Caught using Bittorrent...

[ghostZERO]

Here’s an email i got from my ISP a couple of days ago...luckily i got a warning...but i found it strange they caught me using Bittorrent...hmm

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Dear valued customer:
Please be advised that <ISP> has received notification from The Business
Software Alliance (BSA) alleging that your account stands accused of and
responsible for a copyright violation.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that your account violates its
copyrights as follows:
Site Details:
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Network: BTPeers
IP Address: ...
IP Port: 6881
Protocol: BitTorrent
UserName:

Content being offered:
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.nfo
Filesize: 7k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r00
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r01
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r02
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r03
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
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READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r18
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r19
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.rar
Filesize: 48,828k

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++

...the message goes on to say if i get caught again..then i get cut off from my ISP's services...
the funny thing is...it was RAW data...millions of textfiles that had bullshit text in them....

very strange....

[black_magiic]

join the club I got nailed for a game last christmas and my buddy got nailed for a movie. It happens, where do you live. Im from Canada, I got hit once, didnt stop downloading. Hasnt happened again.

[Cydor]

What ISP are you using dude? cuse it's sounds like Comcast....

[ghostZERO]

Live in US...using PenTeleData/Prolog as an ISP...

[Cydor]

That's just a warning....don't worry....just stay low for while though or change ISP....

Some ISPs like Comcast, will sell you to MPAA.....I got 2 of them notifications from Comcast a year ago....I dumped their ass right way.

[shawners]

Quit using open torrent sites.. Go private sites and join when the doors open or newsgroups, possibly even go on IRC and beg for an invite. =)

[Digital Bliss]

shawners is right www.torrentleech.org is a great private site but its hard to get into for good rasons

[Jitway]

Got caught once 130 page list they had on me...lol.

[earthboundmisfit]

Here’s an email i got from my ISP a couple of days ago...luckily i got a warning...but i found it strange they caught me using Bittorrent...hmm

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dear valued customer:
Please be advised that <ISP> has received notification from The Business
Software Alliance (BSA) alleging that your account stands accused of and
responsible for a copyright violation.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that your account violates its
copyrights as follows:
Site Details:
----------------------------------------------

Network: BTPeers
IP Address: ...
IP Port: 6881
Protocol: BitTorrent
UserName:

Content being offered:
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.nfo
Filesize: 7k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r00
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r01
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r02
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r03
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r04
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r05
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r06
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r07
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r08
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r09
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r10
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r11
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r12
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r13
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r14
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r15
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r16
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r17
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Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r18
Filesize: 48,828k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.r19
Filesize: 2,861k
Filename: [Silver Recrods] Mac OS X Tiger X86
READNFO-XISO.torrenttiger-x86-xiso.rar
Filesize: 48,828k

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++

...the message goes on to say if i get caught again..then i get cut off from my ISP's services...
the funny thing is...it was RAW data...millions of textfiles that had bullshit text in them....

very strange....


To anyone using any typ of file sharing software.....get familiar with Peer Guardian (now in version 2.0) Blocks ANY unauthorized idiots from sniffing whats on your hard drive. I've seen some STRANGE STRANGE folks try to query my computer. Shanghai University (China) and some police dept in Nova Scotia!
I have Time Warner Cable (Waner Bros) and they have never even sniffed in my direction. I use PG WHENEVER I am downloading with Kazaa Lite or Bittorrent. Better safe than sorry. RIAA and MPAA go to hell!!! hee hee hee hee
Misfit

[Digital Bliss]

Nowhere is safe and peer guardian is just a flase sense of protection but hell I use it :P.

[shawners]

Quit using 6881 as default ports.. there using that to check data going in, and also slowing down speeds.. go over 30000 and to 30060. have various open. I have downloaded over a 120 movies, some still out in theaters, 50 xbox titles, 6 different software that is heavily copywrited.. And never got a warning, other then YEARS ago using xolox in which i got introuble with MPAA with a cease and desist letter. I dont use peerguardian either. Few months ago i used newsgroups,but other then that close torrent sites.

[mojo-ris-in]

Umm maybe you should stop downloading ANYTHING that says Mac OS X Tiger. Seems to me this might be one being watched heavily.

Also Peer Guardian is fine for the known addresses. There are many that PG doesn't detect because they haven't been identified yet.

