Copyright Infringement

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:27 am

yeah i have been busted twice by my internet provider, but they haven't done anything yet. the letters scared me though. earlier in this forum i read something on peer guardian. will this help against these letters?

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:00 pm

I got one letter a while ago...got peerguardian and havent been busted since.
Peer guardian is a good way to protect yourself though accidents can always happen. I keep pg2 on ALL the time even when im not sharing.

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:30 pm

Cool, thanks, i'll give it a try.

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:38 am

Thanks for the peerguardian link!

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:53 am

udipanda wrote:

I got one letter a while ago...got peerguardian and havent been busted since.
Peer guardian is a good way to protect yourself though accidents can always happen. I keep pg2 on ALL the time even when im not sharing.

I've always used PG2 (although can't now as I'm running Vista) and I've never had a problem in regards to any DMCA notices, etc. But I've read things in the past about "how useful is PG2?" - it's had mixed comments.

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:42 am

So should i keep PG2? Is it easier to find me by having it to suspect or not to have it and less of a chance ot recieving some sort of notice?

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:10 pm

Thinking I need to try pg2. ISP shut off my service because of the above mentioned activity. I got it back on by promising to "be good", but they had sent me 7 letters about notifications they received regarding my p2p internet activity and they said one more and they will shut off my service for good. Now this sucks because I love the ability to download, but I love having internet service better!

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 5:32 am

Thanks alot 4 the info on this peerguardian. i got old that u couldnt b tracked but obviously u can. Now i have knowledge of this peerguardian is downloadin as i speak. I want 2 hav the privaledges of downloadin what i want wen i want! its great i love it so im jus sayin thankyou 4 this post, its gonna make me feel at ease wen downloadin now Smile

plus 1 rep on ya buddy Smile

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:25 pm

SecretSquirrel wrote:

This is why things like peerguardian are generally a good idea Wink

Absolutely right.

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:19 pm

I got one too! lol

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:45 am

Got mine last week and had to fax in a form since it was my 2nd offense. Got burned by HBO both times. I am going to try PeerGuardian but I have Vista x64. Hopefully it will protect me in the future.

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:11 pm

Just thought I'd add my two cents. A few hours ago I noticed some weird lagging in my pc so I did a netstat check and discovered a couple weird connections.

One of the connections was to k2test1<dawt>microsoft<dawt>com. Never even heard of that one before.

The other one was to customer-security<dawt>cox<dawt>net.

Both of these connections were established via a few files when I did a netstat -b check:

svchost.exe
mswsock.dll
ws2_32.dll

I still don't know which service was causing it. I tried stopping/disabling all of them one at a time, no luck. After PeerGuardian2 failed to fix it, I downloaded a free firewall and just blocked the files. It seems to have worked. I'd like to know just exactly what they were doing. The only thing I can think of is that I d/l'd a harry potter sample off usenet. I don't use my ISP provided usenet service though, so I'm not sure how they'd know I d/l'd the sample. I won't know if they email me a threat-letter, because I have no idea what my isp email is lol. Maybe they'll send me something via snail-mail.

Anyone else experiencing the same sort of thing?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:36 pm

As I understand it, these servers are run by a couple of guys in Australia who cannot conceviably pay the amount there being sued for ,
So (and this is just speculation) the possibilty that they might make a deal to lay blame on the individual users of programs like Kazaa on their servers is very real. Such as monitoring , tracing and and charging people for copyright infringement.

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:42 pm

Just remember no matter what you do you cant truly hide you IP from your ISP so if the Government was looking into you its to late . Twisted Evil

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:17 pm

dhine wrote:

As I understand it, these servers are run by a couple of guys in Australia who cannot conceviably pay the amount there being sued for ,
So (and this is just speculation) the possibilty that they might make a deal to lay blame on the individual users of programs like Kazaa on their servers is very real. Such as monitoring , tracing and and charging people for copyright infringement.

You sir fail in every aspect of your post. you should get your facts straight before you post lies like that.

First this site is Canadian and you are an idiot.

Second You post in the wrong section (Which I deleted).

Third you come here to bad mouth us you can just GTFO.