I'm goin to the mattresses

[GonzoStyle]

I just got this email from optimum online:

We are writing as a courtesy to let you know that we have received
notification from one or more owners of copyrights claiming that their
work has been transmitted over the Internet from your account without
their permission. Copyright owners may include motion picture studios,
the recording industry or others who produce or distribute legally
protected material. (Please see enclosed notice(s)). We are concerned
that either you or a person with access to your account may be unknowingly
participating in certain file sharing or server-related activities that
led to this complaint.

As you may recall, the Optimum Online Terms of Service posted at
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.optonline.net">http://www.optonline.net</a><!-- w --> require compliance with all applicable laws and
specifically prohibits the use of the Optimum Online system for copyright
infringement.

We consider you a valued customer, so we wanted to let you know that if
the copyright holder pursues this claim, or if there are additional
claims, it could lead to legal action against you. We may be required by
law to release private information about you and to suspend, or even
terminate, your service. We want to help you prevent this from happening.

In order to assist you in your future use of our service, we encourage you
to visit <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.optonline.net/copyright">http://www.optonline.net/copyright</a><!-- w --> for tips and guidelines that we hope
will give you all the information you need to avoid further action on this
matter or on other matters.

We regret having to send notices like this, and we do not wish to alarm
you unnecessarily, but we have a responsibility to advise you of any
notices concerning your account.

If you have any questions about our Optimum Online policies, please feel
free to contact us at the Customer Service Center, 516-803-9311. We
appreciate your business, and look forward to providing you with
excellence in broadband service for many years to come.


Regards,
Raymond J. Connolly
Registered Copyright Agent
Cablevision Systems Corporation

Apparently in the attachement it was for of all crappy movies, The Omen. I got it off Isohunt a couple days ago.

Anyone else get one of these?

[Keyser Soze]

nope, i watch movies in theaters like a normal human being.

[Charles Manson]

not yet

[Black Lazerus]

Registered Copyright Agent




Notice for Claims of Copyright Infringement

We have adopted the following requirements for submitting claims of copyright infringement:

All written notices of alleged copyright infringement must be sent to our Registered Copyright Agent and, if applicable, must meet the then current statutory requirements imposed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Direct the written notice to:

CSC Holdings
1111 Stewart Avenue
Bethpage, NY 11714-3581
Raymond J. Connolly
Registered Copyright Agent
Phone: 516-803-2500
Fax: 516-803-2502
E-mail: <!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">mailto:[email protected]</a><!-- e -->

Upon receipt of a notice meeting DMCA requirements, we will take such action as we deem appropriate under the DMCA. This may include removing or disabling access to material claimed to be infringing. In addition, please note that it is our policy to comply with the terms of the DMCA, which may include terminating the account of any user found to have repeatedly used the Optimum Online system to engage in copyright infringement upon actual evidence of such infringement or upon injunction from a court of law, pursuant to the DMCA.

If you are a subscriber to our service and believe in good faith that someone has wrongfully filed a notice of copyright infringement against you, the DMCA may permit you under certain circumstances to send us a counter-notice. See 17 U.S.C. § 512 for counter-notice requirements.

[Goatweed]

I have never gotten one of those letters, I dont think Time Warner gives much of a shit.

Now that I said that, I'm sure I'll have a little something waiting for me in my inbox when I get home.

[HedCold]

i think verizon was one of the first that had to send them out for the riaa when it started, but i never got one.

also, i'm guessing they sent this to your optimum online email? i hardly ever check the verizon email for the account

[GonzoStyle]

i think verizon was one of the first that had to send them out for the riaa when it started, but i never got one.

also, i'm guessing they sent this to your optimum online email? i hardly ever check the verizon email for the account

Yeah they sent it to my OOL email.

I'm trying to figure out how to avoid it, besides becoming human like keyser.

I'd assume maybe using a different tracker, this one was from the demonoid tracker. I dunno if isohunt has anything to do with it. But I have downloaded several movies using demonoids tracker. Also I assume they track most of the newer movies, so maybe lay off a few weeks from when its released. You never know when they may add your name to a legal action, not something i'd wanna risk.

[HedCold]

do you have encryption turned on in the bittorrent client? i'm not sure how much that helps, but it doesn't hurt except for maybe slightly slower downloads

i really have no idea how it works, but i would think if the mpaa is part of the torrent and have encryption on they'll be able to see what you're doing, but your cable company would only see packets that look like static and can be anything, so they wouldn't be able to confirm anything

[Goatweed]

just lay low for a few weeks, nothing to worry about.

[Keyser Soze]

dorks!
































anyone got an inconvienient truth? im not paying 10 bucks to see that shit.

[HedCold]

BitTorrent traffic makes up a large portion of total internet traffic. Some ISPs deal with it by increasing their capacity. Other ISPs use specialised hardware to throttle, or slow down BitTorrent traffic. Encryption makes BitTorrent traffic harder to detect and therefore harder to throttle. It is not designed to provide anonymity.

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[Goatweed]

I think PeerGuardian was designed to help encrypt traffic, Kevin Rose used to shill that a lot but I never bothered to play with it.

Also Gonzo, I'm not sure if you changed any of the torrent settings but usually torrents use default ports 6881 thru 6999. If you change them, then anyone scanning IPs for activity on those ports obviously wont see you. If you dont know what Im talking about, you can google or I can work up a lengthy PM.

I changed mine to way up in the 11000 range, but even before I did I never heard a peep from Time Warner.

[HedCold]

i think peer guardian just blocks known ips that are known to be bad

[HedCold]

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.afterdawn.com/software/p2p_software/p2p_tools/peerguardian.cfm">http://www.afterdawn.com/software/p2p_s ... ardian.cfm</a><!-- m -->

PeerGuardian is a tiny IP blocker program especially designed for P2P software users, but also to anyone who is concerned about the investigations that corporations and authorities perform on the internet. PeerGurdian blocks connections for the configured IP ranges and logs the blocked connections. It uses blocklists for the blocking, but IP ranges can also be configured manually. Pre-cofigured for blocking are RIAA, MPAA and many others.

[GonzoStyle]

I use Utorrent, I have it set to automatically pick a new port every time the program loads, It varies from port 20000 to port 50000.

I dunno about the encryption, I have the protocal encryption set to "enabled".

[GonzoStyle]

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.afterdawn.com/software/p2p_software/p2p_tools/peerguardian.cfm">http://www.afterdawn.com/software/p2p_s ... ardian.cfm</a><!-- m -->

PeerGuardian is a tiny IP blocker program especially designed for P2P software users, but also to anyone who is concerned about the investigations that corporations and authorities perform on the internet. PeerGurdian blocks connections for the configured IP ranges and logs the blocked connections. It uses blocklists for the blocking, but IP ranges can also be configured manually. Pre-cofigured for blocking are RIAA, MPAA and many others.

so your saying I should use it?

[Goatweed]

it couldnt hurt - Ive never used it but Kevin Rose is cool, he knows his shit.

[Mad]

You damn pirates, AHRRRR.

[GonzoStyle]

it couldnt hurt - Ive never used it but Kevin Rose is cool, he knows his shit.

oh well, cant hurt I guess.

[Goatweed]

that's what I said.