EPTI wonder if I'm safe on wifi, though. There are a bunch of places on campus that have wifi. It's still the school's wifi, but at that point, can they tell who's downloading the stuff?
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YejinYejin
United States1053 Posts
I wonder if I'm safe on wifi, though. There are a bunch of places on campus that have wifi. It's still the school's wifi, but at that point, can they tell who's downloading the stuff? | ||
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PetitCrabe
Canada410 Posts
On December 09 2010 07:49 DTK-m2 wrote: I'm at college, and in our dorms we only have wired internet connection, so they basically know whatever's going on. If our volume of internet use is too high, they'll start looking at content, and if we're downloading illegally, they can stop our internet use. I wonder if I'm safe on wifi, though. There are a bunch of places on campus that have wifi. It's still the school's wifi, but at that point, can they tell who's downloading the stuff? At mcgill, if you wana use school's wifi, you gotta connect with your mcgill email, so yeah my school knows who is on the internet or not... Being in Canada though, it's awesome! You can download movies shows and musics legally as long as you don't profit from it. I knew some friends who checked deeper in the law, and it seems that they mostly go after people that uploads the content online and not the ones that download it... | ||
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Joementum
787 Posts
You can't get sued by email. If you get sued, you'll be given the same offer to settle with them. They have no evidence and they can't prove that you were the one that downloaded the item in question unless you stupidly admit to it. If someone feeds off your internet connection and downloads something, you're not responsible for what they did. (At least, this is what I'm getting from the 3 cases I've heard about.) Speaking of which, I'm going to go buy an email list and just shoot off hundreds of emails stating that the person downloaded something illegally and they should pay me $20. I wonder how many takers I would get. + Show Spoiler + I'm not really going to do it, but it would be interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if I get at least a 40% conversion rate or something stupid like that. After all, it wouldn't be hard to word the entire email to the point where I'm not saying you have to pay $20, but if you do it has the possibility of helping your chances in not getting sued. I'm so clever. <-Joke | ||
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bakedace
United States672 Posts
Others have been fined millions of dollars..consider yourself kinda lucky. | ||
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tarpman
Canada718 Posts
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
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Manifesto7
Osaka27139 Posts
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Roxen
United States11 Posts
I had 2 strikes against me a few years ago, and have since switched to usenet, look into it. | ||
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lastmotion
368 Posts
On December 09 2010 11:36 Manifesto7 wrote: It is just telling you not to DL stuff. You aren't going to get sued. You saw the post in the spoiler tag where they asked for money right? I hope you're right From doing a little research and really listening to you guys, I'm most likely going to ignore it. I don't doubt that its a real law group but as many have said, I don't think they will pursue it. Anyway, after this, I'll let you guys know and keep you all updated with results | ||
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Whiladan
United States463 Posts
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Manifesto7
Osaka27139 Posts
On December 09 2010 13:11 lastmotion wrote: You saw the post in the spoiler tag where they asked for money right? I hope you're right From doing a little research and really listening to you guys, I'm most likely going to ignore it. I don't doubt that its a real law group but as many have said, I don't think they will pursue it. Anyway, after this, I'll let you guys know and keep you all updated with results It is to scare people into paying. How can you not see the ridiculous nature of "hey you did something bad, so give us money and we will go away". They are not traffic cops giving our parking tickets. | ||
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Bright]
United States118 Posts
I doubt you have to worry about anything that much. Like others have said, just be careful! | ||
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DoctorHelvetica
United States15034 Posts
Download stuff from rapidshare (using sites like warez-bb.org) or get on demonoid or whatever private tracker you want (bitgamer, passthepopcorn, bakabt, what.cd, etc.) and you're less likely to get "caught". | ||
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Soviet_Birthday
United States48 Posts
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Adeeler
United Kingdom764 Posts
Other then that you could: dl via your ISP's newsgroups (dependant on your isp a lot do have them) dl speeds are usually max you can get to your isp and they are happy you use them rather then normal traffic for dling stuff via torrents and stuff. Use an Anon proxy, move somewhere they don't care. | ||
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lastmotion
368 Posts
I just saw this article. Now I changed my mind again... | ||
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lastmotion
368 Posts
On December 10 2010 08:25 lastmotion wrote: http://www.phatforums.org/9055-alleged-pirates-sued-by-4-porn-studios/ I just saw this article. Now I changed my mind again... nevermind...i think the article is fake..the site itself seems like a blog, and when i try to post a comment, it won't even show up | ||
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sOvrn
United States678 Posts
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lastmotion
368 Posts
On December 10 2010 09:12 Sultan.P wrote: Contact an attorney. If that's the only thing you've received, then you're not being sued yet. I would just stop downloading, contact an attorney and see what your potential liability is. Don't pay anything either as this may be a scam or could have other unintended consequences. you do realize that attorney would cost more than paying off the settelement fee | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
On December 09 2010 06:22 lastmotion wrote: well I downloaded the file from piratebay. I never uploaded or anything. Im on my phone so forgive me but, if you torrent you upload its as simple as that(sorry if you already addressed this) | ||
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