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I get home the other day to find that all my internet traffic was diverted to a big warning page with a number to call. Insight/Road Runner as you know will first shut off internet service if the bill is late and this is what I thought happened.

 

Turns out the number I called was with "safety and security" for Insight. My IP address had been tagged for sharing copyrighted material by the movie studios. The media in question was the DVD rip of the movie "fighting"

 

I do everything by torrents. I have used bit-torrent, u-torrent, and most recently Vuze which is much faster. My guess is that I had the application up for too long while "sharing" the media I had already downloaded. I usually clear the completed torrents, but forgot to with the new application.

 

I've been downloading off the internet even before Al Gore discovered it, and this was the first time I was ever targeted. Got a slap on the wrist and that was it. Maybe I won’t be so lucky next time.

 

Just a little word of warning...DON'T LEAVE COMPLETED TORRENTS IN YOUR P2P APPLICATION FOR CONTINUOUS SHARING, YOU COULD GET BUSTED TOO :eek:

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I get home the other day to find that all my internet traffic was diverted to a big warning page with a number to call. Insight/Road Runner as you know will first shut off internet service if the bill is late and this is what I thought happened.

 

Turns out the number I called was with "safety and security" for Insight. My IP address had been tagged for sharing copyrighted material by the movie studios. The media in question was the DVD rip of the movie "fighting"

 

I do everything by torrents. I have used bit-torrent, u-torrent, and most recently Vuze which is much faster. My guess is that I had the application up for too long while "sharing" the media I had already downloaded. I usually clear the completed torrents, but forgot to with the new application.

 

I've been downloading off the internet even before Al Gore discovered it, and this was the first time I was ever targeted. Got a slap on the wrist and that was it. Maybe I won’t be so lucky next time.

 

Just a little word of warning...DON'T LEAVE COMPLETED TORRENTS IN YOUR P2P APPLICATION FOR CONTINUOUS SHARING, YOU COULD GET BUSTED TOO :eek:

you are 100% incorrect.

 

if you run p2p and allow anytype of upload you will get busted. insight/rr are not the one flagginjg we get letters from studios and such. they hire compaies to look for stupid people who share files.

 

newsgroups or go home.

 

so eather pony up the 12$ a month and download at Good speeds or prentend like i don't know what im talking about. And next time you don't get flagged for abuse you get a subpeona. Do me a favor and stop p2p.

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sucks. i got busted in college twice. once for music and once for a show....luckily never had any punishment

 

scary shit... basically your fucked if they decide to make an example of you (in college anyway)

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They do it to non college too. you would think with all the harping i've done regarding p2p people would listen. But what do I know...

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downloading is not a problem

 

torrents and other p2p work on the concept that during your download you upload pieces of your file to other people.

 

streaming them from sights like

http://www.ovguide.com/

 

are not going to get your flagged. that being said you have to be careful to not get yourself a trojan as some o th links can be shady

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umm can any one put this in english... wtf are torrents an p2p? ?

 

Torrents are magical elves that will perform ritualistic dances on top of ones PC or MAC, than run to the nearest house using a "Torrent Search" (flashlight with an elf-cutout), and perform the same dance on the requester's PC or MAC, thus pure digital transfer is enabled.

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SSL encryption which prevent a provider "rr" from seeing what your downloading. Since your only downloading from a new provider only they know what articles you have downloaded.

 

The problem with p2p is your basicly standing on top of a large hill with a large bull horn and screaming please bust me asi will prove im breaking the law buy sending you the files!!!!!!

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peer guardian 2 helps

 

It i s not perfect as the companies change there soruce ips to quickly

 

 

 

things you can d

 

TURN OFF ALL SHARING PERIOD .this will make you allot more safe

stop being a tool and using a method of dling things that is so visable.

 

dling off p2p is like walking downtown screaming you want to buy a bag of weed and then purchasiung it an offering to sell a bag from what you got. its stupid plain and simple.

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youcan get any tv show with in 2 hours of it airing 99% of the time. sometimes before they air. I do this using newsgroups + nzb search engine.

 

rapidshare is annoying with the throttled speed.

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sorry i figured i should quote my self .... i download music threw limewire someitmes porn :) is that bad?

 

 

I Download all my music from there and my movies using bitlord but once you download them all mine are saved and never shared..

 

like stated they bust the people who are sharing not downloading 99 percent of the time.. I would not owrry about it as long as you keep the program closed when you are not using it and dont share your files.

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I Download all my music from there and my movies using bitlord but once you download them all mine are saved and never shared..

 

like stated they bust the people who are sharing not downloading 99 percent of the time.. I would not owrry about it as long as you keep the program closed when you are not using it and dont share your files.

 

yea on the old lime wire there was an option to not share them the new one doesnt. but anytime any one trys to download i disconnect them an yea it snever left open

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