[meyou123]

Quit using open torrent sites.. Go private sites and join when the doors open or newsgroups, possibly even go on IRC and beg for an invite. =)


I hate to be the one to tell you this...but Loki torrents AND Elite Torrents were BOTH private sites! So I don't see how that made them any safer as they got shut down anyway.

[zarquon]

I hate to be the one to tell you this...but Loki torrents AND Elite Torrents were BOTH private sites! So I don't see how that made them any safer as they got shut down anyway.

ya but they had open registration. Every clown could get in. No such thing with likes of filesplit and torrentleech.

[boogiedan]

Count me in!!
Basically i live in the U.K and my BBand compony is NTL..
anyhow's letter said somert like(just threw it! seriously)

Dear ...

we have at NTL a 30Gig D/load policy per month
and mine was 170Gig for July
basically blah blah blah but..
end of letter i remember it saying..
WE WILL B MONITORING YOUR WATEVER THROUGHOUT AUGUST!!
anyhow's a week 2 go in AUG left
DU Meter sez 110Gig(so ive cut down a bit!)
read through post's
is their anybody on zp from U.K n have NTL(any had same letters)

funny thing i remember say 18months or so--mabye less
when kazlite was the bomb
i got a letter by
MediaForce from the usa no bull
anyhow on letter it exactly said
Final Destination2 it was-exact time n date i d/.loaded of kaz!!
this is turning out to be a good thread
different countries/company's
any like me NTL

[DwarfBaby]

Why did you find it strange?

Even BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has warned in the past that using his technology to distribute material illegally is a "dumb idea," because the file-swapping tool is not designed to hide the identity of anyone using it.

[mcovey]

Why did you find it strange?

Even BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has warned in the past that using his technology to distribute material illegally is a "dumb idea," because the file-swapping tool is not designed to hide the identity of anyone using it.
he thought that because the rar file was just garbage text (until unrared) then it was undetectable. there are no advanced filters setup that check for certain bits of binary... just filenames and crap.

if the bullshit alliance sends another email then do what i do, send fake bsa emails about yourself and see if they act on them. if they do say "HA! those were all from me, i was just testing you.never actually downloaded anything, whores. see what you'd do to your own customers, send them empty threats :icon_thum "

[.:sp00ky:.]

NTL are arse holes boogiedan,id change isp if i was you im on ukonline i pay 10pound a month have unlimited upload download no complaints what so ever my bb's on 24/7 and as always been their cool you should change.

NTL are scum the people who work for them are scum iv met and and had the displeasure of talking to many of them,they tryed to charge me 400pounds for a months worth of internet lmao!

told them where to stick their cable and changed i still get junkmail in my name from them asking me to come back"we will give you free blah blah for a year" ect

hmm end of rant.

[Ne007]

To anyone using any typ of file sharing software.....get familiar with Peer Guardian (now in version 2.0) Blocks ANY unauthorized idiots from sniffing whats on your hard drive. I've seen some STRANGE STRANGE folks try to query my computer. Shanghai University (China) and some police dept in Nova Scotia!
I have Time Warner Cable (Waner Bros) and they have never even sniffed in my direction. I use PG WHENEVER I am downloading with Kazaa Lite or Bittorrent. Better safe than sorry. RIAA and MPAA go to hell!!! hee hee hee hee
Misfit

Sounds to me like YOU ought to get familiar with Peer Guardian....it's like wearing a condom 3 times when you boinged her 5. In other words it isn't even close to fullproof.

[mcovey]

Sounds to me like YOU ought to get familiar with Peer Guardian....it's like wearing a condom 3 times when you boinged her 5. In other words it isn't even close to fullproof.
get a vasectomy.

unplug your internet ;p

[DwarfBaby]

NTL are arse holes boogiedan,id change isp if i was you im on ukonline i pay 10pound a month have unlimited upload download no complaints what so ever my bb's on 24/7 and as always been their cool you should change.

NTL are scum the people who work for them are scum iv met and and had the displeasure of talking to many of them,they tryed to charge me 400pounds for a months worth of internet lmao!

told them where to stick their cable and changed i still get junkmail in my name from them asking me to come back"we will give you free blah blah for a year" ect

hmm end of rant.


