The New Scientist reports that "anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or eBooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within three hours of doing so. They successfully pressured the Department of Justice to halt Megaupload and managed to prod the Ukrainian government into shutting down Demonoid , the popular private tracker. The next step seems to be bring Internet service providers like Comcast and Time Warner into the act.
Someone breaking copyright laws by regularly downloading movies is using more bandwidth than the next-door neighbor who's just streaming funny videos on YouTube. At that point, third-party monitors might take a closer look into what someone is doing online. Lifehacker reports that perhaps the most common way for ISPs to fight BitTorrenting is to "throttle" a user's Internet connection, slowing it down or even cutting the connection off.
The practice is most prevalent in Canada, where it's had little effect. ISPs are also known to have fielded requests from copyright enforcers who pressure them to give up an Internet user's contact information, most often to send the offender a warning letter or a subpoena.
I recently past 3 weeks began downloading movies off of torrent sites. As soon as the file was completed downloading I stopped it from seeding. After downloading about 80 movies I started receiving emails from my ISP saying that they were contacted by the movie distributors ie.
Sony, Universal, etc. Each email listed the title of the movie in question and demanded that I remove the files and stop downloading or I will be disconnected. I have stopped downloading and removed the PSP sharing software Vuze from my computer but can they my ISP or the movie distributor see if I have actually deleted the movies off of my computer or personal shared network media drive?
I understand how the ISP sees what I am doing but how did the movie distributor know I downloaded one of their movies? Do they upload the torrent themselves and watch to see who downloads it? There are a lot of activities that use a lot of bandwidth, are all of them going to be disallowed?
If so, I might as well kill myself now. Afterall, they are almost up my butt. Im very sorry for posting here but i am completely out of ideas!! I have a question, is it legal for a comcast internet tech to tell me i have to install something on my computer that in turn erased all my bookmarked pages that i use for reference for work? Well, as soon as it was finished installing I imediatly opened google crome to start my work writing ebooks on political topics.
To my dismay, ALL of my reference matirial I had spent months looking for and bookmarking was gone!! No bookmarks!! I called the service center, they sent out a tech guy to my place again. He told me that he was not sure why they make people install this software because people are unhappy about it usually. He also told me that other people have had the same problem before and that there is nothing they can do about it.
This is unacceptable to me!! It has ruined my focus and direction associated with my writing as I now have absolutely no references!! Please someone tell me this is illegal so i can put a stop to this kind of guided misfortune!!
Thank you! Just wanted to thank you for this simple, clear and concise post on downloading! It really helped me to understand this topic. I really appreciate it! I became instantly addicted with torrent downloading when i first found BitLord. I constantly downloaded discographies and many movies and games. With all of this foolish downloading came the most unexpected consequence: a copyright notice. When you download via a torrent, your IP number appears in a list of uploaders and downloaders.
This list shows up in the torrent program of everyone sharing the files with that torrent. The owner of the copyright or a proxy just has to download that torrent to see the IP numbers of all the people sharing that file. They can determine which ISP you are using to share the file. They then send those IP numbers to their lawyers who get a court order to get the ISP to tell them who is downloading that file using that IP number. Quite possibly, yes.
On charter or any other ISP. Illegal is illegal, regardless of whether or not you get caught. Thank you for writing a tech blog that filled in some blanks re: why my ISP has a hard-on for uTorrent and NOT being completely full of s! Our proudest moment was watching Star Wars Episode I a few weeks before it was in the theaters. So what if the movie sucked? It saved everyone 10 bucks and it proved that if we wanted something, we could get it.
And they did. If machines could get purple hearts, that box has a couple and is quite sick with adware as I write. I thought the p2p nature of file sharing would obfuscate the origins and destination of each file. I further thought the hashing would make identification of the filename or its contents, source, destination, etc too difficult to crack for an interested 3rd party to look any further into.
Again…great blog — will add it to my shortlist of "Blogs that don't suck ," to be published around yrs end. Still the popup??? I think you're above that. Also — consider mentioning that you "consulted for" Microsoft. Do you really want tech readers, especially software engineers to know that you were on the payroll? The popup timing was coincidental. Should also show up only once every 6 months unless you clear cookies.
It was a wonderful experience. Do you think that could be triggering it? Thanks again! Sky my ISP has given my ip information to an internet troll I am now waiting on a letter from them demanding money is this legal. Hi Leo if you get warning from your isp about downloading illegal content and you stop downloading it for a while how can you tell them to remove the warning stars that you get from them. They should eventually go away.
If not, your only option would be to contact your ISP directly by phone or email. I am working on a project and I would like to know if it is possible for ISPs to track only downloads made on their network.
If that is possible which applications can be used to achieve this. For months now I have stopped using uTorrent. And have done a factory reset on my pc. And if so, how do I get it all to stop? Run up-to-date scans.
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