Got A Call From My Isp Today, About Piracy...

**neevakee** · 05-30-2003, 01:55 AM

I think it is funny i have msn dsl, you would think since it is microsoft I would have heard something by now but no.

**TheFilePirater** · 05-30-2003, 02:19 AM

lol i was downloading some songs and i saw "US Government" on my caller ID, i was so scared
*lucky me they were tryin to recurt my brother

**randm01** · 05-30-2003, 06:49 AM

Originally posted by REALITY+29 May 2003 - 20:39--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (REALITY @ 29 May 2003 - 20:39)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--randm01@29 May 2003 - 05:26
well thats alll ya gunna get cause it came as an email...whats the diff between a piece of paper with it on or to read it on ya screen...im guessing your not a believer...

Who is your ISP?

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iprimus in australia

rang them and gave them a slightly heated discussion on the files in question as to their originality...told them the files were indeed fake files with black screen and no sound so i deleted them and informed them if they want to keep me and many other customers happy they should 1st email us and enquire about the alleged files....he was so nice to me and told me it was fine and he will make a note the files where never on my computer....so they lie to cover their own asses..i guess eventually someones gunna be made an example of....

**!shareitall** · 05-30-2003, 07:07 AM

I just received an email from Comcast a couple of days ago with a reference to a Universal Studio's File that they claimed was downloaded by them from my system.

The information Universal provided was the name of the Movie, Infringement source: FastTrack, file size, my user name@kazza, my ip address, the date and time they downloaded the file, my DNS name and it looks like the hash information for the file also?

says:
***** Begin PGP signature *******
Version 8.0

iqa/aw - etc.

****** End PGP Signature *********

The rest is warning verbage from both the ISP and Universal.

I was not running peerguardian or using the privacy feature.

I am running Win XP Pro with Sysgate Pro.

I can see them getting the user name and the hash, but now I am confused as to what Klite does as far as the IP address protection feature?

Aslo been getting Denial of Service attack message from my firewall since I received the message. I am not sure what this mean?

Anyway that's my experince with this subject. I didn't like it and feel like big brother is watching over my shoulder. I think the Movie Studio's are going piss off enough people that people won't go see a movie put out by a studio that has threatned them. I personally will probably only go and see one of there movies only if I think it's a great film. Whereas before this expericence I usually go to the movies at leat once every 2-3 weeks, sometimes more, sometimes less.

What do you think? I know most of the movies I see that are downloaded I've already paid to see at the theatre already. So all they end up doing, for me anyway is pissing me off and then they complain about sagging sales figures. Maybe part of sagging sales are due to people like me having the same reaction.

**randm01** · 05-30-2003, 07:33 AM

!shareitall...your prolly more right than you realise..

**RealitY** · 05-30-2003, 08:25 AM

I used to go to a movie at times as much as twice a week, bought lots of CD's and DVD,s, after hearing about what they are trying to do with the Verizon case, no more. I find it very offending to attack an individual user under the cloak of the DCMA, so that they can attempt to turn someones life upside down and make an example of them. I praise Verizon for fighting this battle. It has been stated that this could clearly kick back on them. Attacking their own clientel, seems strange, this all leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. I maybe see a movie once a month now, if that, as for the rest I purchace very little anymore, just my statement I guess.

**Texallen** · 05-31-2003, 12:54 PM

Originally posted by REALITY@30 May 2003 - 08:25
I used to go to a movie at times as much as twice a week, bought lots of CD's and DVD,s, after hearing about what they are trying to do with the Verizon case, no more. I find it very offending to attack an individual user under the cloak of the DCMA, so that they can attempt to turn someones life upside down and make an example of them. I praise Verizon for fighting this battle. It has been stated that this could clearly kick back on them. Attacking their own clientel, seems strange, this all leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. I maybe see a movie once a month now, if that, as for the rest I purchace very little anymore, just my statement I guess.

You may have something there. The RIAA and MPAA don't realise they're alienating their customers. If all filesharers picked one day to NOT buy any CDs or go to any movies it could get their attention. With 4 million on Kazaa and all the other P2P users even,even half participation would have to knock a hole in their profits. After all,it is about the bucks.

**Cation84** · 06-01-2003, 10:49 PM

First of all I would like to confirm that there is no way to "hide" your IP address.
Thirdly I would like to give my 2 cents on how I would personally configure my comptuer and my kazaa lite to allow sharing and prevent ANTI-Piracy organizations from finding you unless you download directly from or send directly to them (duh).

First configuration element: Kazaa Lite itself.
Get Kazaa Lite K++ 2.1e Build3.
Most importantly you MUST go into the settings an ENABLE the "Option to prevent people from being able to see a list of all of your shared files." This will prevent people like RIAA and the MPAA from being able to determine that you are in fact sharing any files.
Secondly: A firewall.
I personally use the Kerio Personal Firewall because it is the most configurable windows personal firewall on the market that is free for personal use. I must warn everyone that this firewall does DEMAND that you know what you are doing with TCP/IP networking. It is not some child's firewall like blackice, norton, ZA, sygate, ect... that you just install and assume you are protected. RTFM on kerio, no joke. In this firewall you make the application based firewall rulebase. I personally choose to DENY all incoming to the kazaa lite application from any external IP and port to any local port. I also choose to ALLOW my kazaa lite application to send information form any local port to any IP and any external port. The main reason that I choose to do this is because you would hide your kazaa server on port 1214, you would prevent any queries to your kazaa but you would also still be able to upload. Youall can figure out the rest of the rulebase.
I'm on a university network with admins that actively scan every 30min for every p2p app. I've learned to "get around" (used carelessly) ISP's no matter if they are a college or a true ISP like version.
AIM SN "Cation84". I'm eager to discuss my views.