Anyone got in trouble for piracy?

[nintendofreak]

It seems to me that the US has the most relaxed policies when it comes to illegal software downloads...

I wonder why...

 

[Jaejae]

I have never had anything from my ISP regarding downloading, apart frm when I was with my old IPS, we were on an unlimited bandwidth plan, and I downloaded like 200GB one month, and they said if I kept doing it, they would throttle our bandwidth.

 

[El-ahrairah]

I never really got in trouble with the law, but when I was in high school I used to steal cable. Literally steal it. I would sneak in apartment complexes and yank the covering off the little green cable box in the backyard and snip the descrambling tubes and run like hell.

When my mother found out she started ranting and raving about how I shouldn't take them. Once I screwed a few tubes into the back of the TV and she instantly had free Cinemax, Showtime and Disney, she never mentioned it again.

I made a killing selling those things at school, too.

 

[King Zargo]

First time in my life I read about ISP sending letters to customers. Almost every single person I know is pirating movie's, music or software. Nobody has ever gotten into trouble. My school even demands that every single student has Microsoft Office installed on his or her own personal computer.

Reading this makes me kind of paranoid. Maybe some day the cops will grab me and all my friends. Do Dutch users receive letters from ISP?

 

[Hiratai]

I got threaten by Indians to take away my internet service for downloading like...12 movies in a day.

Next day, they made a casino with the same name as my ISP. No lie.

But it is a fib.

 

[.TakaM]

nah closest I've got is when I was with one of my friends at EBgames
and he'd been looking for some monkey ball game for xbox, he finally found it at that store, second hand for $90
I think it's a first gen xbox game, so it was like 3-4 years old, second hand also.
and I was like fuck that man, I'll just download it at home
and the clerk was like " but tahts illegol"

that fuckin pricetag should be illegal

 

[jaxxster]

never here and it really doesnt bother me, i doubt the police or major companies here are going to bother filing a lawsuit for downloading a few games and movies and albums.

 

[Bourbanog]

nah closest I've got is when I was with one of my friends at EBgames
and he'd been looking for some monkey ball game for xbox, he finally found it at that store, second hand for $90
I think it's a first gen xbox game, so it was like 3-4 years old, second hand also.
and I was like fuck that man, I'll just download it at home
and the clerk was like " but tahts illegol"

that fuckin pricetag should be illegal

Hahaha, I lol'd.


Me, I've never gotten into trouble for piracy. Evar.

 

[MaHe]

Nope, never. European Union even decriminalized piracy for personal use.

 

[JPH]

Weapon XXX got his house raided by the fucking feds (there was a topic on it).

 

[MaHe]

Weapon XXX got his house raided by the fucking feds (there was a topic on it).

He never said it was about piracy, though.

 

[Mewgia]

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...

 

[kellyan95]

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...

I think you have it backwards

 

[User200]

i got one ridicules letters then they capped me. its really easy to get out of. I fained ignorance and blamed it on my nephew i don't have. luck for me the guy who answered the phone also had kids and went through the same shit i been through


actually it was 2 letters now that i recall correctly. One from Fox and the other from the creators of Doom 3

 

[Cermage]

Funniest Situation: Torrenting FEAR at school

anyway, i dl'ed a few games and my ISP capped without warning.

 

[User200]

Funniest Situation: Torrenting FEAR at school

anyway, i dl'ed a few games and my ISP capped without warning.

Don't they usually cap you for uploading too much? I never had a problem with the downloading part.. minus the 2 honey pot stings which were basically, if you download our shit again we "might" do something about it.

 

[mkoo]

When my online friend from Canada downloaded a whole PC game from torrent, The ESA sent a warning email to his ISP and then his ISP emailed him and warned about it. He 's been looking for the proxiesÂ

Isn't it illegal to ISP monitor your net usage?

As for me my favourite game shop (pirated of course) got raided. 7000 cds/dvds was destroyed.

 

[Cermage]

Don't they usually cap you for uploading too much? I never had a problem with the downloading part.. minus the 2 honey pot stings which were basically, if you download our shit again we "might" do something about it.

Here in ausland we have a thing called download limits ==" we download over our limit = instant capping, unless you find the loophole and continue downloading even after you went past your limit without stopping, it maintains usual speed.

 

[BannedEpisode]

You guys just need to get Qwest. They honestly dont give a shit.

 

[Waddle Dee]

Nothing happens to me, and I pirate as many DS games as possible XD Well, my parents do't know it's illegal, they know I can download games off the web and play them on my DS, but they must think it's like homebrew or something. Also, no ISP problems here.

If my ISP is capped, I'm screwed. My mom is a travel agaent and works from the comp. Damn government.