My father just received a second letter from our cable provider regarding my delinquent brother downloading movies. They state they were notified by the RIAA (or some similar group) a second time about an illegal download and if it happens one more time the cable company will be forced to shut off our service. We depend on this company for TV, phone as well as internet so switching companies will be costly and a pain.
My dad wants to just get rid of the internet service but I’d really rather not have to go to my neighbors or the library to check email or pay bills when I get back from college for the summer.
We were promised after the first letter that the downloads would stop but obviously my brother can’t be trusted. Is there any simple way to throttle these large downloads from the router side? (rather than on his laptop). Ideally such a product could identify large downloads but not impact online gaming or legal downloads via the playstation network.
