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Russ86

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"This notice is being sent to you by Road Runner Customer Care because we have received a complaint that your computer has been used to distribute copyrighted material without authorization through a peer-to-peer program. We received this complaint from the movie studio, record company, television studio or other company that owns the copyrighted material. A copy of the complaint is included with this message and contains details about the copyrighted file(s). The purpose of this message is to remind you that the distribution of copyrighted material in this fashion may violate both the copyright laws and Road Runner's terms of service, and to tell you a bit about peer-to-peer programs, the dangers they can pose to your computer and our network, and the steps you can take to protect yourself."
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Received my first one of these today and I was like 'ah, fuck.. I forgot to stop seeding that movie'. I know better than seeding public movie torrents, I just got sloppy. Fucking Time Warner cracks me up tho, they blocked my internet and forwarded my browser to a user agreement saying that I will take measures to ensure it will not do it again, like flexing their muscles and using it as a scare tactic.


Has anyone here actually been permanently banned from their ISP for this, or know someone who has? Personally I think it is a load of shit, especially considering all of the idiots in the world that are figuring out the wonders of public torrents.. if they shut off all of their internet, they would lose a lot of business.

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I know a girl whose brother got their home service shut down twice, the last time for a bootlegged, pre-release version of Left for Dead 2. They kept just signing up for cable in another roommate's name.

That, and made him stop downloading stuff without going through proxies.
 
Skippy McGee said:
I know a girl whose brother got their home service shut down twice, the last time for a bootlegged, pre-release version of Left for Dead 2. They kept just signing up for cable in another roommate's name.

That, and made him stop downloading stuff without going through proxies.
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Left 4 dead, really? That's pretty crazy, thought they were only scanning for movies and tv shows mainly.
 
Use a vpn and you will not have any problems. Your isp will not be able to see what you are doing and they are cheap, I pay like $60 a year.
 
ARVolund said:
Use a vpn and you will not have any problems. Your isp will not be able to see what you are doing and they are cheap, I pay like $60 a year.
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Meh, I get what you are saying but I would rather just use private trackers... In fact I think if I don't seed public torrents after I've downloaded them, the chances of getting caught are virtually zero. A better solution may be to get a client that automatically stops torrents after downloading.. Bitcomet may do this.
 
A good friend of mine got his shutoff last month. He's not tech savvy at all, was actually the first time he'd downloaded a movie. But it was a public torrent. They locked him out, called him up and he had to pay $200-$300 to get it reactivated.

This was Mediacom cable about a month ago.
 
scottspfd82 said:
A good friend of mine got his shutoff last month. He's not tech savvy at all, was actually the first time he'd downloaded a movie. But it was a public torrent. They locked him out, called him up and he had to pay $200-$300 to get it reactivated.

This was Mediacom cable about a month ago.
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Damn, 1st offense? that's pretty harsh, never heard of that before. And never heard of paying a reactivation fee like that either, fucking insane.
 
Stay away from public torrents if they are new and have an unusually high number of seeds.

I used to use PeerGuardian2 back when I was into torrents. It blocks at the packet level, but you want to use something to make blocklists for it and keep them up to date.

A lot of the anti-p2p software out there will send you an unusually high amount of bad data. Have your blocklist manager (and torrent client) add anything that sends you x bad data, where x < the size of 1 piece.

It's usually not in the ISPs' best interest to shut people down. Without p2p, we probably wouldn't have broadband. Some ISPs like comcast will throttle your bandwidth if they detect torrent-ish activity. The only real way they detect this on their own (without complaint emails) is to monitor those commonly used port ranges like 6xxx-7xxx. But most torrent clients now let you use random ports anyway.
 
VPN doesn't always work, I got a similar email from my VPN provider for using torrents.
 
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