hey just a heads up.. i know we are all law abiding downloaders, but seems like it may not be wise to use utorrent anymore for any type of illegal downloads due to the owner of utorrent being sympathetic to the mpaa and such....
here's something i stumbled across on another forum:
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I have no "official" source, but I've been putting pieces together. Someone on a message board I frequent said he d/l'd Borat. The next day he got an email from Comcast saying they knew he broke the law. I would send a link, but the thread got modded (for talk about an illegal d/l site... BULLSHIT!). Fortunately, I have it in my browser, so here you go...
Anyway, last weekend I was pretty buzzed, had some friends over, and I decided to download Borat. This was the first time I have ever downloaded a movie. This was on TorrentSpy...
Anyway, I received this in my e-mail today:
"Notice of Action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Comcast has received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made on or over Comcast's High-Speed Internet service (the 'Service'). The copyrightowner has identified the Internet Protocol ('IP') address associated w ith your Service account at the time as the source of the infringing works. The works identified by the copyright owner in its notification are listed below. Comcast reminds you that use of the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner that constitutes an infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy and may result in the suspension or termination of your Service account.
If you have any questions regarding this notice, you may direct them to Comcast in writing by sending a letter or e-mail to:
For more information regarding Comcast's copyright infringement policy, procedures, and contact information, please read our Acceptable Use Policy by clicking on the Terms of Service l ink at http://www.comcast.net.
Sincerely, Comcast Legal Response Center
Copyright work(s) identified in the notification of claimed infringement:
Notice ID: 123833
Asset: Borat DVD Protocol: BitTorrent IP Address: 24.13.195.160 DNS: c-24-13-195-160.hsd1.il.comcast.net File Name: Borat_The_Movie_2006_DVDrip.avi File Size: 733282304 Timestamp: 30 Jan 2007 05:22:34 GMT Last Seen Date: 30 Jan 2007 05:22:34 GMT URL: http://tracker.to:2710/46adb0536ded9d8d ... d/announce Username (if available): "
Soooo, upon further research, "BitTorrent" created by Bram Cohen, recently purchased the protocol, utorrent. IDK how or what or why, but apparently, he works with MPAA (collects checks from them somehow). Maybe it's because torrentspy is a "public" tracker, IDK. But I think something very suspicious is going on. The forums say to block something in utorrent that "should" not allow your IP to be tracked, but I'm not too sure about it.
If you can find anything, or figure something out, let me know. But I just wanted to give a heads up. Someone, MIGHT, be watching!
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