In trouble for piracy?

[orangeman]

Does any body remember when they used to say on news that there were people getting caught that was downloading music and movies and stuff? Well I was wondering how many people actually know some one that sort of got in trouble for piracy? Because I really don't know anyone personally that ever got in trouble for piracy and almost everyone I know does do it lol.

[Matt the Funk]

LOL I don't know anyone either, I've easily downloaded thousands of dollars worth in movies,music, and programs too.

[JustinSKS]

I'm with you, I have not even heard of any cases in Wisconsin...Hah.

[lazy smoker7]

Ive heard of a few ppl getting in trouble. Like also sometimes I heard of people getting contacted by their isp to stop pirating.... so yes u can get caught but the odds are 1 in a (ever one else who does it) which is billions

[dejayou30]

At least 50 movies, 15,000 songs, and hundreds of free programs and games all exist on me and my roomates' computers and none of us have gotten in trouble. My 60 GB iPod is completely full of stuff I didn't pay anything for. I think its more of a scare tactic than anything.

[Lucifuge]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they were mostly college kids using the university's internet service. They offer it to students cheap, and some of them WILL snitch on you if you use it to do something illegal. RIAA.com has a few links if you feel like looking through their news archives.

[poiuyt]

I think its more of a scare tactic than anything.

Not true.

My friend got a letter from his ISP telling him they will shut off his internet if he continues to download movies/songs from Torrents and limewire.

It had every movie he downloaded in the past month (including porn, so his parents weren't too thrilled), and a large bill to pay.

I saw it with my own eyes. The bill was something like 250$

[orangeman]

LOL that's a bit funny to me. I just wonder what the parents were thinking when they seen the porn.

[Kid Dynamite]

my grandmother downloaded a season of Diagnosis murder...within hours the RIAA kicked in her door. When she turned round she had her cane in her hands...needless to say the S.W.A.T's opened fire, she was cut down in a hail of bullets

god rest her pirate soul











(j/k)

[KL4D4]

I've gotten 2 letters from the RIAA so far....

[Markass]

I've gotten 2 letters from the RIAA so far....

you should scan and post them so we can see what this notice looks like...I kinda want one; it'd be pretty cool.

[gee]

Not true.

My friend got a letter from his ISP telling him they will shut off his internet if he continues to download movies/songs from Torrents and limewire.

It had every movie he downloaded in the past month (including porn, so his parents weren't too thrilled), and a large bill to pay.

I saw it with my own eyes. The bill was something like 250$

thats fucked up. i always had the horrible thought of that whenever i used to go download movies and porn and shit, and then 30 days later a bill comes for all the shit that i viewed.

question though, what part of canada are u in? and not on rogers internet i hope?

[poiuyt]

thats fucked up. i always had the horrible thought of that whenever i used to go download movies and porn and shit, and then 30 days later a bill comes for all the shit that i viewed.

question though, what part of canada are u in? and not on rogers internet i hope?

Montreal. He used Bell Sympatico when that happened.

[MFer]

A friend of mine had Comcast call his house, telling him to delete the pirated version of Photoshop or they'd shut down his internet :P

[Reefer Rogue]

Lol, paying for music seems farcical to me. Gotta love technology.

[ValkyrieAg]

I had some friends across the hall in college that got shafted by the college. It took down our 'intraweb' campus sharing client. It was awesome. HUGE amounts from people down the hall, down the street, across campus. As long as they were on the campus network, full movies took about 3 minutes. Most everything else instant. Wicked stuff.

[Gatekeeper777]

My brother got a letter from his ISP for SUSPICION of piracy due to the amount downloaded. other then that I dont know of anyone.

[smoke it]

a friend of a friend got in trouble for it. got a small fine, but nothin else.

[gee]

Montreal. He used Bell Sympatico when that happened.

oh bell's offered down here too, thank god my mom didnt switch to it.

next time the a cheap deal comes from bell and my mom wants it, i'll tell her otherwise:thumbsup:

[notransfer]

orange i know someone who was in deep
i cant talk much about it..sworn to silence

[Amun]

i dont think anyone actually got *sued*....i think all settled out of court.


and it wasnt many that that happened too.


RIAA/MPAA is a joke. i have at least 600-800 gigs of tv, music, movies, books, game and all kinds of other shit. fuck em.

[nikweiser]

sworn silence you shouldnt even be saying you know someone who was in deep lol

i have a lot of music and programs.. same with my dad too. we also had 3 houses all connected to our internet and they paid us per month for interent, we had around 9 connections i think and when comcast came over to install our phone to our internet or whatever, we had to hide the routers and switches and shit lol

[notransfer]

my other friend has a ex hd with 200 gigs of music movies tv shows etc

nah lol i just dont wanna tell the details...even though i really want to share the info because the story's funny lol

[MrsDarkIdol]

Probably just tried to crucify a few people because companies are getting nervous.:cool: It's way to big of a thing to stop, it's like trying to police the internet.:wtf: Odds are in our favor of not getting caught. I think my husband said it was like the odds of winning the lottery. His brother got contacted like others have said from his isp but they switched companies or something. But he got caught cause he has three comps hooked up d/l ALOT 1 which was solely kept on for that purpose to 24-7 d/l porn.

As Weird Al puts it-they need all that money for their diamond studded pools right?

[N3D FLANDERS]

my grandmother downloaded a season of Diagnosis murder...within hours the RIAA kicked in her door. When she turned round she had her cane in her hands...needless to say the S.W.A.T's opened fire, she was cut down in a hail of bullets

god rest her pirate soul



(j/k)

HAHA
that was good

[19Chuck85]

I was contacted by my ISP a few years back for uploading, they told me that i was uploading 40gigs per month and that I was allowed 5. They didn't even charge me for the 35gigs i went over.
For all you limewire users out there, how many of you just downloaded limewire pro using the "free" version?

:jointsmile: Chuck

[orangeman]

Lol wow. More people got in trouble than I thought about this. I might wanna slow down my constant downloading xD.

[thebeancounter41]

THe RIAA mostly focuses on people who are not only downloading but also "seeding" pirated files.Such as the college students with 3 terabytes of mp3's on their computer who are set up as a torrent seeder.and also the individuals who download 10 or 20 movies every week or download entire bibliographies of musical artists.downloading a cd once in a while or a movie now and then is pretty much safe.It's when you go nuts and try to get every damn mp3 or movie out there that they jump down your throat.

[thebeancounter41]

i got a letter once threatening to shut off our internet service, but no fines or anything... you'll most likely get caught downloading off of torrents than you will off of peer to peer networking, because on torrent, most big companies will look for their material on there, and you have to share,,, on peer to peer you dont have to share.. which is great.

Most P2P programs route ALL traffic through a central server.It isnt REALLY true P2P.The torrents on the other hand ARE true P2P there IS no main server like with Kazaa or grokster.with those,your initial login and file requests get filtered trough their main server and then sent on to other individual computer terminals.with torrents,there IS no "logon" to do.You merely contact a "tracker" which is a personal comp somewhere that the person has allowed to be used as a hub.From there on, all the data you get or transmit is straight from the individual computer that actaully HAS the file you need.No more "server" to run through,as with kazaa.