Should I be worried...

Well today upon reading my email I came across this.

Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber:

Comcast has received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized
agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made
on or over Comcast's High-Speed Internet service (the 'Service'). The copyright
owner has identified the Internet Protocol ('IP') address associated with your
Service account at the time as the source of the infringing works. The works
identified by the copyright owner in its notification are listed below. Comcast
reminds you that use of the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner
that constitutes an infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of
Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy and may result in the suspension or termination
of your Service account.



For more information regarding Comcast's copyright infringement policy,
procedures, and contact information, please read our Acceptable Use Policy by
clicking on the Terms of Service link at http://www.comcast.net.

Sincerely,
Comcast Legal Response Center
I was on utorrent downloading an album. How was I caught I've been downloading music for years ever since we got cable.

If I were you, I'd delete all your downloaded shit on your computer. Or at least back it up somewhere.

Yeah I've already done that. I'm just worried there going to cancel our service.

u sure it was'nt spam? did you check the link and everything ye? and if it is them reformat ur harddrive or download bcwipe and delete all ur warez or else ur fucked :p

Yes they left other parts of the message saying contact info etc. and listed what it was they knew I had downloaded with the time and program used and link to the download.

Yeah, sounds like it's legit. First offense, they'll probably just ask you to scrub your hard drive of all your downloaded shit and tell you never to do it again. That's why I store all my downloaded shit on CD's and delete them from my hard drive after they've been downloaded and burned.

eek
id be scared
from what ive read they dont hit people for a first offense though

no reason to be scared... absolutely none.... believe it or not... they said plainly in the letter, breeching their TOS can result in suspension/termination foyour account... just get a new ISP if they do cancel it... end of it.

Okay, thanks for the input. You guys think it's straight to be downloading music or would they still be watching me?

I would not risk downloading stuff with that ISP...they could be monitoring you now. Its up to you though...

If you switch ISPs though, then theres no worries.

Dude I got one of these too.

"Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber:

Comcast has received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made on or over Comcast's High-Speed Internet service (the 'Service'). The copyright owner has identified the Internet Protocol ('IP') address associated with your Service account at the time as the source of the infringing works. The works identified by the copyright owner in its notification are listed below. Comcast reminds you that use of the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner that constitutes an infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy and may result in the suspension or termination of your Service account.

Copyright work(s) identified in the notification of claimed infringement:

Title: Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Infringement Source: BitTorrent
Initial Infringement Timestamp: 25 Dec 2006 07:37:06 GMT
Recent Infringment Timestamp: 25 Dec 2006 07:37:06 GMT
Infringer Username:
Infringing Filename: Fast Times at Ridgemont High [XviD].avi/Fast Times at Ridgemont High [XviD].avi
Infringing Filesize: 906266624
Infringers IP Address: -
Infringers DNS Name:-
Infringing URL:
Title: Dazed and Confused

Infringement Source: BitTorrent
Initial Infringement Timestamp: 25 Dec 2006 07:50:29 GMT
Recent Infringment Timestamp: 25 Dec 2006 07:50:29 GMT
Infringer Username:
Infringing Filename: Dazed and Confused/Dazed and Confused.avi
Infringing Filesize: 719988736
Infringers IP Address: -
Infringers DNS Name: -
Infringing URL:

lol I just downloaded some more music. I'm still alive, so far. I think I'll be fine. I'm going to stay away from movies and games for a bit though...

It's weird, I had a bunch of games d/l to but they only caught my music. There not as smart as they think.

Haha looks like we both downloaded the same dazed and confused. All was fine though with mine.

This is the 1st I've heard of getting busted through torrents. I guess the net cops finally caught up. Maybe it's an isp thing. I've downloaded TB's of shit through torrents and not got a notice yet. Go road runner :-D

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