i don't know--i just throw all my mail in the garbage once or twice a month

you should have posted this as your image. then you could have said pic related.

I used to pirate at least 5 games a day. I wouldn't even play them, I just wanted to stick it to those corporate bastards. My ISP caught me and sent me to the slammer for 8. I'm posting this from the pen.

I've gotten then once in the 2 out of 3 different places I lived in the last 2 years. They did nothing

>>33810819
cool story, bro

>>33810754
hope so, that would give me a legal reason to move to a different ISP, and those fucking jewfags wouldn't want that

Not yet. Getting paranoid though.

Nah. Either my ISP doesn't give a shit, or I'm like a fucking ghost with all I pirate.
Friend did though, after getting Spore shortly after release (dumb idea, obvious target, etc), but all it was was a slap on the wrist and hes back on the high seas.

Put it this way: If they could do anything about it, they would have already. It's just a scare tactic.

I got one from Comcast once, they threatened to suspend or discontinue my internets. They didn't do anything, but i still don't torrent anymore.

I've never heard anything, and I've been pirating regularly for many years.

If you're paranoid, OP, just use rapidshares, megaupload, etc.

I got a few emails a couple of times from Charter about the ESA contacting them about several pirated games. Weird thing is, it is mostly Capcom and Sony games that got me the emails.

I usually ignore them, although I do not pirate on a regular basis so I think I am OK. Even then, we are ending our service with charter at the end of the month, so it does not matter.

Got one about a year and like 2 months ago. Never did anything about it. However, I was like "Well that was invasive, lets see how I can stop that from happening again." Google is a powerful tool.
http://wiki.phoenixlabs.org/wiki/Type%27s_of_Infringement_Letters

Excellent resource for knowing what you're getting into.

My friend got one, almost got his internet shut off. He was lucky though, his mother works for the cable company.

never been contacted but i once had my cable shut off because they thought i was running an illegal website from my house with all the downloading and uploading i was doing.

>>33810842
>that would give me a legal reason to move to a different ISP
Your ISP threatening you for illegal activities gives you a legal excuse to move to a different ISP? What?

>>33810948
I should note that it was 1 year 2 months ago, not 2 separate times.

Got one because my brother downloaded Medieval 2: Total War (and it was only because our CDs were fucked up, he had a CD key and all that). They just threatened to shut down our account if anything concerning torrenting ever appeared. I moved out recently though, at my new place I pirate like a motha fucka.

>>33810948
> Stage Four
>These kinds of copyright infrinegement letters maybe sent via e-mail and/or mail service. (if they are sent via email, I would ignore it and move on) if they turn off your At this point they are threatening to cut you internet off due to service breaching the TOS (Terms Of Service) and/or already have suspended your internet connection.

>They are requesting a settlement. (By stage 4 these letters are usually sent by the anti-p2p company not your ISP, but it is not impossible to get a stage four letter from your ISP) I would heed their warning and stay off P2P networks for a while.

Well fuck, Comcast went ahead and skipped the first three and went straight to the fourth one.

>>33810948
>Type's of Infringement Letters
>Type's
looks like a great place to get legal advice

I thought I got one once, but it turns out they were just notifying me that I won $50 for ordering over one hundred porn movies via Demand.

>>33810754
I have gotten 3, 2 for the same one and another one last week for Dreamweaver.
I'm scared to even go to piratebay now.
Pic related, If i was a HIND he would be my ISP.....

>>33811200
You've got to be bullshitting.

>>33811287

No. They seriously will reward you with $50 if you order one hundred types of one movie within a month. I won under the 'adult' category.

This is why you should get jobs and buy your games.

>>33811333
they ought to send you a wanker of the year award or something, too

I've been pirating for about 4 years now. Haven't gotten shit.

>>33810906
>If you're paranoid, OP, just use rapidshares, megaupload, etc.
Not that easy if it's a large (i.e. any recent) game.

OP here, thanks for putting me at ease. Not really worring anymore.

>>33811250
I downloaded the torrent that got me caught from The pirate bay as well.

>>33811340
OP here, I usually do just buy my games. It was right before my birthday and I was restless and was bored out of my mind. It was really the only time I pirated a game. And I'm not going to buy a game that I might just be getting for my birthday.

After all that shit that Pirate Bay went through, is it even smart to be using their site?

Yep. They did nothing.

