Call Of Duty

MW2 players banned by their ISP

by Noorgrin • 10 Dec 2009, 09:09 • News
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It seems like bad news about Infinity Wards latest Call of Duty title will not stop.

Some United States of America american players reported now, that they got contacted by their ISP for breaking the terms of use for their ISP contract. Since there are no dedicated servers in MW2 multiplayer, games are hosted by the players themselves (with the IW.net system), which runs over peer-2-peer connection, just like filesharing tools for example.
So the ISP accuses their customers for "excessive filesharing over a p2p network".

Infinity Ward has not released a statement yet, but there are alot of angry players raging over at the offical CoD forums.

This could also affect users in Germany germany and other Europe european countries, who's ISPs have similar terms of use in their contracts.

Source (German):
myCoD.eu
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Noorgrin 10 Dec 2009, 09:10
made my morning when i read it, thought i need to share this :D
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JALLAAAAAA 10 Dec 2009, 12:41
too bad i'd read it @ 3/4 AM already tho i couldn't rly translate it perfect:)))) and i guess the german who gave me the link was too lazy aswell i guess :(
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Bitmap 11 Dec 2009, 11:29
You need better sources than this for news, until then this is just FUD. :P

(Would have been a funny April 1st joke though.)
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Seanza 10 Dec 2009, 09:15
Quoteper-2-per


iLold.
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Noorgrin 10 Dec 2009, 09:21
yeah fucking copy&paste, fixed :D
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spng 10 Dec 2009, 14:20
what a troll
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Seanza 10 Dec 2009, 18:36
<3 :D

cod4 c'est soir?
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oxidFimS 10 Dec 2009, 09:15
hahah nice... it is getting even worse

€: Noor overtakes cf news section! ;)
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iqezZ 10 Dec 2009, 10:00
lolZ mw2 sux totaly
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klejf 10 Dec 2009, 10:31
hey Noorgin, imma let you finish, but p2p servers are best idea of all time

OF ALL TIME
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infi_ 10 Dec 2009, 10:38
why did you open the door??!?!?!?!
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wsk 10 Dec 2009, 13:47
Why didnt you give ammo? I asked before you set the artillery! WHY DIDNT YOU GIVE AMMO?!?!??!?!
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rsp 10 Dec 2009, 15:28
Individual performances is all that matters.
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slajdan 10 Dec 2009, 11:09
lolZ mw2 sux totaly
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Arachon 10 Dec 2009, 11:25
Just make that damn patch which includes dedicated serveres, mods and consol! I would buy the game then :)
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Noorgrin 10 Dec 2009, 11:32
i guess 90% of the competitive CoD4 community would buy the game then :)
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Skydeh 10 Dec 2009, 12:17
Virgin Media in the UK have capped the p2p too and a couple of my friends have been throttled because of MW2
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duNzy 10 Dec 2009, 12:41
this is highly fucked up
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lettu 10 Dec 2009, 12:47
cant blame cod for it
there should be nothing illegal in p2p itself
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Ronner 10 Dec 2009, 13:43
That's not the only problem. Tons of ISP's prohibit users to host servers/services on their internet connection.
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overdrive 10 Dec 2009, 19:39
Yup, back in 2000 when i first got cable I already got disconnected for hosting FTP servers. There's almost no ISPs which allow people to host servers. In Belgium its only some smaller companies.
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Ronner 10 Dec 2009, 23:02
almost all in holland allow you to host a server, but I guess we're the lucky ones
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FaTTony 10 Dec 2009, 12:47
noor back to ET? :)
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Techniker 10 Dec 2009, 12:53
He already quitted again.
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Noorgrin 10 Dec 2009, 13:19
why should i ? CoD4 is great fun :)
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FaTTony 12 Dec 2009, 13:54
u never invited me to try it :(
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caliban 10 Dec 2009, 14:15
HAHAHA!!!!! I LAUGH AT YOU!!!!! Hope the providers sue all the ppl and they have to pay a whole lotta money xD

Oh yeah thats sooooooooooooo nice...thats the payback when u support crappy games and their greedy companies

oh happy day
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clarkeeboy1337 10 Dec 2009, 14:15
gonaaa buy MW2 for the ps3 soon!

who gives a fuck if there is no dedicated servers
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Scuba 10 Dec 2009, 14:47
you should be banned from life.
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spng 10 Dec 2009, 14:19
haha what a fail :D
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Shortje 10 Dec 2009, 14:28
where is my shoutout?
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Borcster 10 Dec 2009, 15:14
lol'd

This game is a farce. Although not on the same level as wolfenstein but close.
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Krosan 10 Dec 2009, 15:19
IW's failstreak continues :DDD
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GoodGuyGary 10 Dec 2009, 16:19
keeps on getting better and better, almost failing as much as wolfenstein.
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klejf 10 Dec 2009, 17:21
lets hope they make the PRESSING T WILL OPEN CHAT patch soon enough for cod, so it can sell out better
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Seanza 10 Dec 2009, 21:17
Aready one step ahead!
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quebratolas 10 Dec 2009, 16:47
FAIL GAME IS FAIL
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Hope 10 Dec 2009, 16:56
A great success is great.
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xeoxis 10 Dec 2009, 17:25
And please fucking please, fix the fucking javelyn glitch.
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Cloverfield 10 Dec 2009, 18:05
hahahahahaha roflmao thats so fuking funny
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romeozor 11 Dec 2009, 02:49
and how is the pc system different from what ppl have on the consoles for online play to punish one and not the other?
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Bitmap 11 Dec 2009, 11:20
It's about American ISPs and all you've got is a German gaming site as source for this?

You'd think this would be all over the internet if it was true, starting with American gaming sites & blogs.

Credibility: low
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Celeron 11 Dec 2009, 17:21
The news seems to have came from: http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=203408#p3226134

I wouldn't doubt it in the least though... our ISPs are especially picky about how we use our bandwidth. Hosting on Xbox Live wouldn't get you in trouble since Microsoft probably got it put on a whitelist years ago. IWNet on the other hand wouldn't have that privilege.
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