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check out this email i recieved:

Dear Internet Access Subscriber:

Charter Communications ("Charter") has been notified by a copyright owner that your Internet account has been involved in the exchange of unauthorized copies of copyrighted material (music, movies, or software). We are enclosing a copy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice that Charter received from the copyright holder.

It is possible that this activity has occurred without your permission or knowledge by an unauthorized user, a minor who may not fully understand the copyright laws, or even as a result of a computer virus. However, as a Charter Internet account owner, you can be held liable for this activity.

As a personal computer owner and a user of the Internet, we ask that you be aware of the following: Violations of federal Copyright law can result in civil and/or criminal liability, including payment of monetary damages, costs and attorneys' fees to the copyright owner. See 17 U.S.C. §§ 504-506. In addition, Charter's Acceptable Use Policy explicitly prohibits copyright infringement by Charter High-Speed Internet users. Specifically, Section 3 states:

NO COPYRIGHT OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT
Customer will not use, nor allow others to use, the Service to send or receive any information which infringes the patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets or proprietary rights of any other person or entity. This includes, but is not limited to, digitization of music, movies, photographs or other copyrighted materials or software.

Charter is registered under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA). Under the DMCA, copyright owners have the right to notify Charter if they believe that a Charter customer has infringed the copyright owner's work(s). If Charter receives a notice from a copyright owner alleging any Customer has committed copyright infringement, Charter will notify the Customer of the alleged infringement. If Charter receives more than one notice alleging copyright infringement on Customer's part, Customer may be deemed a "repeat copyright infringer." Charter reserves the right to terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers.

We ask that you take immediate action to remove the infringing material from your computer and stop its exchange. If Charter continues to receive DMCA notices regarding your account, or if you violate any other clause of Charter's Acceptable Use Policy, we will have no choice but to terminate your account. You may view Charter's rules and policies at http://www.chartercom.com/site/rules.asp.

If you need assistance in removing the referenced infringing material, please refer to http://support.charter.com/sdcuser/asp/SubpoenaUpdate.htm.

If you have any questions about this matter, please contact us at 1-866-229-7286. Representatives will be available Monday through Friday, 8am - 12am (EST), Saturday, 8am - 5pm (EST) and Sunday, 12pm - 5pm (EST), to take your call.


Sincerely,

Charter High-Speed Internet Security Team http://security.charter.com

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Charter Communications, Inc.
12405 Powerscourt Drive
St. Louis, MO 63131 US


RE: Unauthorized Distribution of the following copyrighted computer program(s):

Autodesk 3D Studio

Dear Sir/Madam:

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has determined that the connection listed below, which appears to be using an Internet account under your control, is using a BitTorrent network to offer unlicensed copies of copyrighted computer programs published by the BSA's member companies.

Site Details:
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Date Found: 26 Apr 2005 05:26:23 EDT (GMT -0400)
Network: BTPeers
IP Address: 68.185.68.222
IP Port: 30203
Protocol: BitTorrent
UserName:

Content being offered:
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Filename: Discreet%203ds%20max%207%20English%20%28full%29.rar.torrentDiscreet 3ds max 7 English (full).rar
Filesize: 486,984k


The above computer program(s) is/are being made available for copying, through downloading, at the above location without authorization from the copyright owner(s).

Based upon BSA's representation of the copyright owners in anti-piracy matters, we have a good faith belief that none of the materials or activities listed above have been authorized by the rightholders, their agents, or the law. BSA represents that the information in this notification is accurate and states, under penalty of perjury, that it is authorized to act in this matter on behalf of the copyright owners listed above.

We are giving notice of these activities pursuant to Section 512 of Title 17 of the U.S. Code (as enacted by the 'Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act'). We expect that you will take expeditious action to remove or disable access to the materials described above, and thereby prevent the illegal reproduction and distribution of pirated software via your company's network. As you know, illegal on-line activities can result in 50 million people on the Internet accessing and downloading a copyrighted product worldwide without authorization - a highly damaging activity for the copyright holder.

We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Please advise us regarding what actions you take.

Please include the following CaseID in any response you send: Case ID 58147698.

Yours sincerely,


John R. Wolfe
Manager of Investigations
Business Software Alliance
1150 18th St NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
URL: http://www.bsa.org
E-mail: X

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[|DRC| Marblecake]

Tell them to go fuck off. Also print and frame that email.
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[|DRC| Wartex]

There is no BSA in the ukraine. Yep, they can suck my now-Canadian dick.
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[|DRC| Syntax]

Spotted through the torrent? Weird.....Hum...well just to be an asshole, I'd make a little site somewhere or something and put that file up for download. ...then when I got out of Federal Prison...and paid off the fines...I'd do it again!


Ha........but otherwise, I'd go with Marble's Suggestion...
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[|DRC| psycheus]

I've recently heard about this and some of the broadband companies are actually sticking up for the customer privacy (and charter isn't one of them).

Here's an article about Verizon loosing in court over protecting the customers identity.

news.com wrote:

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At issue in the RIAA's request is section 512 of the DMCA, which permits a copyright owner to send a subpoena ordering a "service provider" to turn over information about a subscriber. The service provider must promptly comply with that order, and no judge's approval is required first.

When challenging the subpoena, Verizon said that section 512 does not apply to ISPs that are merely conduits for peer-to-peer users and which are not hosting potentially infringing material on their own servers. Bates rejected that argument, saying that "the court concludes that the subpoena authority of section 512 applies to all service providers within the coverage of the act, including Verizon."

A dozen consumer and privacy groups in August filed an amicus brief siding with Verizon and arguing that section 512 of the DMCA is unconstitutional. Their brief said the law violated Americans' rights to be anonymous online: "Purported copyright owners should not have the right to violate protected, anonymous speech with what amounts to a single snap of the fingers."

Link to article

news.com wrote:

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A dozen consumer and privacy groups filed an amicus brief in federal court here arguing that the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) request for information about a Verizon Communications subscriber should be denied. Verizon has opposed the request on procedural grounds.

The 30-page brief says the RIAA is relying on a portion of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act that violates Americans' right to be anonymous online. "Purported copyright owners should not have the right to violate protected, anonymous speech with what amounts to a single snap of the fingers," the brief said.

Groups signing the brief include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Alert, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and National Consumers League.

Until now, the entertainment industry has relied on civil lawsuits aimed at corporations, not individuals, to limit widespread copyright infringement on peer-to-peer networks. Now, however, the RIAA is revising its strategy and appears ready to sue individuals swapping songs over the Internet.

Link to article

Some scary shit!

[|DRC| Wartex]

PWNT by ISP