Received a copyright infringement notice :-/

Just noticed an email from my ISP from about 2 months ago saying a copyright owner has claimed my internet service was used to share copyrighted content. They did not say they were gonna do anything about it like cancel my service (did not threaten to do anything when it happens again either), and did not share my name with the "copyright owner".

This has happened before a few years ago...guess I need to go into hiding. Or at least set up my computer to block any and all IP addresses from connecting if they're in a blacklist.

It was a Rick Ross album i've been seeding...

 

Use an proxy next time

 

it's not downloading it that gets you caught, it's seeding, when people download the file from you. Proxies in general slow down your connection (it's very hard to find a high anonymous proxy that you can get 50 Mbps thru it), so they are mainly used when it's a situation that if you didn't use a proxy you would go to the penitentiary .

you may say "then stop seeding", well isn't that exactly what they want to happen? if everyone stopped seeding torrents then the network wouldn't work.

There are numerous programs available, I remember peerguardian, it blocks any blacklisted IP addresses from conncecting...it just nothing has happened in so long that I stopped being "paranoid" about it....

 

Rick Ross...

Serves you right listening to such bad hip-hop.

Everything about Rick Ross and his image is fake.

But I digress.

 

I had to google the guy, thought it was a gorilla at first.

 

i'm kind of relieved. i had him confused with rick astley.

 

It's all about VPN. I'm in canada right now

 

I'm just the asshole that doesn't seed.

 

Torrents kind of suck. I prefer simply downloading.

 

h8 u

 

Rick Ross is decent, I've always liked him despite what he represents, who he 'brings up' and how his background is supposedly contrary to his persona (which I find to be a rather unfair and simple-minded accusation, considering that he was not a LEO but rather a simple CO, and often times CO's are equally as criminal as the criminals they are paid to keep in line). I'm somebody who grew up surrounded by hip-hop in a multiracial community drenched in poverty (back when neighbors actually 'lived' in places and appreciated the reality of 'the city', before 'the metropolis' moved in via gentrification and established an 'environment' for the petty middle class) and although I don't identify with the culture (mainly because it has turned into a foolish caricature which has betrayed it's roots in favor of the socially-conditioned 'supra-individualist' mentality) I do love the form and have long embraced much of what it used to portray as a part of my background. Rick Ross is not as charismatic and lyrically dominant / musically educated as somebody like Biggie, nor as enlightened and 'conscious' as the old school greats like Public Enemy and KRS-One, all of whom paid homage to the instrumental, musical roots of the form as brought out by the likes of Grandmaster Flash and other dj's, dub plates and 'ridim' soundclashes from the dub reggae scene, but Ross does have a way with words and can say more in a single sentence than most can get across in an entire song. He is flashy and promotes the vacuous exploitation of his own culture with his 'hits' that get played every 3 songs on rap radio stations, but despite this I can't help but like him and his music.

 

Damn...they should be paying you for that shit...

 

Why not just use private trackers?

 

hahaha :smilielol5:

 

I'm a leecher

 

Same here, but I was kinda let down

 

We got our internet blocked a few years ago cuz our roommate at the time downloaded The Sims 3 and forgot to turn off uploads so EA caught us. All we had to do was promise we deleted the files from our computer and turn off seeding. Had we not done that, we would've had our internet shut down completely. And if that had happened, we would have been screwed because they are one of two internet services out here and we've already burned bridges with the other one.