It depends on what the letter said.
If it's the typical, "You've been naughty, stop it." They won't do anything unless you continue to be an idiot and get caught more times.

Plus, it wouldn't be the ISP bringing the action. The ISP is only contacting you because someone else contacted them.

>>33811524

They're buying it just to shut it down, you know.

My friend torrented Adobe Photoshop I think and he got his internet completely shut off for a while and a letter. I can't remember what ISP he had though.

stop spamming http://www.AnomTalk.com/ (Anom = Anon) jnnls g fd

ITT: ISPs use lies and slander to discourage piracy.

>>33811691
>ITT: ISPs use lies and slander to discourage piracy.
>slander
You don't even know what slander means.

>Slander is the oral communication of false statements that are harmful to a person's reputation.

>>33811181
I never said it had perfect spelling, just that it told you what to expect. I should also mention that it tells you what particular ISP letters/emails/messages look like and how serious they are. (brotip: none of them are serious.)

My internet was shut off for some reason some years back. My dad calls up the ISP to ask why we werent connected and they told him they disabled us as a warning to stop pirating ( I had downloaded photoshop). They threatened to sue us for $500,000.00 if I did it again. They also told me to stop using BitTorrent. I still used BT but i did cut down on software downloades. But then we switched to a different ISP and Ive only been downloading porn really. MU/RS/MF for other stuff.

saxton hale is australian, not american

also, he never sleeps.

torrents + that TOR program = never get caught?

>>33812027

Using Tor is more likely to get you caught, since all Tor outlets have to go through the U.S. government sifter by law

Service providers are not allowed to monitor the traffic coming through. If you get caught, then you most likely got caught by some hired (by Ubisoft) anti-pirate leech on a torrent. All that anti-P2P dude really has is a number, your IP.

They call your provider and claim that you were doing baaaaad things. Your service provider can get in just as much trouble as you will, so they send you a note saying "hey, some guy said you were infringing on his stuff. Cut it out."

Your provider does not want to lose you as a customer, but they also don't want you fucking things up for them. If they get enough notices on you, maybe three strikes or something, they will usually deny you service indefinitely.

It is usually left at that. Seldom is it that the situation will escalate to the point that feds will kick in your door and take your hard drive to see if you have any illegal stuffs and then let the dudes you copied off of prosecute you.

>>33812027
Tor + Vidalia COULD be win but not sure.

PeerGuardian = TRASH. Don't bother.

1) stop using torrents
2) find newsgroup
3) pirate

>>33812027
>>33811943
Fucking morons

My friend downloaded Crysis and started playing it... Ten minutes later, he got a call from EA.

Who woulda thought they'd actually do anything.

some isps care and some seem to not give a fuck.

if you are in the UK Virgin media are fucking assholes for this sort of shit.

>>33812124
>you most likely got caught by some hired (by Ubisoft) anti-pirate leech on a torrent
There any way to identify that?

ok, what about rapidshares = never caught?

Nope. Funny thing is, is that I've pirated well over 20 games, and for about 4 days in a week a while back I pirated well over 2,000 songs, adobe photoshop, and a few movies.

It's some local ISP provider who lives in this shit hole of a town with a population of <800.

Love my fucking ISP.

>>33812257

Was it to thank him for playing that pile of shit?

and this why I prefer direct downloading

>>33812325
Rapidshares are easier to spot than torrents.

>>33810871
>fucking ghost
This. I pirate the shit on my university's network and have never had a reprimand. Scarily though, a guy who lived in my block at uni got reprimanded by the uni for torrenting Fallout 3, which I had also done but I wasn't detected. Another friend got done for downloading roms of Zelda games on GBC. Everyone around me at uni was getting done for pirating except me. I'm either watched over by a higher power or they're closing in on my activities.

Got two from Comcast. One for Starcraft and I forget the other. I called them back to give a bullshit story about how it was a mistake, and the guy tells me the system is automated and nobody actually gives a damn there. Never stopped pirating since.

>>33812338

agreed. smaller isps dont have the man power and/or just dont fucking care. they cant afford to loose customers.

also once its known that an isp is shitty towards ppl pirating on any scale ppl start to jump ship. I know I would never sign up to an isp that was well known for this sort of shit.

I live in Canada and I have downloaded over 600 games, if I ever get a letter in the mail I will take a shit on it and mail it right back.

i got one, over some shitty movie i was downloading for my dad which i didn't even get halfway through downloading. i lol'd and haven't changed any behavior at all.