Serious User Warning
 

Beware!

The MPAA (Motion Picture Assoc.), being represented by Loeb & Loeb, are attaining IP's in waves of 100 at a time.
They have permission from a Federal Court to get your personal information from your service provider, which WILL give it up, i.e. your name and address.
They will then send you a package listing your offense (what movie/movies you were sharing or downloading when your IP was observed).
Your name will also appear in a lawsuit.
When you contact them they will offer to settle for $2000 per offense.
When you settle,which you will, you can pay $200 per month for 10 month's.
Trust me.
My first payment goes out Monday.
The time span is about 3 weeks.It happen's quick.

In case you are wondering, at the time i was busted, i was only using Limewire.

Play at your own risk.

Peace

Uhhuh, this has been going on for years, ever since Napster. Nothing new. They have your IP address as soon as you login to download or are you so new you didnt know that? Dont preach about it, its already been said. YOU USE it at your own risk, IVE been using P2P for years. what a waste of space this topic is. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:











cheers.

Did i say i was unaware this could happen?.
I don't believe i did.
This is just a CURRENT warning to user's alittle less enlightened than yourself, being the all- knowing expert you are.

How many files did they get you for and how many files do you share through your Limewire....

They got me for one thankfully.
In the first package they sent the offenses of the other 99 in my wave.One i saw had 16 movies.Poor fella.

I love Limewire but i no longer use it.I use other means.

As Sphinx said this topic has been discussed before...But I haven't ever spoken to someone who actually got busted.....
So were you only sharing the one file????

I'm sure it has.
I just wanted to give some first-hand knowledge.
I was sharing many files, just one movie.
They don't specify if you were uploading or downloading, so i'm not sure when it happened.
But they do refer to your "so-called "Shared" files".

Your cool mate ;) ...May I ask were your from??

Houston, Texas

So if you decided not to pay and go to court what would of been the outcome????

They said the suit would be filled in your local Federal Court.
MPAA vs. Me
The Court is allowed under the law to award the Plantiff $750 - $150,000 per offense.
Too risky and not a chance in hell.

Bloody Hell....
Thanks for the insight...
You also said that you were using a different method now, may I ask what that is???;)

Glad i could help.

Thank's for your time and greeting's to the Down Under.

I don't think anything is safe but i'll take my chances.
I use torrent.

Cheers ;)

I would have sent a letter back asking them to prove the file listed was actually their movie, not a video of you expressing your review of the said movie, that you had tittled with the same name, and to prove that they had downloaded it only from you, and was not mostly downloaded from somewhere else.

Once they had done that I would have then told em "dont lknow what your talking about", the IP address they quoted is actually a 24 port router, that you onsell your internet bandwidth from.

Then again it is easy to spout when it is not you facing the bums eh?

There have been a couple of interesting threads on the subject recently

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ighlight=court

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ght=bittorrent

I understand that the MPAA and the RIAA in the USA have some very intimidating means of scaring the hell out of people so that they bend over and pay up.

I have no idea as to the legality of sending this sort of letter, but I'm sure a good lawer could rip the thing apart .. the trouble is that that would cost a lot of money.

Torrent afaics is no more safe than Limewire..


As you can see, no one has all the definitive facts, and I would ask you to do one thing before you do anything rash, which is to check that this correspondence is genuine.

One poor person was scared to death by threatening letters ..removed all incriminating files from his computer and found that, in fact, a "friend" had sent the letter through a website that specializes in sending spoof e-mails.

To anyone who says "what a waste of space this topic is" ... I would say they are wrong .. If any thread answers all the questions, it can then be stickied and the subject closed ... not yet I think :)

I concur with HOBO....any user expressing and utilizing an opinion on these forums is not a waste of time or space. The waste would be when older users ridicule newbies to the point newbies no longer come to these forums and these forums are no longer used. THAT is the waste. There are times we, the older ones, do get a little aggravated with older postings being rehashed as new or what we may perceive as a "stupid" question, but then, .....ain't free speech wonderful. Something else just as wonderful is the freedom not to answer or continue a convo.:p

D*mn I missed this place.

Don't kick holes in the lifeboat.:D

Thank's for your support guy's.

I would also agree for other's to beware of scam's and to retain a lawyer before sending any money.
I had a lawyer check into this for me.He agreed i should settle.Unfortunately my case is very real.
Being a user of P2P for many years i know their case has major holes in it.I'm sure i could win if i had the unlimited fund's they have.But i don't, so i can't.

I have never liked forum's precisely because of the first response to my post.The urge to belittle other's is too much for some people.

If just one person does not get caught up in the MPAA's sting because they read my post and decided not to participate that day, then the purpose of my post has been served.

Long live Limewire and p2p and good luck to all.

I have read in previous threads of software that can keep you safe and hide your IP address...

Maybe someone could post the links here (as I cant recall them all)....And Id like to install them myself lol....;)

Well, if you use browser from www.vmware.com that should do it...

~Polly

Your link doesn't work....

Didn't work for me either. You might want to check out the link below I have tried them and they are not very user friendly but they do work not very fast though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P

There was aslo a thread a few days ago
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=53659

apostibo, I'm not saying that your case is a scam:)

I didn't take it as that birdy, i was agreeing with you.

Another reason for my post is i did not see this subject as a "Sticky" post.It seem's the issue of how people can protect themselves would be at the forefront on Limewire, as it seem's to be relevent to the future of Limewire.Unless there is a legality preventing Limewire from doing so that i don't know about.

I believe the popularity of Limewire is in large part due to the integrity of site.Taking a bigger part in helping other's protect themselves would only bolster that integrity.

I understand the issue has been acknowledged and remedies have been posted but they are in buried threads.Would it be too much to put it up front, something that can't be missed?.

I can't express enough how i'm in no way slamming Limewire.As a grown adult i take 100% responsibility for my action's.I applaud the people at Limewire and wish them the best of luck.My only intention is to help others.

I fixed it...works now