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Hope you're not one of these 50,000.....
Hurt Locker lawsuit: 50,000 sued for BitTorrent downloads - Jun. 10, 2011
Hurt Locker lawsuit: 50,000 sued for BitTorrent downloads - Jun. 10, 2011
Do You Use BitTorrent?
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EmptyTimCup
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no interest in that movie
I guess I am safe ......
these Lawyers are getting butt hurt by the Judge .......
http://forums.somd.com/computers-te...e-furious-inexcusable-p2p-lawyering-nuke.html
I guess I am safe ......
these Lawyers are getting butt hurt by the Judge .......
http://forums.somd.com/computers-te...e-furious-inexcusable-p2p-lawyering-nuke.html
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EmptyTimCup
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BitTorrent... very dangerous. Full of malware. If you want your computer infected beyond belief, use BitTorrent.
I haven't had a problem in 3 yrs
PsyOps
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EmptyTimCup
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smarter internet user ......
you don't download something that "Just Came OUT"
wait a few weeks ... read the comments, use a good virus scanner and dont be in a hurry ...
my son ( you can lead horse to water .... ) got burned a couple yrs ago ....
Mongo53
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Try Limewire and Sharebear, my daughter has decimated computers in her possession using that crap.
Really what it comes down to, is know what you're downloading, she could never be bothered to scrutinize anything and happily downloaded trojan horses and open them right up without even looking.
And it was my daughter that downloaded the latest Rap song the day it came out, that resulted in me getting an e-mail from our ISP saying the owners of the song had indentified our IP as illegally downloading it. I had to chew her and the rest of the kids out.
Best I can tell though, it was just a warning that the ISP passes along when they get them. It mentioned their policies, and violating can result in bans. But it did NOT say it was our only or last warning.
Comcast has a record of giving people one warning then banning them for life, NOT particularly enthusiased about losing our only access to high speed internet, even though I can't stand COMCAST and would switch in a second if I had an alternative.
I've seen posts where people have said they got several of these warnings, and it never resulted in anything. NOT that I'm recommended tempting your ISP or song owners by ignoring them.
From what I read, keeping file sharing running constantly, with material up being shared after you've downlaoded it, increases your exposure and chances of being noticed, makes sense, but NOT breaking the law is the best way NOT to get in trouble.
Someone said there are proxy servers that you can use to hide you IP address, I don't know how to do it, and certainly won't let my kids do it, I've just uninstalled any file sharing and told them don't do it anymore, if they get caught another time we may lose internet.
Funny thing is, most of the people getting sued for downloading the hurt locker, its adding injury to insult, god that movie was horrible BS totally created from bogus steorotypes that are totally untrue.
Really what it comes down to, is know what you're downloading, she could never be bothered to scrutinize anything and happily downloaded trojan horses and open them right up without even looking.
And it was my daughter that downloaded the latest Rap song the day it came out, that resulted in me getting an e-mail from our ISP saying the owners of the song had indentified our IP as illegally downloading it. I had to chew her and the rest of the kids out.
Best I can tell though, it was just a warning that the ISP passes along when they get them. It mentioned their policies, and violating can result in bans. But it did NOT say it was our only or last warning.
Comcast has a record of giving people one warning then banning them for life, NOT particularly enthusiased about losing our only access to high speed internet, even though I can't stand COMCAST and would switch in a second if I had an alternative.
I've seen posts where people have said they got several of these warnings, and it never resulted in anything. NOT that I'm recommended tempting your ISP or song owners by ignoring them.
From what I read, keeping file sharing running constantly, with material up being shared after you've downlaoded it, increases your exposure and chances of being noticed, makes sense, but NOT breaking the law is the best way NOT to get in trouble.
Someone said there are proxy servers that you can use to hide you IP address, I don't know how to do it, and certainly won't let my kids do it, I've just uninstalled any file sharing and told them don't do it anymore, if they get caught another time we may lose internet.
Funny thing is, most of the people getting sued for downloading the hurt locker, its adding injury to insult, god that movie was horrible BS totally created from bogus steorotypes that are totally untrue.
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EmptyTimCup
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probably downloaded it from a RIAA Honeypot
a buddy of mine downloaded Adobe CS 3 ? some yrs ago ... he wanted to check out the new version before upgrading .... with in 2 days he got a letter from Comcrap - Adobe, about the downloads to his IP ....
I still have yet to see one thing (and I run 2 open wireless hotspots) ........ if I get close or go over 250 Gb of bandwidth in a month, i will get dropped for a few hours ...
Mongo53
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Yea, I worry my kids might have downloaded "The Hurt Locker", I've caught them with other movies and chewed them out. I haven't heard anything, so I keep my fingers crossed.
probably downloaded it from a RIAA Honeypot
I got NetFlix, cost as much as renting 2 movies a month for unlimited movies really, although there is a wait involved for a day for shipping one at a time. Seems to have prevented them from succumbing to the temptation so to speak.
From what I read of Comcast Policy, if you go over you 250Gb monthly bandwidth, you'll get one warning, do it a second time you will be banned from service for life.
Seems rather drastic to me, but I've never gone over my 250gb monthly allowance.
Sounds like from what your saying they don't stick by that and just give you a couple hour slap on the wrist?
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EmptyTimCup
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yeah I only know from using uTorrent (it is set to track inbound and outbound traffic) and I cap that @ 200 - 210 .... but I do not usually come close to that ...... grabbing the occasional TV show ... or if a couple good movies are out at the same time ....
oh and I discovered HDTV ... so TV shows are now 1.0x Gb where a show is 500-750 mg for standard format ..... dont get me started on Blueray movies
if I could pay 30 bucks a month and watch anything I wanted, when I wanted, I would have no use for torrents ........ but I refuse to schedule life around TV .... I am not their Puppet
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Mongo53
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No, Netflix is $10, I have a HTPC running WMC, so it runs great with HighSpeed Internet.
$10 is a basic account, and that might be less than what you want. You can only have one movie at a time out, so yea, its only one movie every couple of days.
But, its unlimited streaming, so you can watch all sorts of TV, nothing real recent though, and lots of movies, but NO streaming for recent in high demand movies and NO streaming for adult, R/NC-17/Nudity, etc... You can stream some R rated horror, I guess if there is no nudity.