What should I do....the downloading material in question is 3 tv espoides...
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Re: Unauthorized Use of NBC Universal Properties
Notice ID: 14-15942221
23 Jan 2008 18:37:36 GMT

Dear Sir or Madam:

Please be advised that NBC Universal and/or its subsidiary and affiliated companies
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It has come to our attention that North Carolina State University is the service
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1/23/2008 2:19:54 PM

lol carrie levow. she's got a username on here. she's not the bad person here, just the informant saying NCSU got a complaint about you.

stop sharing illegal files, delete your P2P software and then email her back. if anything, you'll get a call from student conduct and lose your internet for the rest of the semester. a mere slap on the wrist compared to what you might face if nc state didn't protect your pirating ass

1/23/2008 2:20:17 PM

get your wallet ready.

1/23/2008 2:25:28 PM

Quote :

"a mere slap on the wrist compared to what you might face if nc state didn't protect your pirating ass"

lol. but joenumberz, NC STATE HATES ITS STUDENTS. this is undeniable. what say you?

1/23/2008 2:25:52 PM

In on page One

1/23/2008 2:28:17 PM

i got in trouble for using napster back in 2000/2001. i got a very similar email from ms. levow, so i did everything as requested, and I received a response saying my actions were appropriate and acceptable, and I never heard another word of it.

A friend of mine was running a dump, and he got in more trouble... He lost his Internet access for the rest of the semester.

But that's still not that bad compared to an actual lawsuit against him if NCSU would have turned his name over

1/23/2008 2:28:52 PM

yeah i got the same thing for downloading entourage, never got in trouble. although it did make me stop using torrents.

1/23/2008 2:30:02 PM

i hope you didn't go through all this trouble for three episodes of The Office

1/23/2008 2:30:52 PM

Tell them to go to hell.

1/23/2008 2:31:42 PM

Quote :

"although it did make me stop using public torrents. "

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 2:32 PM. Reason : bolded]

1/23/2008 2:32:13 PM

clevow

1/23/2008 2:32:29 PM

I had a suitemate get kicked out for hosting a server

1/23/2008 2:32:34 PM

Intellectual property rights are a sham.

1/23/2008 2:32:53 PM

^^^^ true, although my private torrenting died w/ oink.

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 2:34 PM. Reason : ^]

1/23/2008 2:33:54 PM

how were you sharing the files?

1/23/2008 2:34:03 PM

yall should read some of the similar type letters at thepiratebay and thepiratebay's responses...hilarity

http://thepiratebay.org/legal

1/23/2008 3:52:16 PM

what were you using to dl? torrents or p2p or what?

1/23/2008 3:57:00 PM

don't be a moron. disable uploading

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2008 3:58:31 PM

tell us which torrent site you were using

1/23/2008 4:02:34 PM

^^that's all you have to do

1/23/2008 4:04:29 PM

^ how do you do that on bittorrent?

1/23/2008 4:06:59 PM

why the hell didn't i stop by the pirate bay when i was in stockholm this past summer

also, some torrenting programs don't work well (specifically, fast) if you disable uploading...for example, utorrent requires upload set at 6kbps or higher to have uncapped downloading

the more you know

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 4:09 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2008 4:07:37 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eA3XCvrK90

1/23/2008 4:08:40 PM

sorry, i've never done the torrent thing

i works with frostwire though

1/23/2008 4:11:41 PM

just do what the email tells you to do. fortunately, only RIAA has been suing students. so far. so send a reply via the form, don't get caught again, and hope that NBC/Universal doesn't start going after NC State students the way the recording industry has.

1/23/2008 5:22:47 PM

1) Use Peerguardian
2) Don't use ResNet

1/23/2008 5:36:13 PM

So...what about stuff that's made by the BBC?

1/23/2008 5:39:38 PM

ha. I've gotten two of those letters. Got one fall of freshman year claiming that I had been downloading Walking Tall two weeks after it came out in theater. Granted I did download it but it was a day before it was released in theaters and I had already deleted it before the date I was supposedly downloading it again. Last semester I got an email saying that I had downloaded a movie called swimming pool. Hell, I hadn't even heard of the movie until that email and I still don't know what the fuck that movie is about.

Just send a letter saying that you will delete the copyright material and won't engage in illegal activities. If you wish to continue downloading, go download utorrent, click on preferences and change the maximum upload rate to whatever is the smallest amount that you can still get decent downloads with. You can also download PeerGuardian which has a blacklist of known ips associated with the recording/movie industry.

1/23/2008 6:08:36 PM

Quote :

"also, some torrenting programs don't work well (specifically, fast) if you disable uploading...for example, utorrent requires upload set at 6kbps or higher to have uncapped downloading"

disable that shit altogether, I'm tellin' you.

in reality just so long as you keep you u/l bandwidth low, you will never have a problem - you are prolly the moron that leaves the shit running day and night with no limits...also, you prolly downloaded your files from a sketchy torrent. peerguardian ftw

1/23/2008 6:17:41 PM

1/23/2008 6:22:36 PM

lol

1/23/2008 6:23:33 PM

^^lollerz


here's an idea for the future....DON'T DOWNLOAD ILLEGALLY, durrrrrrrrrrr.

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 6:24 PM. Reason : ^]

1/23/2008 6:23:57 PM

Quote :

"here's an idea for the future....DON'T DOWNLOAD ILLEGALLY, durrrrrrrrrrr."

But everybody else does it!!1

1/23/2008 6:25:51 PM

disable sharing


problem fixed

/thread

1/23/2008 6:27:04 PM

^^ I don't

1/23/2008 6:27:24 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3104281.stm

1/23/2008 6:29:17 PM

Wait, I thought if it is online it is automatically legal.

1/23/2008 6:43:03 PM

Ideally, we would be able to share information freely.

1/23/2008 6:44:39 PM

^ ^

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 6:50 PM. Reason : ]

1/23/2008 6:50:01 PM

Quote :

"A friend of mine was running a dump, and he got in more trouble... He lost his Internet access for the rest of the semester."

he got off very lucky

1/23/2008 6:53:42 PM

i got like 10 of these emails when i was living in the dorms. never replied or did shit with any of them

1/23/2008 6:55:02 PM

we're a little more dilligent now that they keep subpoenaing us for names.

1/24/2008 9:02:32 AM

are yall legally required to give out names for stuff like this? or is that a violation of the privacy policy?

1/24/2008 9:03:51 AM

i remember back in the day when none this mattered, i must have downloaded 10000 or more mp3s

1/24/2008 9:04:58 AM

we provide names only when subpoenaed for the information. the students in question are notified before their names are released to the RIAA so they have an opportunity to stop the subpoena.

we never give out names unless legally required to do so.

1/24/2008 9:18:43 AM

^^ for real.

1/24/2008 9:25:28 AM

Quote :

"he got off very lucky"

haha

1/24/2008 9:57:21 AM

^^^ Yet another reason why I keep using TWW. You come looking for help and you get your answers straight from the horse's mouth. I've not used resnet in years, but it is def cool that clevow helps out on here.

1/24/2008 10:06:01 AM

thanks

now if only i could express my real opinion about all this.... but alas, i must do my job....

1/24/2008 10:09:14 AM

F the RIAA and F the MPAA? AMIRITE?

God I remember in 2000 when I started at State just as Napster was hitting it big. I had only had dialup at home and when I got my computer plugged in and ran that thing the first time on campus, I about came. I was able to download songs in SECONDS! I filled many gigs of HD space with songs because of NCSU and ResNet. Those were the good old days.

[Edited on January 24, 2008 at 10:17 AM. Reason : ]

1/24/2008 10:15:54 AM