTHER FORMAT) ANY COPYRIGHTED CONTENT THAT YOU ACCESS OR RECEIVE WHILE USING THE HOTSPOT SHIELD SOFTWARE OR SERVICE. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK AND LIABILITY FOR ANY SUCH PROHIBITED USE OF COPYRIGHTED CONTENT."

 

Well this is a deal breaker for me, and if anyone else was thinking about getting HSS before the offer is up, I suppose this is a bit of advice.

 

Before I get a refund, anyone have a way around this?

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But you can also torrent legal stuff, so technically they should allow torrenting

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But you can also torrent legal stuff, so technically they should allow torrenting

My point exactly, probably just going to contact their support and ask about it, if there's no solution for me, I'll refund.

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My point exactly, probably just going to contact their support and ask about it, if there's no solution for me, I'll refund.

Good luck on the journey to the land of customer support

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Good luck on the journey to the land of customer support

I have a feeling this is going to take a few days

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"YOU ASSUME ALL RISK AND LIABILITY FOR ANY SUCH PROHIBITED USE OF COPYRIGHTED CONTENT." This bit here makes me think they are telling you that you can technically do what ever you want with it but its your own problem when you get in trouble if you do ever get in trouble. But asuming your not breaking any laws then...this thing is kind of pointless for your usage case.

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I use www.privateinternetaccess.com and I can torrent on it, it's slightly slower that without it but only slightly. I can stream USA shows and stuff and it's been OK, there has been the odd problem here and there but nothing major...

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Why do you need to use Hotspot Shield btw o_o

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Why do you need to use Hotspot Shield btw o_o

1. Save data on my phone

2. Torrent without my ISP throttling me

 

And a few other things like it being better to not have your own IP on display.

 

EDIT: and US Netflix.

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Your ISP won't throttle you unless you're on something like TalkTalk. All I can say is "BT is Awesome". They haven't throttled me at any time... I get a constant stream of 6Mb, whish is about 3x the speed of what TalkTalk used to give.

For Hulu and American Netflix etc, I use something called MediaHint. It doesn't really slow your traffic down and it is only active when you are on the restricted sites. I don't get the need for a VPN to be honest unless you feel your connection is really compromisable. Such as if you piggyback off of a Coffee shop a lot.

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Your ISP won't throttle you unless you're on something like TalkTalk. All I can say is "BT is Awesome". They haven't throttled me at any time... I get a constant stream of 6Mb, whish is about 3x the speed of what TalkTalk used to give.

For Hulu and American Netflix etc, I use something called MediaHint. It doesn't really slow your traffic down and it is only active when you are on the restricted sites. I don't get the need for a VPN to be honest unless you feel your connection is really compromisable. Such as if you piggyback off of a Coffee shop a lot.

I use MediaHint, but it sometimes blocks me from watching some stuff in the UK so I have to go disable it, I know same problem with the VPN.

 

Virgin Media throttle.

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I use MediaHint, but it sometimes blocks me from watching some stuff in the UK so I have to go disable it, I know same problem with the VPN.

 

Virgin Media throttle.

Ah right. I didn't know that they did all the time, only at peak hours. But won't they throttle the VPN as it is still P to P?

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Ah right. I didn't know that they did all the time, only at peak hours. But won't they throttle the VPN as it is still P to P?

They throttle when they know it's Torrents, other stuff is okay.

Also at peak hours it's a pain.

 

I'll live without a VPN for a while, don't need it right now and I would rather buy some BTC.

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Virgin will throttle no matter if you use a VPN or not, as soon as you go over their piss poor low fair usage limit your bandwidth is halved for 5 hours no matter what you have been using it for,

 

edit they have changed it, still crap though

 

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=3103&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable

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They throttle when they know it's Torrents, other stuff is okay.

Also at peak hours it's a pain.

 

I'll live without a VPN for a while, don't need it right now and I would rather buy some BTC.

 

Virgin will throttle no matter if you use a VPN or not, as soon as you go over their piss poor low fair usage limit your bandwidth is halved for 5 hours no matter what you have been using it for,

 

edit they have changed it, still crap though

 

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=3103&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable

 

That really sucks. Are you in a BT FTTP/FTTC area, or is it just Virgin Media?

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Sorry for the megabump, but as a allover download forbidding law is coming really close for the Netherlands, I'm looking for a torrenting VPN.

How did this ever end up?

I'm dutch, so feel free to correct any spelling mistakes I might make.  I try to do the best I can!

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Sorry for the megabump, but as a allover download forbidding law is coming really close for the Netherlands, I'm looking for a torrenting VPN.

How did this ever end up?

This is not the VPN if you want to torrent on, sadly.

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