Comments on: Poll: How Would You Respond to an RIAA/MPAA Warning?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:47:55 +0000

We’ve got one from our ISP in the UK alledging we seeded a nintendo ds game… and demanding that we remove it immediately. The ISP have sent us a link attached to the email on how to secure our network :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:27:24 +0000

Frankly, I would not want to risk getting cut off from the internet. I would stop sharing music, except maybe occasionally lending an album to a friend. I would just buy my music. I mean, honestly, it’s not that expensive. My problem is that the record companies take all the money. If the artist actually got 10 bucks per CD, I would buy all my music twice over.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:20:40 +0000

The business model that the industry is clinging to is dead. It is only a matter of time before they collapse. I would like to see the artists market and sell their work directly. The prices will come down and the compensation for the creative work will go up. The quality of the content will go up as it won’t be skewed by the deals made by the industry. There won’t be a single executive pushing the crappy new song. That will be nice.

I hate the MPAA/RIAA as much as anybody. Completely ignoring the legalities of all of the different jurisdictions, the morality of taking something that is someone else’s just isn’t right. I don’t understand how anyone above the age of 5 can’t understand the idea of ownership and rights. At 5 years old anyone knows that when another kid takes your stuff it isn’t right. Simple. Just because I have a gun doesn’t make it acceptable to use it to steal anything from the gas station down the street. Just because I have a fast download speed with my ISP doesn’t make it acceptable to take the creative works someone else owns the rights to.

I like the suggestion I read above. Boycott them and they will go away. Buy from the artists that will sell direct. Your money will speak for you and it will make the change happen.

By: pirate

pirate — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:13:03 +0000

i havent noticed a warning, because i dont check the email my isp sends me, but a friend of mine received an email after he downloaded ‘zoolander’ from a 3rd party (not his isp or the MPAA) and told him that if he didnt stop there would be penalties, blah blah.
point being, i’m in Canada, so currently there’s not a comprehensive law that has been passed yet that would make this criminal, but being in canada he could easily be sued. Fact is, in order to get that email at all would require the isp’s co-operation (bell canada). I’m using a vpn now because of this, but bell is using things like DPI and other techniques to throttle torrenting, i have to admit that the big guys are getting better at seeking, identifying and tracking content sharing :S

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:03:50 +0000

I got a C&D letter for sharing HBO shows.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:26 +0000

Considering I’ve gotten a warning, (Not from MPAA or RIAA) from BayTSP, I can truthfully answer this. I would certainly continue on downloading, but with more caution.

By: Mr. Briggs

Mr. Briggs — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:44:17 +0000

Zeke129: Ditto.

Of course, this is assuming I’m 18 and have access to a credit card… by then, I’d probably buy anything that cost less than $0.60 per unit anyway.

By: telstra

telstra — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:22:44 +0000

Counter sue them in court of record (common law.) There aren’t statutes in common law.

By: Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:34:40 +0000

I got a couple warnings. I responded and told them to fuck off. I give them far to much money for them to try and tell me what I can and can’t do.

By: infowarrioruk

infowarrioruk — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:19:19 +0000

framed and nailed it ont the frontroom wall

By: WHATTHEHELL

WHATTHEHELL — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:28 +0000

I’m already using VPN..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:42:26 +0000

I would sue for libel in small claims for something around $300. A corporation must be represented by council, it’s cheaper for them to cede the case than to show up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:27:46 +0000

SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL
more like shooting fish in the pacific ocean.

By: john k

john k — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:41:54 +0000

I would explain that I am free to leave my wireless connection broadcasting without password enabled and do. That anyone within proximity may be performing this “illegal” action. The entities that seek action will need to hire round the clock surveillance of my apartments to determine who is logging onto my preferred wide open network and then obtain their identity. They will need to monitor all my neighbors by installing cams in their domiciles(hope they don’t have privacy screens or something else that could prove helpful in their nefarious schemes), people in vans(free candy’ers are always up to no good). They would never act outside the law (like when they analyzed my network traffic, so they will need a warrant. Unfortunately, no judge will give them one since it violates the privacy act and is a waste of time.

