The MPAA Wants ME.

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I got scary little email from my ISP today...

I just got THIS email:

Dear Verizon Online Customer:

We are writing to advise you that Verizon recently received a notification from a copyright owner of a possible copyright violation that appears to involve your Verizon Online account (the "Complaintant"). The work(s) identified by the copyright owner in its Complaint are listed below.

We are contacting you because our records indicate that the Internet protocol (IP) address provided to us by the copyright owner was assigned to your service on the date and time identified by the copyright owner. While this activity may have occurred without your permission or knowledge by an unauthorized user, or perhaps by a minor who may not fully understand the copyright laws, as the primary account holder, you are legally responsible for all activity originating from your account.

Copyright work(s) identified in the Complaint:

Copyright infringement level: 1
Notice ID: XXXXXXX
Title: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Protocol: BitTorrent
IP Address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
DNS: pool-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.~~~~~~~~~~~~.verizon.net
File Name: The.Mummy.Tomb.of.the.Dragon.Emperor.NTSC.DVDR-BULLDOZER
File Size: 4742108273
Timestamp: XX-XX-2008 XX:XX:XX UTC

Copyright infringement is a serious matter that violates U.S. copyright law and subjects infringers to criminal and civil liability. It also violates our Acceptable Use Policy (http://www2.verizon.net/policies/acceptable_use.asp) and Terms of Service (http://www2.verizon.net/policies/tos.asp). If you, or someone using your Internet connection, are engaged in the conduct alleged by the copyright owner, we urge you to stop (and ensure that anyone else who might have access to your Internet connection also stops).

Protecting Your Privacy: The copyright owner has not asked Verizon to identify you, and Verizon will NOT provide your identity without a lawful subpoena or other lawful process. However, if the copyright owner does issue a lawful subpoena or other lawful process that seeks information about your identity or account, Verizon will be legally required to provide the requested information to the copyright owner.
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If you have questions regarding this notice or would like to view Frequently Asked Questions about copyrights and piracy please visit us at www.verizon.net/copyrightfaq.

We appreciate your cooperation on this matter.

Sincerely,

Verizon Online

Now I want to hear from all the Pirates out there. I have a few questions:

1. What is your opinion-- Is this just a scare tactic, or will I be getting roughed up by "Frank" and "Tony" soon?

2. Are those Black Helicopters following Me?

3. Has anyone else here gotten a notice like this?

4. How does a person most effectively conceal their IP address when using a torrent client?

5. Is there a better way?

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ConeOfSilence, on 1/9/2009 11:17:11 PM
Total Posts: 1865, Joined: 3/9/2006

How does a person most effectively conceal their IP address when using a torrent client?"

use PeerGuardian

...you evil evil cyber criminal.

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screecwe, on 1/10/2009 1:43:36 AM
Total Posts: 759, Joined: 5/22/2006

You can also route your traffic through the Tor network (though it is highly frowned upon) or safepeer(available as a plug in for Azureus) which supposedly does the same thing.

Peerguardian 2 is a must, but by far not a total protection.

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chronicpirate, on 1/10/2009 1:51:54 AM
Total Posts: 59, Joined: 6/4/2006

safepeer plugin has nothing to do with tor. all it is is peer gaurdian built into a java plugin....exact same effect but only works with azureus instead of all traffic

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screecwe, on 1/10/2009 1:58:14 AM
Total Posts: 760, Joined: 5/22/2006

@chronic

Youre right i had it mixed up with somethin else

There was another plugin like tor for azureus ill just hafta find it.

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screecwe, on 1/10/2009 2:01:19 AM
Total Posts: 761, Joined: 5/22/2006

Here it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

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madsince8ir7h, on 1/10/2009 2:24:55 AM
Total Posts: 95, Joined: 4/10/2006

ffs thought redirects were disabled?

anyway, they should give that film away for free anyway its fuckin shit lol

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stonedwombat, on 1/10/2009 2:35:34 AM
Total Posts: 12, Joined: 2/22/2008

download from usenet instead of torrents

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Dock, on 1/10/2009 2:39:19 AM
Total Posts: 1669, Joined: 11/12/2005

http://amazon.com/

I'll grab my coat...

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Whatup5656, on 1/10/2009 2:57:50 AM
Total Posts: 196, Joined: 3/15/2007

even if anything happens...your just gonna get fined. pretty heavy too because your the one putting it out onto the net. not that their isn't others. Razor 1911 got caught and shut down for a while.

as for concealing your IP address. they got programs to mask your IP address.

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