I just got a warning about downloading movies!!!!!!

[cwsiggy]

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Well the lady said they got a report, so yeah I guess they got called by them. The cable comlpany made it sound like it was definitely a warning. I doubt I'm on some list since I don't upload (leech!!!) and I only downloaded that one.

[sheryar]

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thats freaky shit.. its almost like a breach of privacy if they knew what you were downloading.

bastarrds.

[bananapeel]

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I once got a call from my cable provider warning me about my high upload rate for a month. I was uploading a lot of livesets to friends through icq/msnmessenger back then. They warned me that there is a 1 gb/month upload limit on the cable internet accounts. They were suspicious I was running some sort of shady business operation from my home account. That's Shaw Cable here in Western Canada

[picklemonkey]

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it's not that they're tracking where you go... they're just tracking what IP address you are leased each time you connect to their network. When the MPAA or RIAA or whoever sees an IP address download a file, they give the time, date, and IP to the cable company, who in turn punishes whoever matches up with the time/date/ipstamp. Just take advantage of everbody else... like Blockbuster/Netflixx/friends, or Gamestop (7-day return policy, no questions asked), etc.

[Yao]

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I hate those guys...

Over here, they've started a campaign to stop any illegal sorftware form being spread, still focusing on illegal games now. To a certain extent understandable, but I really hate them going after students now: they just don't have the money most of the time, especially when it comes to applications and stuff.

I can understand if they're going after the big ones in the scene, making big bucks off copying all that shit, but it seems like now they're actually going for the small time guy, that can't pay for it and can only get things by duplicating them. Lame as phuck if you ask me.

[lmmadic]

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friend of mine had the same thing happen to him. he also got his internet disconnected a while but got of with a warning.

but you said that the mpaa alerted them right? presumably they track certain sites (e.g. suprnova) or even file-sharing programs which must record ips when you pull from that site

suprnova doesn't work anymore :cry: or they got legal (same thing)

www.torrentspy.com

[Homskillet]

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thats freaky shit.. its almost like a breach of privacy if they knew what you were downloading.

bastarrds.

I agree... surprising that they even do that!

[toasty]

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Dude. That is friggin' scary.

[palmer]

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the italian job?

[peloquin]

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the italian job?

[arielus]

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wow, that netflix system looks great.


i wish there were a system like that in my town :P

[cwsiggy]

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the italian job?

Oh come on - It was an above average heist movie with some hottie, Donald Sutherland, and Ed Norton.

It could have been worse - they could hav egiven me a warning for downloading Budapest Whores part 5. lol

[thezzapper]

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yep. isp's are capping uploads (optimum online comes to mind as one of the worst, they will suspend your account if they decide you are using too much bandwidth, i am told), & more than likely they have the ability to know what you are downloading. i find it hard to believe the the mpaa is sophisticated enough to figure it out themselves.

time to get a new isp! check out www.speakeasy.net. they don't bother about any of that bullshit...

[shahracerx]

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wow, that netflix system looks great.


i wish there were a system like that in my town :P

I think netflix is on the web.. I wonder if it is international yet... That company has been out for ages! The best combination though... Netflix and a dvd burner! now we're talkin'... hahahah

[sammwalk]

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Well, you can't blame the movie companies for protecting their assets. Keep in mind that it does take ridiculous amounts of money to create movies- so much more than music.

I think illegal downloading will ultimately be much more harmful to the movie business than to music. Downloading just makes music less profitable; it could make movies unproducable.

And though it seems like an invasion of privacy, the telephone company does the same thing: it sees who you called, when, and for how long, and it's been doingg so for what, 90 years? It doesn't hear (hopefully) what you talked about, and almost the same thing is what we're seeing here, only BitTorrent sites monitor their files.