Accused of Infringement

[mackkoo]

Hi,

I received an email from my ISP that read-

"-Notice of Claim of Copyright Infringement-

Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber:

Comcast has received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent,

reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made on or

over Comcast's High-Speed Internet service (the 'Service'). The copyright owner

has identified the Internet Protocol ('IP') address associated with your Service

account at the time as the source of the infringing works. The works identified by

the copyright owner in its notification are listed below. Comcast reminds you that

use of the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner that constitutes an

infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use

Policy and may result in the suspension or termination of your Service account."

This was received about 6 weeks ago. Nothing has come of it since. Do I need to

worry about anything with this? I torrent very little, but I'll be damn if I didn't get

caught. I run a wifi setup and I don't have its security set very high. Heck I might

not have even been the one torrenting at the time they allege. How do they catch

you and can it be prevented?

kinda worried

[DreadWingKnight]

http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/

Discussed to death already.

[mackkoo]

Thanks DWK. I now have a much better understanding of the issues, and feel

that I am on safer footing, as I have just installed PeerBlock. I realize that PB

is not the complete answer, but it may be a beginning to part of an answer, of

how to increase our p2p privacy. Signed,

do la do la do, mackkoo

[DreadWingKnight]

Hardly. Peerblock is actually more likely to funnel you into the organizations that are monitoring than it is to hide you from them.

[mackkoo]

Could you be more specific, or point me to more info, about how

Peerblock is not only useless, but actually worse than useless.

I'm fairly new to p2p file sharing, and appreciate people clueing

me in when I have misunderstandings and misconceptions about

torrenting/sharing, etc. Is there anything I can do(other than not

fileshare) to lessen my chance of receiving another infringement

notice? I'm aware of the paid services like BTGuard, but at this

time I want to use free methods of protection, if there are any.

mackkoo

[DreadWingKnight]

http://torrentfreak.com/study-reveals-reckless-anti-piracy-antics-080605/

Still true, even 4 years later.

[ktetch]

Thanks DWK. I now have a much better understanding of the issues, and feel

that I am on safer footing, as I have just installed PeerBlock. I realize that PB

is not the complete answer, but it may be a beginning to part of an answer, of

how to increase our p2p privacy. Signed,

do la do la do, mackkoo

You've got the list, Do you think other people might also get the list? Like, say, the people you think you're blocking? If it's your job to monitor torrents, don't you think you're going to keep an eye on that list, and make sure the IP you're using is not one on that list? When Slyck did a test of the 'antip2p list' against the ONLY ever released list of IP's used for this sort of work, it found that despite blocking 30%+ of the net, it had a 3% hitrate. Block random IPs, you'll do better.

*strike 1*

OR you could use the list, and use it to identify who is using such lists. Use of such lists is circumstantial evidence, but it leads to more on discovery (guess who spent hours yesterday going over evidence in these kinds of cases)

*STRIKE 2*

FINALLY, the easiest and best method of all, is to have such companies run the lists themselves. I've been trying to find out who runs those lists for years. I've run into a deadend with an officer shared with a lawyer in the UK town of Bournemouth. We're talking high-end corporate hiding. Everyday coders can't easily do that, major corps CAN. So, final question, who says that 'protection' you're using, isn't coming from the very people you're trying to protect against?

*STRIKE 3 - OUT*

[ILoveUtorrent11]

Hello,

When downloading a movie,file or anything,

It displays your IP address.

A DMCA agent may monitor certain high seeded material, for example a movie lets say "cars 2"

When you download the movie, it displays whos downloading the movie and there ip address, the DMCA Agent sees this, gets the ip address sends a DMCA Notice to your ISP and thats what happens.

After 3 strikes i think your ISP has to disable your internet for 1month or ban you from there service,

Which lol if this continues all ISP's will be out of business and broke :lol:

[ktetch]

Hello,

When downloading a movie,file or anything,

It displays your IP address.

A DMCA agent may monitor certain high seeded material, for example a movie lets say "cars 2"

When you download the movie, it displays whos downloading the movie and there ip address, the DMCA Agent sees this, gets the ip address sends a DMCA Notice to your ISP and thats what happens.

After 3 strikes i think your ISP has to disable your internet for 1month or ban you from there service,

Which lol if this continues all ISP's will be out of business and broke :lol:

At the most basic level, most of what you said is generally correct.

As far as specifics go, you're off by quite a bit.

[ILoveUtorrent11]

@ktetch

Why don't you tell us... since i went in to the quite "basic" detail, and your saying i'm off quite a bit, Why don't you tell us the "advanced" specific details.