Anyone got in trouble for piracy?

[Tigerstar]

If you know the right forums to read, my ISP actually warns its users ahead of time what companies have been contacting them about illegal downloaders, therefore giving everyone a chance to avoid or stop downloading certain things and thus minimise the risk. Which I think is jolly decent of them. Plus they don't throttle or port block, and give you clearly-defined (and generous) download allowances which you can check from day-to-day on their site.

 

[Agjsdfd]

Nah...
Besides Anime/Hentai I dont have anything downloaded from the net.
I mostly buy music.
And the only pirated software I use is Zone Alarm Security

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[tomqman]

got my school computer account banned for having a few movies on there and about 300gba roms

and about 6 series of south park the funny thing is that they didnt delete any of it.(told teachers that i was being bullied and people was going on porn on my account. so they unblocked it lol)

 

[superrob]

I just download games and so on with my laptop on my schools awesome connection

 

[moozxy]

I once got into trouble for pillaging my neighbouring village and raping their women

 

[Awdofgum]

My school is retarded, they got all pissed off at me for turning automatic updates on. I got caught using a proxy one time and they weren't too happy but i talked my way out of it.
Oh and if there's someone on their email an alarm goes off and some lady comes running in like someone's got a weapon, it's pretty crazy.

But anyways, i've never heard of someone getting arrested for pirating, but i saw someone steal a DVD before, lol the FBI says it's the same thing.

 

[XodiacMt]

Hm, well im over in Canada, so thats a no.

I probably wont get in trouble for piracy for a very long time to come.

 

[coolbho3000]

A lot of my friends torrent/usenet on my school's 80mbit+ connection. Absolutely awesome when there is no load, but I have no external HDD to transfer files and the Emacs there don't have any DVD burner

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[amazingnoob]

My isp only emailed/called me because one of my many computers has a "virus".
Other than that, they leave me alone (and I never got in trouble for pirating)

 

[Artheido]

Everyone I know in school does it (that's about 60%) and none of them got in trouble.

Well... One of them has a brother who got caught. He was warned at first, then suspended and finally they came to his house and cleaned his hard drive with a fine. I was like 'wtf?!' but apparently it was part of the ISPs contract.

I also heard the warn/suspend/ban thing for piracy is turning/ has turned into law. Read it somewhere in BBC News.

 

[Bob Evil]

All they ever do in the UK is confiscate/delete and/or fine ... maybe some community service ... if someone gets jail time, it's for something else, that they turned up at/around the same time.

If someone claims that they, or someone they know, in the UK, got jail time for piracy, they are lying ... they just don't want to admit what they got busted for, on the side lol ... usually it's working and signing on, or porn.

 

[Harpuia]

Nothing. I've downloaded hundreds of gigs of stuff, and all I can say is I am a cheapass pirate! Woot.

My parents don't care about it.

 

[drock360]

I have never gotten any emails for piracy. I usually just use rapidshare for all my downloads though.

 

[Chief_Second]

in england there's no legislation to encourage isp's to give a shit - they don't lose out by not cracking down on illegal downloaders.

there's also no english legal definition of copyright material download as when you go on 'www.bbc.com' for example you're effectively downloading copyright material through the browser onto pc for viewing sites.

my advice, keep it modest ad there's no problem - take the piss and there all over us

 

[Defiance]

So I'm the only one whose life sucks?

 

[Awdofgum]

So I'm the only one whose life sucks?

What the hell did you do?
lol did you advertise that you were selling pirated software/movies/games?

 

[Defiance]

So I'm the only one whose life sucks?

What the hell did you do?
lol did you advertise that you were selling pirated software/movies/games?

TOTALLY!!!... No.

Uh, I'll try and find it.

Here it is!

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=69553&st=60
Scroll down.

 

[rudedoggx]

I got a C&D notice from Comcast, that scared me off for good.

 

[tinymonkeyt]

sorry for being a complete noob
but whats a C&D?

 

[Bob Evil]

Cease & Desist : a fancy way of saying 'Stop'.