BT is pretty far down the list of things you need to be worried about. In most cases the worst that can happen is getting a nastygram from your ISP, and after repeated incidents you lose your service. But that depends greatly on the ISP and your location. Some ISPs don't care.
I don't know of anyone that has been convicted of Torrenting content. All the cases I've seen to date have been of people using more traditional file sharing services like BearShare or LimeWire. And the illegal part is sharing/uploading not really downloading (at least what is enforced). So in my opinion you should not really worry too much about BT. You are in much bigger trouble if anyone using your network downloads some kiddie porn, or tries to hack/DDoS a website. And you can't really prevent any of your users from doing any of that 100% effectively. ----------- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2011-02-28, at 4:07 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to block employees or anybody else from using my router to > download torrents. It is a separate router, wireless WPA2 and wired, off my > primary router, with a different IP that I make available to them, friends, > and family. I just want to make sure nothing goes on intentionally, or not, > that is going to cause me problems. > > m > > > > At 12:58 PM 2/28/2011, you wrote: >> There isn't one - torrents can use any port. And there are plenty of >> legitimate uses for torrents - Blizzard uses BitTorrent to download updates >> for its games - so completely blocking them may break some things. >> >> What is it you are trying to do? >> >> ----------- >> Brian >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 2011-02-28, at 3:53 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > What port would I block on my router (home class) to prevent people from >> > downloading torrents? thanks >> > >