So you’re saying you don't like NTL. I almost missed your subtlety :icon_pira

[.:sp00ky:.]

lol yeah my message was hidden in their somewhere :P

[zarquon]

Count me in!!
Basically i live in the U.K and my BBand compony is NTL..
anyhow's letter said somert like(just threw it! seriously)

Dear ...

we have at NTL a 30Gig D/load policy per month
and mine was 170Gig for July
basically blah blah blah but..
end of letter i remember it saying..
WE WILL B MONITORING YOUR WATEVER THROUGHOUT AUGUST!!
anyhow's a week 2 go in AUG left
DU Meter sez 110Gig(so ive cut down a bit!)
read through post's
is their anybody on zp from U.K n have NTL(any had same letters)

funny thing i remember say 18months or so--mabye less
when kazlite was the bomb
i got a letter by
MediaForce from the usa no bull
anyhow on letter it exactly said
Final Destination2 it was-exact time n date i d/.loaded of kaz!!
this is turning out to be a good thread
different countries/company's
any like me NTL

I am on ntl ireland. No probs here. They even have a great news server. Always get my stuff off their server.

[boogiedan]

Brill post's all n im read all n took in(hopefully)
i'll be using peer guardian ..
can any1 reccomend any U.K Provider were i pay say up to 25£permonth(approx-mabye less)
and i can d/load 150 to 200gig monthley without any worries!!
question also is my above amount to much(i up a lot on BT)(mostly BT)..
is it average--far too much--far too less!!
Thanks 4 any replies
cheer's Spooky for ukonline
any other reccomendation's

[shawners]

I hate to be the one to tell you this...but Loki torrents AND Elite Torrents were BOTH private sites! So I don't see how that made them any safer as they got shut down anyway.

your safer in the since that only one Ip address can enter or register and that once they fill up that the doors will close. Would you join torrentbytes.net or would you just keep using torrentspy.com??

[meyou123]

@Shawners.....those two sites loki and elite......THEY STILL GOT SHUT DOWN BY THE FBI! So no, you are no "safer" using private sites than public sites. And God knows what they tried to glean from the logs. So if only one IP address can enter or register on that private site, it just makes it easier for the people in the FBI going over the logs...as there are not multiple IP addresses. I really don't understand your reasoning that private sites are more safe, they are absolutely not!

So it really does not matter one way or another if a BT site is private or public, they can be shut down regardless and you are no safer.

BT is not a secure protocol within itself and was never built to be. So you are really kidding yourself if you think you are safer on a private BT site than a public one.

[boogiedan]

thanks all
whats the worse that can happen 2 me!
the NTL account is registered bill i mean under my dead grandmas name still(dead 3yrs)
honestly me n mum could'nt be bothered sayin ought!!
so is this a bounus 4 me
how do i work it if say more letters arrive
im continuing iv'e decided they wont stop me from what i love

[boogiedan]

just checked my DU Meter
ive cut down exactly half
100gig month

[shawners]

@Shawners.....those two sites loki and elite......THEY STILL GOT SHUT DOWN BY THE FBI! So no, you are no "safer" using private sites than public sites. And God knows what they tried to glean from the logs. So if only one IP address can enter or register on that private site, it just makes it easier for the people in the FBI going over the logs...as there are not multiple IP addresses. I really don't understand your reasoning that private sites are more safe, they are absolutely not!

So it really does not matter one way or another if a BT site is private or public, they can be shut down regardless and you are no safer.

BT is not a secure protocol within itself and was never built to be. So you are really kidding yourself if you think you are safer on a private BT site than a public one.


LOKITORRENT was an OPEN SITE.
ELITETORRENTS PUT star wars REVENGE Of the sith on the HOMEPAGE, in which you didnt need to log into view it. They got themselfs in trouble. It gave any agency information for them to invade the site and get logs as well as shut it down.But no real p2p program is ever safe. But since i have downloaded more then 160 dvd's and while some were 2 months before hitting retail or still on the theaters. I never got one letter. Apple will try their hardest to work with BAYTSP and others in trying to stop people from owning x86 iso.. I dont use piratebay, but if you can use Apples operating system on a pc.. THeir computer market will crash. Lots of people will lose money, investors, stock market, apple sales. Because there is no purpose in buying a mac.
Why dont you ask the guy what website or tracker he was downloading from?