By: James

James — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:28:19 +0000

I would reply to the letter,

“to whom it may concern,
I have no idea what you are talking about. And if you send me a letter again of these false accusation’s it better be accompanied with evidence and punishable by a court of law. If it is not punishable by a court of law. the F’ off :).”

I would be curious to see if they would. and If they did reply I would scrutinize every detail of the evidence submitted and post it on the internet. But I bet they don’t keep all the data. I’m sure they rely mostly on the scare tactics. Like a poker game, I think they bluff more often then not.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:25:16 +0000

For enyone who recieves a letter.

Just goto a site that offers demos that are like 1.5gb and download them again and again :D

That will start eating into ur ISP’s profits lol

By: kaustav

kaustav — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:25:21 +0000

i dont think the mpaa/riaa really care. 221 ppl responded to this poll alone, i dont think those two sad organisation have enough manpower to keep tabs on the several million people in the us alone who use p2p.

its prolly more an automated process.
connect to swarm
find ip and isp
send ip and demand for threatening letter to isp

if i were them, id stop working so hard and spend 3/4 of the funds on
“other stuff”, like buying movies, games and music, cos piracy is bad.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:42:24 +0000

“As someone who actually had my net access shut down because of alleged copyright violation, I’d say all the blowhards saying they’d ignore a takedown are being foolish.”

As an owner of guns I’d say that anyone responsible for sending me a tackdown notice are beeing foolish.

Did foolishness caused the dinosaurs extinction?

By: UltraLeetJ

UltraLeetJ — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:39:37 +0000

I’d ignore it and turn up profits every time I receive another warning. I will make the cost increase as long as the idiot who signs that warning has a higher position on the R**a or m**a . That, and upgrading my connection to a much higher bandwith level so I can share and download things 10 times the usual. I would also demand to those companies to stop acting so stupidly and stop mailing these letters out. THis is another reason why they have been earning less and less, they are wasting money on other ridiculously idiotic procedures–plus, they have robbed musicians long enough! If say, you take the example of Tito Puente’s orchestra (a 21 piece band!) who sold millions and millions… I ahve never heard any of these musicians earned a lot. Other people surely did (you know who you are!) but some of these musicians are retired, switched jobs, out of the music scene, why? because of that same reason–NOT ENOUGH INCOME, and because the industry has been wattering down the music for better marketting (more money for them). HTis is why latin music has been so terribly done. It lacks the energy of its predecesors just because someone decided to use things like sequencers and true artistry is obscured by the booming number of sales, and of course the music suffers a terrible form of degradation. Thanks, music industry. Thanks for making people believe that “dreams come true”, which in reality they become truly ruined. Well aside from this particular illustration, the music industry has lost all of my respect and confidence. At least you can find some good stuff on torrents and other forms of file sharing. And if torrents happen to go away there is always the option of burned cds, digital recorders (though who wants to record the crap that’s on mainstream radio?), rapidshare, msn, skipe, there are countless forms of file sharing or even music and movie sharing. So as long as they try taking or cutting out the internet to share there will always be other ways. Move on and stop being so emo already. Use the brains inside your head (above your neck)–not the lower head….

By: chaircrusher

chaircrusher — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:20:38 +0000

As someone who actually had my net access shut down because of alleged copyright violation, I’d say all the blowhards saying they’d ignore a takedown are being foolish.

If you’re a Mediacom customer, you really have no choice; either you comply or you have to find another supplier of web access. They send you a letter via USPS on first notification of a violation, and if they get a second notification, they cut you off.

To get service restored, you have to sign a paper saying you acknowledge you can have your service terminated if a third notification comes through.

Given that my ’second notification’ happened several days after I made sure that I was not violating anyone’s copyright via Bittorrent, I don’t think that the company that was working for the copyright holder (in this case, HBO) has their shit together.