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Hi Guys

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this thread but I have a problem I wish to share and hopefully somebody can help.

I received this notification from my ISP (Imaginet) yesterday:

Please note, that we have been informed by Internet Solutions, that Illegal content is being downloaded via your adsl account.
They have requested that you remove the item from your download queue, ignoring this request may result in your account being suspended.

Please see attached from IS
Subject: 22-45183734 Notice of Unauthorized Use of Paramount Pictures Corporation Property
Sent to:
Assigned to:
Suspected Activity: Illegal software
Client IP Address:
Client IP Netblock:
Company Name: IMAGINET
Service Identifier:
Initial Infringement Timestamp: 06 Feb 2013 20:23:26 GMT
Recent Infringement Timestamp: 06 Feb 2013 20:23:26 GMT
Infringers IP Address:
Protocol: BitTorrent
Infringed Work: Aeon Flux
Infringing File Name: Aeon Flux (2005)
Infringing File Size: 47282816

What can/should I do about this? Any help would be hot.
 
Use peerblock.

Also, haha, you pervert! (only reason to watch aeon flux)
 
babyinateacup said:
Hi Guys

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this thread but I have a problem I wish to share and hopefully somebody can help.

I received this notification from my ISP (Imaginet) yesterday:

Please note, that we have been informed by Internet Solutions, that Illegal content is being downloaded via your adsl account.
They have requested that you remove the item from your download queue, ignoring this request may result in your account being suspended.

Please see attached from IS
Subject: 22-45183734 Notice of Unauthorized Use of Paramount Pictures Corporation Property
Sent to:
Assigned to:
Suspected Activity: Illegal software
Client IP Address:
Client IP Netblock:
Company Name: IMAGINET
Service Identifier:
Initial Infringement Timestamp: 06 Feb 2013 20:23:26 GMT
Recent Infringement Timestamp: 06 Feb 2013 20:23:26 GMT
Infringers IP Address:
Protocol: BitTorrent
Infringed Work: Aeon Flux
Infringing File Name: Aeon Flux (2005)
Infringing File Size: 47282816

What can/should I do about this? Any help would be hot.
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Get your content from a legal source and don't steal
 
As far as I remember its illegal for South African ISP's to monitor your traffic without a warrant.
(Someone will definetly jump up and correct me if I'm wrong)
so ignore it. They can't prove it. And if they can they broke the law. (Bad momma, slap wrist)

If you do torrent, which I'm not insinuating you do, get something like Peerblock.
 
Compton_effect said:
As far as I remember its illegal for South African ISP's to monitor your traffic without a warrant.
(Someone will definetly jump up and correct me if I'm wrong)
so ignore it. They can't prove it. And if they can they broke the law. (Bad momma, slap wrist)

If you do torrent, which I'm not insinuating you do, get something like Peerblock.
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+1 Thisk its still illegal for them to Monitor you, basiclly paramount sent a letter to IS and, IS sent it it to Imagenet who sent it to you.
Im sure if you check the MYBB archives there was an article about the letters being sent.
 
Compton_effect said:
As far as I remember its illegal for South African ISP's to monitor your traffic without a warrant.
(Someone will definetly jump up and correct me if I'm wrong)
so ignore it. They can't prove it. And if they can they broke the law. (Bad momma, slap wrist)

If you do torrent, which I'm not insinuating you do, get something like Peerblock.
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ISP's can do as they will. It is a private company that you choose to use.
The laws determine what they can be forced to provide to the government.
If they get a letter from a company informing them that a certain one of their users is involved in activity they do not approve of, they can most certainly send you a warning letter
 
I already own said title on Blu Ray

AcidRaZor said:
stop pirating ****
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I already own said title on blu ray but I don't want to infringe on copyright laws by ripping the title, getting an online copy of something I own already isn't illegal? I just don't want the hassle to keep swapping discs and use a HTPC. If the movie or any movie for that fact was available locally as a paid-for download - I'd be first in line.
 
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babyinateacup said:
I already own said title on blu ray but I don't want to infringe on copyright laws by ripping the title, getting an online copy of something I own already isn't illegal? I just don't want the hassle to keep swapping discs and use a HTPC. If the movie or any movie for that fact was available locally as a paid-for download - I'd be first in line.
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You don't own the movie. You licensed the right to view it on a specific medium.
You can get most movies on iTunes or similar services
 
now if you were getting porn no warning would have been received! :p

i thought these legal issues wasnt enforceble here. are you using a private tracker? peerblock isnt that big. i always forget to start it. should move it into startup.

and to get busted for such a bad movie is unforgivable. lol. :p.

you dont want to infringe on copyright laws but you downloading via torrents. makes absolutely no sense. no man OP, just rip the movie then. besides that blu-ray quality is so schexy you should watch it like that. i havent ripped any of my blu-rays.
 
Send them an email saying you don't know what they're talking about. Ask them for proof :twisted:
 
I see the myth that this is the ISP monitoring your traffic is still pervasive here. This is not the ISP either monitoring your traffic or aiding the media companies in doing so.

You are downloading via BitTorrent and automatically making it available for upload. BitTorrent advertises the list of available files for anyone in the cloud to see and the media companies have BitTorrent protocol clients that harvest these freely-published lists and scan them for name matches which they then send automated emails about to the email listed in the whois for the IP address they detect.

Whether this is illegal to do is unclear, and probably isn't since it is the same as you pasting a list of drugs you can provide onto a noticeboard at the local Spar and then complaining when the cops read it and act on it. (Don't go on about movies not being the same as drugs, this was an example I heard of happening in East London a few years back)

++PEERBLOCKER++
 
Its not the ISP, Paramount/Sony etc generate these reports and send it to the ISP allocated to the IP that they pick up. No traffic is monitored for these purpose at the ISP level. ISPA did not pass the law stating that traffic should be monitored for illegal activity such as piracy download....

Also it is not a warning letter... It is Paramount/Sony that is asking for you to please stop downloading/distributing piracy files.
 
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