Has anyone received a warning letter from Comcast concerning copywrite infringement?

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montroller510

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"As you have found out, copyright holders hire anti-p2p orgs to monitor torrents with their content. They join the swarms, copy the IPs from the peer list, and send out letters to the ISPs they belong to.

What should you do now?

You should not respond to the letter if at all possible, and if you must respond to it (for example, some ISPs have begun disabling internet access on just the first offense until the customer contacts them) you should not admit to anything. Plead ignorance. Tell them for all you know it was a family member, a friend, neighbor etc. Ask them if it's possible that they made a mistake. None of those are valid excuses as the customer can be held to account for any activity on their account, but they are better used than any admission that you did download the content in question.

Then quit downloading anything at all at least for a while.

If and when you do resume downloading, stay away from newer and more popular content. All copyrighted content can be monitored and earn you another letter like yours (or get your service disconnected), not just newer stuff, but the newest stuff, ie: cams, telesyncs, screeners, r5s, newly released DVDs/blu-rays, popular games, television shows, etc, are much more likely to be monitored than older stuff will.

Don't be duped into a false sense of security by any app that claims to offer you some protection from being detected. IP blocklists like PG2 & Blutack etc are useless."
 
Rossibreath

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Jack Tracks said:
I got a similar thing multiple times from COX in SD and my problem was when I was streaming it to my PS3 it seemed like I was sharing the copywritten files. They knew exactly what the file names were and once the specific ones were deleted I called back they verified they were deleted then they returned service. It was hella creepy they could access all that info so quickly.. Fast times at ridgemont high was one of the titles this happened on and they suspended my service immediately and also restored it immediately.
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Lol @ COX
 
Mcthuggin99

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LiterACola said:
i taught my dad how to download torrents but told him to stop seeding as soon as the file was done. he didn't listen to me and got the letter and it scared him outta it. if i got the letter i'd probably stop too but my experience has told me that uploading is what gets you in trouble...
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thats what i do, as soon as the download is finished, i stop seeding immediately.
 
DFresh77

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Jack Tracks said:
I got a similar thing multiple times from COX in SD and my problem was when I was streaming it to my PS3 it seemed like I was sharing the copywritten files. They knew exactly what the file names were and once the specific ones were deleted I called back they verified they were deleted then they returned service. It was hella creepy they could access all that info so quickly.. Fast times at ridgemont high was one of the titles this happened on and they suspended my service immediately and also restored it immediately.
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how in the fuck would they know what you streaming to your ps3 from your PC?

unless you was on a streaming website on your PS3..

PC to PS3 streaming = it uses your own network, not your ISP.
 
ColdBlooded

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I never got one from Comcast.

I did however get a number of these from Charter when they were my internet provider. All the claims were from HBO for downloading shows like Generation Kill.

I just stopped seeding the torrents and tossed the letters.
 
MysticOracle

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i got that letter a few years back for downloading spiderman 2 when that was still big shit...personally its kinda intimidating getting that letter....just cause i dont wanna get sued for a million dollars over a shit movie....these days i dont download shit on any torrent site...i stick with demonoid and dont download anything from there that is external ( outside the site ) its been said that riaa or anti piracy agencies track you by those external torrents...i havent had any issues since i stick to downloading from other users on a private site
 
xraidedloc831

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Rezin said:
lol @ people thinking torrents are somehow riskier than other d/l's.

Just don't be dumb....and you wont get a letter.
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lol agree and I am not one of the dumb ones thank you! lol. I know damn well its a risk no matter what, Your a dumb shit if you think downloading through file hosting sites like hotfile and rapidshare makes it any safer cause your not uploading. lol come on!
 
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DFresh77 said:
how in the fuck would they know what you streaming to your ps3 from your PC?

unless you was on a streaming website on your PS3..

PC to PS3 streaming = it uses your own network, not your ISP.
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i dunno i was using a program called HFS. You loaded the file on the that program then went to your IP address on your PS3 Browser and the file would be there. You would select it press triangle and save the file to the hard drive on the PS3. Now i just drag the file from azerus on to the little ps3 icon and its there and streaming.
 
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