So I got a letter from the DMCA

[*Shinzon*]

Long story short they traced a tracker file that was originally hosted on Piratebay and Universal wants a reply about action that I've taken to resolve the problem. Knowing theres alot of people who do file sharing here, I'm interested to know if anyone knows exactly what kind of reply they're looking for.

The obvious would be to answer that its been deleted but that kinda leaves me defenseless I'd imagine because that's probably as close to an admission they'd get. Soo, how beyond the obvious how should I reply?

[Alleya]

To whom it may concern,

There appears to be a glitch in your legal department. I would venture to guess that when you purchased the door plaque for your legal office building, there may have been a mix up in shipments. The sign on the building should read "Universal Legal Department" and not "World Privacy Police." I'm sure this was an honest mistake and I hope I have been helpful in pointing out this error. Hopefully the issue will be resolved before anyone gets the wrong idea about what their job is!

Sincerely,
Guy on the internet.

[HAcoreRD]

To whom it may concern,

There appears to be a glitch in your legal department. I would venture to guess that when you purchased the door plaque for your legal office building, there may have been a mix up in shipments. The sign on the building should read "Universal Legal Department" and not "World Privacy Police." I'm sure this was an honest mistake and I hope I have been helpful in pointing out this error. Hopefully the issue will be resolved before anyone gets the wrong idea about what their job is!

Sincerely,
Guy on the internet.

this

[Odon]

this

What he said.

[*Shinzon*]

Yeah I'm not exactly fond of the letter considering the material in question was an episode of Knight Rider(lol) which is already available on NBC's website. Basically they want me to stop uploading which I did a few days ago anyway. These law suits and threatening letters are so silly, especially when its for something like this.

[Ramor]

I'd say alleya's letter is about all you need.

edit: also, i think the main contention is that they aren't getting any kickbacks from it being pirated, but they get at least some sort of financial incentive if you watch it on their site

[Yangsing]

Why would you dl knight rider?

[archibaldcrane]

You deserve pound-me-in-the-ass prison time for watching Knight Rider.

[SephYuyX]

Knight Rider > most, stfu.
(unless youre talking about the new one, which I havent seen, but hope it's good cuse I think I may dl the ones if missed.)

[*Shinzon*]

Well I had wanted to see the episode the next day and it wasn't on NBC's site so I just downloaded it and deleted it later on, keep in mind this only the first time I've gotten a letter like this but they are asking very firmly for some reply to their email.

[tyven]

this happened to me once when i DL'd an episode of Rome. my internet was cut off till it was deleted from my computer

[0ni0n]

You got a letter from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

If I remember correctly, DMCA letter usually is only a cease and desist order. If so, stop file sharing.

Otherwise, you should wait it out unless there's a definitive deadline spelled out on the letter for you to respond, because Harvard law school and one of its most renown law professor Charles Nesson are suing RIAA regarding the unconstitutional nature of its litigation method.

[Rem]

You deserve pound-me-in-the-ass prison time for watching Knight Rider.

Lol So true.

[*Shinzon*]

The complaint was addressed to my ISP, but they sent me a copy of the DMCA complaint along with a letter from the ISP saying I was sharing copyrighted material and would need to stop.

[baralai80]

Step one Stop dl'ing from public trackers
Step two get pg2 (yeah some people say it makes no difference but it works for me so i can't say)
Step 3 be patient and wait for it to get on hulu if they scared u enough you silly goose

[0ni0n]

The complaint was addressed to my ISP, but they sent me a copy of the DMCA complaint along with a letter from the ISP saying I was sharing copyrighted material and would need to stop.

You should check out Tor. You will never be bothered again no matter how much you download.

Tor: anonymity online

Here's a guide to encrypt your bittorrent traffic, including bitcomet, utorrent, and azureus

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encry...rrent-traffic/

[*Shinzon*]

Step one Stop dl'ing from public trackers
Step two get pg2 (yeah some people say it makes no difference but it works for me so i can't say)
Step 3 be patient and wait for it to get on hulu if they scared u enough you silly goose

Yeah well, I didn't check the tracker first but it was off Demonoid ;x

[0ni0n]

Yeah well, I didn't check the tracker first but it was off Demonoid ;x

I can get all my tv torrents from eztv, EZTV - TV Torrents Online (eztvefnet.org is now eztv.it), torrents usually show up about 30mins-1hour after it is shown on tv.

never have any problem, but then again, I don't watch knight rider.

[*Shinzon*]

Thanks for those links, the Tor one seems to be down atm though.

[0ni0n]

Thanks for those links, the Tor one seems to be down atm though.

http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en it's up.

While tor grants you anonymity, it does slow down your connection. So use it at your own discretion.

[Kiro]

Alleya's response was soooo good. One of the best things I've read on BG in far too long.

[Lordwafik]

I use EZTV for everything, but then again I'm not sure if aussies get DMCA warnings distributed, haven't heard of me or my friends getting one ever.

[Kiro]

I think it's US and CA onry. Dunno about the latter though.

[Killgannon]

i got one of these a couple weeks ago... basically they gave me a form to fill out stating what i did... it had options like "yes ive complied and deleted teh material", and other things like i dont believe I was doing anything wrong, and even one that said "no i did not comply.", i of course said "yes i complied and deleted teh offending material off my pc" since it was never on my PC in the first place (but on my NAS) it wasnt really a lie was it?

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Title: Heroes (TV)
Infringement Source: BitTorrent
Initial Infringement Timestamp: 5 Oct 2008 02:25:34 GMT
Recent Infringement Timestamp: 5 Oct 2008 02:25:34 GMT
Infringing Filename: Heroes.S03E01.HDTV.XviD-0TV
Infringing File size: 375663183
Infringers IP Address: 66.93.203.21
Infringers DNS Name: dsl093-203-021.ind1.dsl.speakeasy.net
Infringing URL: http://www.moviex.info:2710/r12xjr0a...xj31q/announce

thats a copy of the email i recieved, i no longer have that ip, or even that ISP (totally not related to this happening)

[Tyche]

I use tor and PG2 lol >.> Never had that issue, but my ISp does get rather irritated when I upload over 5gba day =/

[SephYuyX]

I dont use anything and ive never had problems with anyone, including my ISP.

[archibaldcrane]

Knight Rider > most, stfu.
(unless youre talking about the new one, which I havent seen, but hope it's good cuse I think I may dl the ones if missed.)

I hope you get pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for watching the new Knight Rider too.

Obviously he wasn't getting a cease and desist for watching a 20 year old show...

[SephYuyX]

I hope you get pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for watching the new Knight Rider too.

Obviously he wasn't getting a cease and desist for watching a 20 year old show...

It's happened with The Simpsons, Swiss Family Robinson, Rags to Riches, and The Wonder Years from a quick Google.

And it cant be that bad, right?

[Demosthenes11]

To whom it may concern,

There appears to be a glitch in your legal department. I would venture to guess that when you purchased the door plaque for your legal office building, there may have been a mix up in shipments. The sign on the building should read "Universal Legal Department" and not "World Privacy Police." I'm sure this was an honest mistake and I hope I have been helpful in pointing out this error. Hopefully the issue will be resolved before anyone gets the wrong idea about what their job is!

Sincerely,
Guy on the internet.

wait wait wait, it's a bad thing when the government catches you for doing something illegal? Is it also wrong for the police to come in my house after I steal shit at a store?
If they do it by infiltrating your computer it's one thing, but the way they find out their info is not like that at all.

If you do something illegal, don't be pissed off when you get caught.

[archibaldcrane]

And it cant be that bad, right?

I hear they have conjugal visits!