Canada not so safe?


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I just received an email from my isp (Sympatico) telling me that I was providing some illigal software over the edonkey network. They told me the file, port and network I was using and told me that if i continued to make this file available they may suspend my internet.

www.bsa.org was the company that contacted my isp.

I thought that in canada we were still safe from this stuff but I guess not.

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you see..sharing and downloadin are very diff in canada..you can download...but not share...but im shocked...i got bell as well..i guess i dont share that much junk for them to contact me...but again..they cant do much..so don worry.

double check ur contract and user agreement..im not sure they have anythin about piravy and terminating service.

Yup. I have gotten two emails about downloading movies off bittorrent by my ISP, and they say that they were told by "another source" of the activity and that I should stop doing it and that they, by law, can't give out my personal info without going to court.

In the USA, you would have a lawsuit on your hands already, in Canada it is safe you just get warnings and you have to be smart. You ARE ALLOWED TO DOWNLOAD, but with things like eDonkey and BitTorrent, you HAVE TO UPLOAD TOO, and that IS ILLEGAL in Canada.

That is why mIRC is a good tool, because you don't have to upload.

yeah I made a bad choice on my part.

I had to do a programming assignment for physics class and my partner wanted to use flash and I wanted to use java. I went allong with his idea of using flash.

Bad idea :(

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could have asked him for it... :whistle: :ninja:

....or not. :pinch: :p

Scary.

My friend works at Bell and he said that they received a call from a representative of the MPAA asking the coordinations of an ip adress so they could contact the individual who obviously shared movies thru a network which makes it easy to track down AHEM bittorrent.

So I guess he's right, some companies now do seem fedup about this problem.

It's the same in the USA, they bust you for uploading not downloading. I was busted about a year ago (thread about it here on Neowin), my isp, Cableone, told me that if I didn't comply with the letter I recieved they would cut my service. The lady also told me to just do as they say, remove the file, and sign a email like form saying I have removed said file and my service would be turned on in 24 hours. if they got another email from them my service would be turned off forever with thier Company. Then she told me that it's not what you download but what is uploading from you, so watch what you allow to be uploaded. So I now have only one folder shared, it only contains wallpaper in jpg format that isn't copyrighted.

Cody

That is why mIRC is a good tool, because you don't have to upload.

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why take without giving back? those are the kind of people that make file-sharing weak. my music uploads are somewhere 1-2 gigs every couple days and i do it without fear. first for the reason that i don't share billboard or pop music that the riaa is even looking for. thats my way of fighting back against the riaa, i don't download or buy any music by any band supported by them. the other reason why is because my isp telus just doesn't give a crap. my town has no caps on download/uploading, and there hasnt been any since dsl was put in 4 years ago.

It is very unlikely that they can do anything besides get your internet cut off. Canadian privacy law forbids MPAA/RIAA to get any information about you. So if they do decided to sue you, all the evidence they have against you becomes garbage due to them violating privacy laws.

I just received an email from my isp (Sympatico) telling me that I was providing some illigal software over the edonkey network. They told me the file, port and network I was using and told me that if i continued to make this file available they may suspend my internet.

www.bsa.org was the company that contacted my isp.

I thought that in canada we were still safe from this stuff but I guess not.

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someone can tell me how ISPs can find the filename we sharing?

isp log on the p2p network, find the user ip address and request his share list?

this is much trouble! automated tracking? spy camera in your room? :)

More and more isp's are going to cut service for things like this as it will help them stop just a few people that use the marority of bandwith downloading and uploading movies, music and software. I'm sure Cableone would increase it's overall speed if it stopped all this kind of activity. So far we don't have any caps but I've been expecting it.

Cody

it said everything

Date Found: 20 Jan 2005 17:41:57 EST (GMT -0500)

Network: eDonkey

IP Address: 70.48.14.**

IP Port: 51***

Protocol: eDonkey

UserName:

Content being offered:

Filename: Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional (2).iso

Filesize: 668,192k

funny they didn't know my username on the network. I was using shareaza and I have a username set in it.

it said everything

funny they didn't know my username on the network. I was using shareaza and I have a username set in it.

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Yeah, the letter I got had time, what folder it was in and name of the file and size.

Cody

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