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Posted at 16/04/2007, 01:03
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first of all, this guys a dick and is talking out his ass. second, they sent a snail mail letter to my school, who in turn sends me an email. if you don't know what you are talking about, keep your mouth shut ass. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 01:09
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hbo is notorious for using companies like safenet etc to catch p2p users downloading their shows. many bt clients display the ip address of everyone you connect to. it is then a simple matter of doing a whois lookup to find out the owner of tha ip address range and they send a threatening letter to them. your isp takes it from there. even if you have a dynamic address, your isp assigns it to you and would have a record of who had that address at that particular time. the best way to avoid this is to either use bt for legit purposes only or use a program like peerguardian, which blocks connections to and from companies like safenet based on lists of ip addresses. there is also a plugin for azureus, but it is a real resource hog, it can double azureus' memory usage. you can find peerguardian at sourceforge. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 01:33
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*very* glad to have soprano eps again, that was a long ass break. anyone using torrents on public trackers can get cease and desist emails if their primary email is via their isp. i've gotten one before about a year ago for a film off mininova. since then, i've been using peerguardian and a firewall box, probably quadrupled my download/upload rates, and no letters. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 01:51
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can anyone tell me the name of the song in the end credits please?? thanks |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 02:08
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are the laws the same in the uk? i have never got a letter. i used to use peerguardian but i now have vista so it doesnt work, anyone got a good alternative (not protowall, tried and doesnt work). |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 03:30
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they would have to be very similar to australian law since australia is a part of the british commonwealth but this really has to do with your isp no alternatives that i know of... sorry mate, let us know if you find something |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 05:48
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 06:32
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well i see hbo is watching....this is the only way i can see it...so i will give it a go but im gonna try and use a private tracker 
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 07:19
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during the last run of the soprano's and big love i was downloading every episode. sure enough after the first couple of weeks i started getting redirected to a page displaying a letter from hbo that was sent to my isp every time i tried to get online. (it was very detailed with information about copyright violation and the dmca. it also had the exact file name of the files i had downloaded) i would have to agree stop downloading hbo content and "digitally sign" the letter before they would restore my connection. after about four or five of these letters my isp shut off my connection entirely for ten days. it's very easy for them to track you ip address, and it's real simple for them to find out the isp which owns that ip. though, hbo doesn't know any of your personal information, they do know who your isp is. so anyone who doesn't think hbo is tracking the ip addresses of people downloading their shows is just naive. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 08:03
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bullshit. please let some moderator remove these messages that are obviously planted by pranksters or mpaa/riaa scaremongers. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 08:55
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shut up. there are real emails going out from people. and stop saying scaremonger. there is a wikipedia article about hbo and their use of trackers to send cease and desist letters. i got a letter last summer off of mininova for downloading entourage. it really does happen, although supposedly no one has actually been sued by hbo, just scared. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 09:01
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just a reminder to my canadian brethren - everything's still legal in canada from what i can tell. i haven't ever received a letter, nor have i heard of anyone getting letters. and if i do i'll chalk it up to scare mongering. but for everyone else, i guess you're on your own!
uh... commonwealth has nothing to do w/ it, each country makes up their own laws. like canada. anyways, when it comes to hbo shows, there is an alternative, though i fear the mere mention of it is a bannable offence here. but rs... you can split a file into four parts, and if you have an account can have them all dl'ed in half an hour. and while i assume rs knows what your ip is as you're getting a file, i'm pretty sure they don't log it & wouldn't care. so it would definitely be a suitable alternative for these hbo programs that people may or may not be getting in trouble over. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 10:40
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i can't believe people don't understand how you can be tracked, or don't believe you are getting letters. all these people are telling you they have gotten them, i have gotten my internet shutoff personally. i'm not trying to scare everyone, i'm trying to warn them. i've said this before, even you people who don't believe in the letters or getting tracked can figure this out: open your bittorrent client. open an eztv torrent. go to your connected clients list. voila, there you have it. you are done. there would be one more step if you were working for an anti-p2p company. write those down, send them off to your hbo client. |
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Posted at 16/04/2007, 10:43
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it can help, but please don't tout it as a solve-all for p2p problems. it is simply a blacklist, with no way of blocking everyone that is working against p2p. and besides, people get nailed while using it. so for those interested in the truth, yes it can help, but it is certainly no guarantee that it will stop your internet from being shut down (usually temporarily) or getting a letter from your isp. |
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