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

[CHRISHOGGALYPSE]

I work for a cable company and they'll shut people's internet down quite a bit for downloading pirated movies. That's the main thing they shut it down for

 

[DJ Mark 7]

at the ISP I work for we only contact people who host copy written content on our webspace. If it's from torrents or p2p we don't even bother sending a letter.

 

[xraidedloc831]

at the ISP I work for we only contact people who host copy written content on our webspace. If it's from torrents or p2p we don't even bother sending a letter.

Whats up Mark 7, That baffles me as I download movies all the time and never have had so much as a single letter. But its when I clicked on Megamind 2010 Cam-CLASSiFiED and unchecked the movie and only selected the sample to download to check out the cam quality, thats when I received a letter. Im sure its just coincidence but still, I was not hosting anything or uploading at all minus the auto uploading utorrent does within the 20seconds it took me to get the 5mb sample.

 

[Az-iz]

I used to get the letters all the time from cox for downloading the sopranos years ago. I started using a neighbors wifi and downloaded Kung Fu panda for my kids. A few days later their Internet was suspended when I tried to log on. It told them to call the 1800 on the home page when you try to connect to the Internet. It also said to remove Kung Fu panda files completely.

 

[xraidedloc831]

yea, ya think? :beard: :ermm:

Some of the shit in this thread just makes me laugh...

#1 - if you're using torrents, you might as well expect to get one of these letters sooner or later... the safest way if you must use torrents is going through a private site like demonoid but even that isn't 100% safe.

#2 - peerguardian and others like it give nothing but a false sense of security. If it makes you feel safer, fine, but you're only fooling yourself.

#3



no, sorry. YOU SIR are the dumbshit. File hosting sites like rapidshare, hotfile, megaupload etc are THE SAFEST WAY to download movies / albums, etc. THE #1 way you get flagged and caught is by uploading. When you download from file hosting sites, you don't do ANY uploading. The only risk you run is if the file you're downloading has code written in to send your information on to a certain entity when the file is unzipped / opened. The fix? Simple. Disconnect from the internet before opening the file. Problem solved.

Some of you have no clue how torrents work but... live and learn, right? Do your homework before trying to outsmart the interwebz.

And exactly how, since your so smart, are we suppose to determine if the file is coded or not to send your info out on the copywrite and therefore determine to disconnect from the internet before opening?

 

[xraidedloc831]

naw not hard at all, but how sure are you that the information is coded to be sent out only upon opening and not during playing or once you reconnect to the internet. To me the only way to be 100% safe is to not download at all. I think your fooling yourself if you think disconnecting from the internet before you open each file is going to keep you 100% safe. Its smart but I wouldnt say its 100%. and how does that work if you stream the files?

 

[montroller510]

they get your info from IP lists in your torrent client...

demonoid isnt a private tracker

the newest downloads like just released DVD's and CAM's are gunna get more attention because there are more people downloading from it at once so they only have to go through a few torrents to acquire a decent sized list

DO NOT REPLY IF YOU CAN HELP IT repyling is admitting basically

EDIT: uploading has nothing to do with it unless your the one dropping new releases in which case im sure you have some form of privacy set up if you download something dont be a dick and not seed it dont let fear mongering kill the P2P community

 

[SeriouslyThug]

i been dl movie torrents for a long time. Recently tho when i downloaded avatar i recieved a few letters from comcast. One was for my downloading and the other two for my uploading of the movie.
Like somebody already said in this threat, Peerblock for the win.

 

[Home-E]

this thread is full of misinformation!

I was just about to type that and then I saw your post. Hah

 

[xraidedloc831]

This thread has allot of entertaining comments lol.

 

[rip.]

Seems like there are some dumb motherfuckers in this thread. How do you propose one goes about avoiding getting a letter?

Not being a dumb motherfucker is a start.