Comcast copywrite infringement emails

[Sirban]

Anyone with Comcast or AT&T start to get those emails? You get them if you download a torrent. They threaten to take your internets after a certain amount of violations. How would you get around it? Word on the street you can get a VPN service, but im not sure how those work either. Halp

[QuantumZebra]

Peerblock is love, Peerblock is life

[Madbad]

It's pretty easy to not get those letters. That being said I have received a few myself, always for some shit my Ex-GF downloaded. Some people say Peer-Block helps, I'm not so sure. A VPN would certainly help, but those cost money. I think I got about five of those E-mails, never got shut off, and they never specified how many more chances I would get, LOL!

[Madbad]

This also might help:

http://i.imgur.com/gcwlXdS.jpg

[Cecily]

Anyone with Comcast or AT&T start to get those emails? You get them if you download a torrent. They threaten to take your internets after a certain amount of violations. How would you get around it? Word on the street you can get a VPN service, but im not sure how those work either. Halp

Have you tried paying for your software?

[Nocsucow]

Have you tried paying for your software?

[Madbad]

Funny enough I mostly steal software and never get them, only ever saw the notices for Ex-GF downloading the newest movies and episodes from the largest swarms (and one pornographic indiscretion).

[Lev_Mer]

it depends on what they are obligated to do now... it used to be they became obligated (why i dont know, a law? policy?) to inform you if THEY received an infringement notice from someone that your ip downloaded something... pretty vague, and thats why you dont need to really worry unless ur at a college network

better than the tactics predatory firms would use to extort money by directly contacting the IP holder (by pretending to have authority to get your info from the cable company).

these firms would pay people to host real torrents then try to sue people for downloading... i got a letter for downloading that hustler's version of james camerons avatar...i threw the letter in the trash with my kleenex

[Madbad]

Trident MediaGuard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_Media_Guard)

[Madbad]

Supposedly Peer-block's IP ban list encompasses these guys' IP address, I can't imagine this is good enough though.

[Thulack]

Use peerblock myself. Never any issues and i dont pay for shit.

[bullproofmonk]

I used to download all kinds of crap, but with the advent of Vudu, Netflix, Hulu, and HBOGO, etc I found it's just less hassle to cough up the dough if I want to watch something.

If I don't want to pay 20 bucks to see it, I probably didn't really want to watch it anyway.

[Tann]

Peerblock doesn't do jack, never has. If a particular download is being tracked they will be able to trace it to you. I had been using it for a while with no issues, then I tried to pick up a Dr. Jones trilogy and boom phone call same day from comcast all whilst using peerblock.

Best def is either stahp DL'ing and pay for the things, or read through the comments and see if other folks were hit with copyright issues, had I read the comments for said Dr. Jones stuff I would've seen the "DO NOT DL, BEING TRACKED, ETC..."

[Madbad]

They don't have the money to monitor all of the swarms, I think the best bet for the smart pirate would be to choose smaller swarms for your downloads. Instead of choosing the new episode of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" with 23000 seeders try the one that has 300.

A second hand tip: sign up for private torrent trackers. I'm sure you can find more info about that else where as I know next to nothing about these.

I watch almost everything that I can't find on Netflix on shady streaming sites, I can't imagine my ISP busting me for that.

[Paleman]

private torrents or newsgroups

[Swish]

PM me if you'd like more info on Madbad's second hand tip, only 3 of you though.

[Dillian]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C3u27GsUXjg/mqdefault.jpg

[Thulack]

its sad that demonoid doesnt have near the torrents it use to have. Was a great place before the long layoff now its just a wasteland of shitty stuff

[Sirban]

game of thrones

[Orruar]

Word on the street you can get a VPN service, but im not sure how those work either.

A VPN service would be guaranteed to solve your problem.

Basically, a VPN service is an app you install on your machine, which directs all of your internet traffic to a proxy server. This proxy server then does all the communications with the outside world for you. So anyone you are connecting to, whether browsing a website or torrenting or Skype'ing, will see your IP as the IP of the proxy server you're connected to. In addition, with a VPN all of your communication with the proxy server is encrypted, so even your ISP has no idea what you're doing on the web. From their point of view, all they ever see is you communicating over with a single server. Of course, going through an encrypted proxy like this will reduce your net speeds, but a good VPN will give you 90%+ of your normal speed.

You'll want to choose the VPN service that suits your needs best, but one of the most popular is PrivateInternetAccess. They keep no log files (so they can't be forced to give away your browsing history), their servers are fast, and are relatively cheap ($40 a year). They also have servers in something like 20 countries, which is pretty cool when you want to dodge a location filter. Even services such as Netflix will have a different set of movies/shows available in different countries. Also, if you do online gaming, you can get improved latency by choosing a server near wherever the game's servers are located. When I was playing Aion, I connected to a proxy in Texas that dropped my 80ms latency to 30ms, which was a huge benefit due to how much that game relied on having good ping.

So anyway, if you can afford $40 a year, a VPN service is a pretty good idea.

[Pokesan]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C3u27GsUXjg/mqdefault.jpg