Nerdtalker
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Tucson, AZ
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| reply to CapinPete
Re: 126 "Notice of Claim of Copyright Infringement" Emails
said by CapinPete  :The 1st email I received was 7/26. What, exactly, is the point of these emails? I would imagine if they were going to do something, they would have done so after 126 emails. That's a pretty fair assumption to make, given how many you've gotten.
They never really were intended to be some serious legal message, rather more of a measure of good faith on Comcast's part to show some kind of positive activity against piracy.
The RIAA/MPAA is still in no position to be the final legal authority behind all this, and they can scream, yell, and send letters until they're blue in the face. Even in most of these scenarios, the people are only connected to the tracker (even though they're still seeding), but might not even be seeding directly to the RIAA/MPAA's bot. I'd still have a hard time seeing them take legal action based solely on that.
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pyro0
join:2006-09-09
Port Huron, MI
| I just got one of those letters this morning. Hopefully it's the only one I'll ever get. I've been searching around for what, exactly, I should do as far as replying to them. I don't even have the file on my PC anymore. I actually have nothing on here since I formatted about 3 days ago. I read around with some saying to reply and tell them it's been deleted and never going to do it again and some say to just ignore it (admission of guilt) and to just not do anything. I also find it funny that my firewall has been stopping more attacks than ever. O.o |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
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Erie, PA
| said by pyro0 :I've been searching around for what, exactly, I should do as far as replying to them. I'm not a lawyer so understand that as I tell you this: Unless the message was via certified mail or some other track able method of correspondence, I would just ignore the email. If they're coming from comcast it's just a CYA move on Comcast's part and I imagine all of the replies are never read, just filed somewhere in case a lawyer comes after them.
If you're really worried about it you need to stop trading copyrighted files unless you're reasonably sure the holder of said copyright is ok with it. Ignoring the moral stands and thoughts on what should be with regard to intellectual property rights; the copyright holders are in the right legally at this point, if you trade their files they might come after you and have a fair chance of winning. Besides most of the stuff coming out of the popular movie and music industry is utter crap anyway.
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NetFixer
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Murfreesboro, TN
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| reply to pyro0
said by pyro0 :...I don't even have the file on my PC anymore. I actually have nothing on here since I formatted about 3 days ago... ...I also find it funny that my firewall has been stopping more attacks than ever... Those "attacks" are likely just your former P2P clients still attempting to connect to your server. 
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NormanS
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San Jose, CA
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| said by NetFixer :Those "attacks" are likely just your former P2P clients still attempting to connect to your server. I concur. I see hundreds of connection attempts to closed ports for a few hours after quitting torrents which were using those ports.
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