Anger Management

[spooked]

and this is what i got from my isp:

Dear Member

We are writing on behalf of America Online, Inc., the provider of the AOL service to subscribers in the UK. America Online, Inc. has received a complaint from Universal Studios, Inc. that your account was used to conduct the peer-to-peer exchange of copyrighted movie files owned by its members at the following date and time without permission from the copyright owners:

01/04/2003 13:59 EST

Such alleged activity violates AOL's Conditions of Service (COS) available at Keyword: RULES. Please refrain from using your AOL account to exchange unauthorised copies of copyrighted materials.

Our COS department has placed a warning on your account as a result of this activity. Repeated violations of COS may result in termination of your account.

If the alleged activity was not conducted by yourself or a member of your family, but believe an unauthorised individual was using your AOL account at the dates and times identified above, please call us on 0800 376 7444 immediately so that we can take appropriate action to protect your account from future misuse.

Thank you for your cooperation.

If you have any further questions please email the screen name COSMonitor as this screen name cannot accept replies.

Regards,
AOL UK Conditions of Service Department.



Its realy spooked me...no need to say I've stopped everything. Can anyone
tell me how i can hide? i had Norton Profecional on and this privacy on...Its all
heating up... and every day i fear a knock on my door...

[clocker]

Originally posted by spooked@24 April 2003 - 18:20




Its realy spooked me...no need to say I've stopped everything. Can anyone
tell me how i can hide? i had Norton Profecional on and this privacy on...Its all
heating up... and every day i fear a knock on my door...

I'll refrain from giving you the expected bullshit response " Well, just tell 'em to cram it and switch ISPs".
But...
AOL has sent a number of these letters out recently,and I wonder how far they are really willing to go.
They are losing hundreds of thousands of customers yearly and the billions of dollars that they provide.
Do you really think they want to boot you too?
I know, this is no real comfort at all, but I'd be surprised if they didn't just stop at the nasty letter stage.
And if they don't, well, you can always switch ISPs, dude.

[slick nick]

Want to hide your ip on p2p? Try anonymizer. It claims to do this. Otherwise run peerguardian and use to privacy on to stop your files frpom being viewed. Will fear of a letter stop me from sharing films? Nope. What're they going to do kill me? All they will do is force people to come up with stuff to hide and encrypt their activity. All te threatening letters from isp's wont amount to shit.

[harrycary]

There is no way possible to hide your IP address from your ISP. They monitor and log how often/long you are online. Anything you do must go through their servers first. Using a proxy server will do no good.

Use a good firewall. Block the IPs of those looking for us(search the forums for IP lists). Stop sharing that particular movie. Don't share everything, all of the time. Mix it up if you have alot of files. Burn your movies to CD.

Alot of it is scare tactics and ISPs like AOL & MSN need your business. Afterall they both are already losing customers/business & their stock prices are going down. Check the business pages once in awhile and keep up on those things. It's a wise thing to do.

Finally, fuck you RIAA and the horse you rode in on. I'm just sharing my files. I am not making any money from them. Tell your clients to release better quality movies and music and I'll gladly pay!

phew! sorry everyone about the mini-rant there!

[Z]

stg1123 - where do you live?

[TRshady]

At the moment there are a large number of fakes emails like this going round, I got one about two months ago claiming my pc was going to get convisgated, I found out afterwards another person I know got exactly the same letter when he dont even have a home pc.

[imported_stg1123]

Z,
I actually live in Israel.
And it may surprise you to know that with regards to the internet over here things are very liberal and open. Our ISP would never have done any thing about this kind of problem if they hadn't received the letter from the film company. You know I get unlimited Broadband (1.5MB) for about $80 a month which is quite cheap considering i could dl as many gigs a day as i want

[Unafraid Cheese]

For me to make any comment about this would be stupid of me but, I feel that i should point out just one thing.

GET OUT MORE U SADOS

phew I feel so much better now

Unafraidcheese

[dave]

Originally posted by harrycary@25 April 2003 - 05:01
There is no way possible to hide your IP address from your ISP. They monitor and log how often/long you are online. Anything you do must go through their servers first. Using a proxy server will do no good.

That's not what I was trying to say. You encrypt the records to stop your ISP from reading them. You use a proxy to hide your IP from the person downloading/uploading.

[Ma5t3rM1nD]

Well if I received a message like that from mah ISP I would totally drop my nuts and run into another country and hide for the next few years . But anyway when you get one of those letters it's always just a warning the frist time. If your caught doing it again then chance's are you will just be booted off your ISP. For anyone worried that this could be the end of p2p well I'm telling you right now don't be worried. Legal action is only taken in serve case's when "pirates" are caught selling these things and making huge profit from selling it that's like thousands of dollars not a measly $5 from a friend. "Pirates" sell these things in Markets will the fake packets to match. I ain't 100% on what happens when you are caught illegally sharing copyrighted material on file sharing programs but downloading the files you can never get in trouble though. Because they can never prove that the file you were downloading was the actual file in question. You could just make up it was a totally different renamed fake file with the same length in bytes B) . It doesn't even matter if they have screenshots of you downloading it you still have a excuse. Also guess what illegal copyrighted files never orginate from p2p. Downloading of these files has been going on for years before p2p warez,mIRC,ftp etc . . . Have been around for years and still are even with many many threats of these types of things been shut down look at were we are now it is more popular than ever. So what I am trying to save downloading of copyrighted material will be around forever with or without file sharing part of it. Now what the fuck am I going on about this was a totally different subject then to what I typed