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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
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cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
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Navane
Netherlands2749 Posts
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
On March 29 2009 02:40 Navane wrote: Yeah, I got a letter for sharing a stupid movie i didnt even watch because it was so bad, and GTA. How do you know it was bad if you didn't watch it? :p | ||
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Puosu
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Diomedes
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Folca
2235 Posts
On March 29 2009 02:35 BlackJack wrote: I lost my internet connection this morning. A few hours later I got around to calling my ISP for tech support and the tech support guy told me my connection was "deactivated by the securities department" and he gave me a number and ref. number to call. They said my connection was deactivated because of copyright infringement for Frost/Nixon. They said I had to stop sharing it for them to turn it back on. I deleted it from my torrent and they turned my internet back on. Anyone ever hear anything like this happening? I use Vuze for torrents and COX is my ISP. What company are you? | ||
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So no fek
United States3001 Posts
A few months after that, I was downloading and episode of Friday Night Lights I had missed. I was paranoid, because my internet was shut off right as I was browsing the NBC website, watching another episode. I had to call Cox that time, and they guy talked to me and was like "I just have to tell you that we have a three strike rule. If we have to stop your service again, your account will be up for review, and we'll decide if we want to keep you as a customer." I've been really careful with my downloading since then. My best guess is that the owners of popular content are tracking IPs via torrents, and then informing the ISPs. But I have no idea how it works. | ||
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FlamyDeath
Netherlands146 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5525 Posts
you should learn to use peerguardian i your sticking with torrents | ||
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Kennelie
United States2296 Posts
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BuGzlToOnl
United States5918 Posts
On March 29 2009 03:54 Kennelie wrote: Wow I have had friends receive letters from there ISP to not be sharing/dl'ing stuff but have never had or heard of anybodies net to be turned off. That fuckin sucks dude. U might want to stay away from public torrents from now on if thats the case. Can you get caught if you're using private torrents? | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
Also, what trackers are public and what ones are private? | ||
CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11591 Posts
www.peerguardian.com | ||
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BuGzlToOnl
United States5918 Posts
On March 29 2009 04:17 CaucasianAsian wrote: they are private because not many people know of them, and usually require invites. www.peerguardian.com This sends me to e-harmony website... | ||
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StalinRusH
United States734 Posts
 yeah iv gotten notices myself >_> scares the shit out of me...but they will nvr take me alive BELIEVE IT~ | ||
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Racenilatr
United States2756 Posts
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chobopeon
United States7342 Posts
On March 29 2009 04:17 CaucasianAsian wrote: they are private because not many people know of them, and usually require invites. www.peerguardian.com yeah, OP, do you use peerguardian? | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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Samurai-
Slovenia2035 Posts
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GTR
51531 Posts
Most excruciating experience ever. I only use private trackers now, can't trust public at all. | ||
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MyCrow
Korea (South)248 Posts
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
On March 29 2009 06:26 MyCrow wrote: I read yesterday that AT&T (my ISP) will also be doing this. I wonder if Demonoid is fine to use? demonoid is terrible for this kind of thing | ||
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PriitM
Algeria181 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11554 Posts
I guess I'll have to find some more private trackers. Anybody know if What or Demonoid will still be ok? | ||
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Nytefish
United Kingdom4282 Posts
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
Seriously though, torrents (especially public ones) are just asking for it. Anyone can join the tracker and see who else is on it. + Show Spoiler + binary newsgroups, on the other hand, are nice | ||
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PriitM
Algeria181 Posts
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
Of course that doesn't work for everyone, as some ISPs don't carry usenet, or block the alt. hierarchy. | ||
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cujo2k
Canada1044 Posts
But if you use all private trackers, you'll probably never get caught.. so thats my suggestion. look for good private torrent sites | ||
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EscPlan9
United States2777 Posts
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Zombie Download
United Kingdom6 Posts
