"big brother"

[nezzer]

I use Time Warners Road Runner Cable Service in S. Western Ohio to access the Internet. On March 14th (2 hours before I posted this), I received a call from Time Warner Services. They informed me that the MPAA had contacted them about certain movies I had downloaded (Dogma, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and I found out LOTR even though I never had it) and (apparently) requested them to contact me. The service person on the other end of the line politey suggested that I stop downloading movies. During the conversation, I also found out that the MPAA had gotten my ip address or whatever by monitoring bearshare and the gnutella networks. After Morpheus went down, I started using other p 2 p clients, Dogma and Hedwig were the only 2 movies I downloaded from Bearshare before getting rid of it. Apparently, some movies are "marled" or something. The whole point is that someone or some organization was able to monitor the internet and eventually deliver a warning message (even though it was in a round about way). Kind of Scary isn't it. Well, there are the FACTS, let me know you're opinions.

Michael Knez