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Synbios:
Since the beginning of Napster I've been downloading music and then later movies.

For the first time, today I received a letter from my ISP explaining that I had got caught downloading moives from Paramount Pictures. I'm going to scan a copy of the letter later today.

It was using BitTorrent, uTorrent more specifically.

Has anyone ever gotten a letter like this? I'd like to hear your situation. I want to find a way I can continue downloading without getting caught again. From what I can tell this letter is only a warning.

I've never had a problem with Comcast at my house in Boston, MA. This happened to me in my apartment in Worcester, MA, with Charter Communications as the ISP. I've had them as my ISP for almost a year now and I've been using BT since I've had it.

chip!:
wow.. yeah let us know when you got it scanned.. i have to go to class now, but here are some resources:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/     (upload your notice there, and you might be able to get some help, or have other law students answer questions, etc)..

http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php  - a little outdated, but still some good basic info, with links to other resources..


http://tor.eff.org/    - Tor: anonymity online

Quantum:
Wipe all your data, remove programs, format hard drive, do a like a 7-pass clean etc..

Typically the first letter is a warning letter, so if you just don't do anything again it shouldn't be a problem...

TheNightWatchman:

--- Quote from: Quantum on March 19, 2007, 12:29:02 pm ---Wipe all your data, remove programs, format hard drive, do a like a 7-pass clean etc..

Typically the first letter is a warning letter, so if you just don't do anything again it shouldn't be a problem...

--- End quote ---

So you're saying you think it's some kind of spyware program that's seen he's downloading movies?

Synbios:
Here is the scanned PDF file from BayTSP.

I don't think it was spyware, from what I understand this is what happened:

Paramount Pictures hired the company BayTSP (http://www.baytsp.com/) to help track pirating movies.

Possibly, BayTSP has setup a false tracker and records IP addresses that request files from that tracker. BayTSP then contacts the ISP who owns the IP address. In my case, Charter Communications. I got a letter in the mail from Charter saying that they were notified by BayTSP about my infringement. They attached the letter which BayTSP gave to them, which is what I have scanned for you guys. The letter addressed to me from Charter contains personal information and is really of no use to you guys.

In other words, the pdf I have attached is a file addressed to Charter Communications, from BayTSP.

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