On March 29 2009 05:35 R1CH wrote: PeerGuardian won't help. This is true. It may help to some degree, however peerguardian can only block ips that are known to belong to copyright enforcing agencies and I assure you there are more IPs where those came from. That being said, it certainly couldn't hurt in the future. Really all they have to use is a modified torrent client which just grabs the IPs of everyone seeding and leaching off of the torrent. You can even do the same yourself by checking the IP addresses of the people you are connected to on the torrent. This problem is of course bypassed with private torrent sites, however those are difficult to get into and I'm not even talking about the really private ones, even the less private places like demonoid can be hard enough if you don't know somebody. EDIT: I forgot to mention the important thing is that if you can get into a private tracker, so can a copyright agency, so a less private one may not really protect you like you want it to. | ||
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yenta
Poland1142 Posts
On March 29 2009 06:06 Samurai- wrote: Can only happen in USA. Internet deactivated haha, what a joke... Actually this happens in Poland as well, I wouldn't be surprised if this happens in multiple countries. When I lived in the US and had COX/Comcast/TimeWarner we ( roomates & I ) would have this happen as TimeWarner customers - usually I would go to a website and would have a form stating "Your account is in violation of downloading this & that, stop it, Do you agree Yes/No" And clicking Yes would unblock the account. | ||
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Tekin
2711 Posts
 I already have a shitty internet(Time Warner), lucky I don't torrent anymore | ||
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IzzyCraft
United States4487 Posts
On March 29 2009 06:26 MyCrow wrote: I read yesterday that AT&T (my ISP) will also be doing this. I wonder if Demonoid is fine to use? http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/mpaa-asking-isp.html http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Testing-New-RIAA-Warning-System-101536 Yeah testing a 3rd strikes rule that's about it, At&t wont shut off service to you without a court order is their stance though i believe, But the have been scaring the shit out of ppl giving calls and sending emails that they know what you are doing. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-We-Wont-Boot-P2P-Users-101573 Cox is the only one currently enforcing the 3rd strikes thing i would change services or get a megaupload account or something... | ||
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Samurai-
Slovenia2035 Posts
On March 29 2009 12:52 Tekin wrote: Wow this a first I already have a shitty internet(Time Warner), lucky I don't torrent anymore You dont torrent? What do you use internet for then ? | ||
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Malongo
Chile3472 Posts
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PriitM
Algeria181 Posts
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
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PriitM
Algeria181 Posts
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
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Makhno
Sweden585 Posts
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NonFactor
Sweden698 Posts
On March 29 2009 21:48 Makhno wrote: This reminded me that in Sweden there's a new law being put to practice in two days that forces the internet-providers to release all information they have on a customer about copyright infringement. That is going to suck so hard because they wont stop at shutting down your internet, you might also go to court. >:/ Yeah. Gay. I was just wondering though if anybody knows, are the chances of getting caught lesser when downloading from a site like rapidshare? Because I see all this talk about bittorrents, but I don't really see anything about direct downloading. Rapidshare for example, has most shit you look for, so as long as you have an account, you can easily download most games, movies, etc, faster even then you would with some random public torrent. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On March 29 2009 16:59 Samurai- wrote: You dont torrent? What do you use internet for then ? Browsing TL.net obviously. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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On March 29 2009 22:20 NonFactor wrote: >:/ Yeah. Gay. I was just wondering though if anybody knows, are the chances of getting caught lesser when downloading from a site like rapidshare? Because I see all this talk about bittorrents, but I don't really see anything about direct downloading. Rapidshare for example, has most shit you look for, so as long as you have an account, you can easily download most games, movies, etc, faster even then you would with some random public torrent. the chances of getting caught go down to 0% the issue here is uploading, not downloading. | ||
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Epicfailguy
Norway893 Posts
On March 29 2009 04:13 BuGzlToOnl wrote: Can you get caught if you're using private torrents? I dont think so. I've been downloading shit from a private tracker site for a long time, since im connected to the schools internet, and they've never said anything. A friend of mine downloaded "Liar liar" from an open tracker and got busted. | ||
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
Scared the hell out of me because in my neighborhood there's only one provider. I would be stuck with dial-up if I got shut down. =[ | ||
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IzzyCraft
United States4487 Posts
On March 30 2009 06:43 travis wrote: the chances of getting caught go down to 0% the issue here is uploading, not downloading. There is a reason why ADSL is cheaper then SDSL download bandwidth is cheap upload is not. | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
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IzzyCraft
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Fr33t
United States1128 Posts
Come on people.. | ||
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