I've pirated tons of stuff for the last ten years and I've never heard anything of it. When I lived with my parents they just turned a blind eye and enjoyed the free stuff.
Anyone got in trouble for piracy?
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About 5 years ago, my ISP (which has since went through many name changes) sent an e-mail stating that we were hitting a high-water mark (to use their words) on the bandwidth.
We got that once.....well, yeah, we had a P2P program going 24/7 for about 3 weeks at that time, so.....
But we've never received any more such EM's since, and I've DL'd lots of stuff.
We got that once.....well, yeah, we had a P2P program going 24/7 for about 3 weeks at that time, so.....
But we've never received any more such EM's since, and I've DL'd lots of stuff.
i've gotten four letters from Comcast saying copyright holders had contacted them about such and such movie/tv show i had downloaded, at least one of which was from a private tracker. since i stopped using torrents a year ago, i've not had any more letters. of course, they could just be building a case agianst me.
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really, ROMs are no problem if you use the right source. Comcast hasn't banned me for bandwith, I don't know why they would. All because I download more shit than you could think of, you would think they would contact me. Ah well, I'm having fun, right?
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The copyright holders of Casino Royale contacted my ISP to warn me about downloading that movie via bittorrent. That didn't stop me from downloading movies though.
Quick question, they were able to track down the E-mail you regularly use right? Like your hotmails and stuff? Just wondering 'cause I lost my E-mail from my internet host long ago so if I ever get any E-mails in that account, I'm pretty much screwed.
So, back on to topic, this was way back then when Napster was free. My friend's internet company actually called her instead of E-mailing her. They told her to stop downloading because what she is doing is considered illegal. She got scared and never downloaded music again for another 3 years. But she's okay with it now.
So, back on to topic, this was way back then when Napster was free. My friend's internet company actually called her instead of E-mailing her. They told her to stop downloading because what she is doing is considered illegal. She got scared and never downloaded music again for another 3 years. But she's okay with it now.
I don't think this theory holds any water. True, technology-wise, USA is ahead of rest of the world in many, many ways, except for telecommunications. Especially Scandinavian countries have quite high bandwidth, but their users also seem to get 'warnings'. On the other side, people in Eastern Europe and Asia rarely ever seem to receive any warnings at all.It seems to me that the US has the most relaxed policies when it comes to illegal software downloads...I wonder why...
Not really, it's just that US ISPs tend to have better bandwidth than a lot of other countries so people get letters about using too much bandwidth less often...
P.S.: My English grammar sucks, sorry.
I think it's ironic how some game collectors act as if they have a stick in their ass when they know you download games (like my friend) when I later browse through his 30gb+ music foldier. Downloading music and games is basicaly doing the same thing although they act as if they're so much better
Huh over the last 6/7 years I've been with two different ISP's and they've never contacted me for pirating..
Mr Cow's been contacted for some psp game though hasn't he? Was on tempcast.
Mr Cow's been contacted for some psp game though hasn't he? Was on tempcast.
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I got a letter from my isp for downloading a Dora gba game for my little girl off bittorrent. I just started using newsgroups and irc again and no more problems
I'm starting to realize how nice it is that our provider was asked the names of people downloading illegally and they didn't want to share.
Never ever received any calls or emails.
But then again, how much can you download with a 15Gb limit, right?
(We don't even have to THINK about sharing and uploading)
Never ever received any calls or emails.
But then again, how much can you download with a 15Gb limit, right?
(We don't even have to THINK about sharing and uploading)
Got told of for hacking into my mums school wifi and using it to download anime. And then using my mums laptop to download music and tv series with usenet.
And yet we're the people with the ESA and the RIAA and the MPAA and the CIA and the DRM. Well, maybe not so much on the last one.It seems to me that the US has the most relaxed policies when it comes to illegal software downloads...I wonder why...
I haven't gotten any warnings, but there was a big RIAA lawsuit against at least seven people from my school about downloading music. I try to be careful, but if anything I probably have more games than music at least twice over. Oops.
Weapon XXX got his house raided by the fucking feds (there was a topic on it).
He never said it was about piracy, though.
that's because it wasn't about piracy.
QUOTE(nintendofreak @ Dec 23 2007, 01:32 AM)It seems to me that the US has the most relaxed policies when it comes to illegal software downloads...I wonder why...
that's because the USA is a free country, not a government run prison like other countries. Plus they don't have time, room, or money for this stuff and it is too widespread.
Also I've run into situations before, some I'll just not mention because they were too weird.
Funny thing, my friend wanted the Comanche Addon pack and it was christmas break so he asked if he could meet up with me at EB in the mall and get it from me there. Basically after we stepped out of EB, I gave him the floppies. My god that was such an awesome game too.
Anyway, back on topic
My ISP took my connection offline for about a week because I downloaded over 300 gigs under their 'ulimited internet' bs plan. So they haven't done that again since. I told the guy at security 'what, I thought I downloaded over 400 gigs'. Arrrrr
Anyway that's about all. I read about The Ghetto bust in BBS days, I've been on there before and heard about SNES/N64 busts on irc but never saw any of it. It's nonsense to worry about it anyway.
Only letter I've ever received was when I was on AOL. They changed over from time warner to the carphone warehouse. They introduced a FUP and I got a letter for downloading too much. Never had a problem with the 7 years I'd been with them. After my contract ran out, I switched to virgin media. If you keep away from doing silly things like using bittorrent, downloading from school/work, downloading off websites or selling pirated stuff. I stick to usenet these days. Its pretty difficult to get caught. The only way your 100% safe is not to pirate at all.
A few years ago one of my friends received a letter from their ISP saying that some people had been in touch because he was caught downloading Star Trek: Nemesis and that he had to stop downloading movies. He was more pissed off that he had been caught downloading a crap movie than that he had been caught
Anyway, he changed his ISP, started using Peerguardian and all was well.
Anyway, he changed his ISP, started using Peerguardian and all was well.
I don't think ISP's in Australia really care about what they're customers are downloading. As long as its not child porn.
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