One word, USENET aka newsgroups Untraceable, fast, and cheap. www.giganews.com www.newshosting.com and a newsreader is your ticket to everything anonomously. - --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ryan Wright" <ryanpwright@...> wrote: > > On 3/15/06, Andrew <yahoo@...> wrote: > > > > Do you have any evidence that law enforcement has ever monitored > > Bittorrent, and in particular for simple copyright violations? Sounds > > like FUD to me. > > Not law enforcement, but copyright holders do. I was warned by my ISP > after they received a complaint from the copyright holder - for > downloading episodes of Stargate Atlantis, of all things. They > broadcast it over public airspace and I'm free to capture it that way, > but if I capture it via the Internet I'm a bad person? What's the > freaking difference? > > Anyway, I was told if they receive another complaint, my Internet > access will be disabled permanently. This is from Charter Cable, FWIW. > I recommend not using bittorrent to download materials such as this if > you don't want someone giving you a hard time sooner or later. It's > way too open, anyone can logon to a tracker and get the IP addresses > of everyone connected. > > The Stargate Atlantis people could have just as easily filed a lawsuit > against me had they wanted to. > > -Ryan > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/