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Rogers ISP Tracking Illiegal Downloads?

Hey iv been downloading games movies etc for a long time now from isohunt.com and once i called them and asked if it was illegal to download and they said NO. now latley we have changed our modem to a surfboard 5B5100. OKAY HERES PROBLEM: I downloaded PSP GTA Liberty city stories EUR from isohunt and then got a message from rogers then later on my crysis woulnt work cause the cds scratched so i download it from isohunt and i get a secound notice. IS Rogers using SPYWARE ON MY COMPUTER? or the new modem sending used torrents to them. Heres One they sent: Rogers Cable (Rogers) has received a notice stating that activitiesassociated with your IP address are infringing copyright in material(s)owned or exclusively licensed by others. The full notice is appended to this e-mail below. Under section 4(d) of the Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet End User Agreement(EUA) and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), you are prohibited from using theRogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet service to engage in illegal activities,including activities that infringe copyright. Copies of our EUA and AUP areavailable at: http://na.edit.client.yahoo.com/rogers/show_static?.form=terms&.intl=ca Where there has been a violation of our EUA and/or AUP, including theunauthorized distribution of copyright-protected material, Rogers has theright to take appropriate action against you. If you have any questions about the attached copyright notice, pleasecontact the sender of the notice using the contact information provided inthe notice. Please do not reply to this e-mail. We trust you will comply with our policies and all applicable laws in usingthe Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet service. Rogers EUA Management TeamSincerely, EUA Management TeamRogers Yahoo Hi-Speed Internet http://info.yahoo.com/legal/ca/rogers/terms/all/00964317 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1 Entertainment Software Association575 7th Street, NW, Suite 300Washington, DC 20004 USA Attention: Intellectual Property EnforcementTelephone: 202-223-2400E-mail:mailto:esa@copyright-compliance.com?subject=RE%3A%20Notice%20ID%3A%20182%2D80415185%20ESA%20Canada%20Notice 13 Feb 2009 01:31:13 GMT ISP: Rogers Cable Communications Inc.ESA Reference Number: 182-80415185 Dear Rogers Cable Communications Inc.: The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is a trade association thatrepresents the intellectual property interests of numerous companies thatpublish interactive games for video game consoles, personal computers,handheld devices and the Internet in the United States of America, inCanada, and in other countries (collectively referred to as ESA members).ESA is authorized to act on behalf ofESA members whose copyright and otherintellectual property rights it believes to be infringed as describedherein. ESA is providing this letter of notification to make Rogers CableCommunications Inc. aware of material on its network or system thatinfringes the exclusive copyright rights of and is unlawful towards one ormore ESA members. ESA members are entitled to the full protection of Canadian intellectualproperty laws, including the Copyright Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42, asamended, in such entertainment software products. Based on the information at its disposal on 10 Feb 2009 23:13:30 GMT, ESAhas a good faith belief that 99.253.233.105 infringes the rights of one ormore ESA members by offering for sale or download unauthorized copies ofgame products protected by copyright, or offering for sale or downloadmaterial that is the subject of infringing activities. The copyrightedworks that have been infringed include but are not limited to: Title: CrysisNotice ID: 80415185Infringement Source: BitTorrentInfringement Timestamp: 10 Feb 2009 23:13:30 GMTInfringement Last Documented: 11 Feb 2009 23:26:47 GMTInfringer Username:Infringing Filename: Crysis.Warhead.Multi-11.Full-Rip.SkullpturaInfringing Filesize: 3989009685Infringer IP Address: 99.253.233.105Infringer DNS Name: CPE000f3d4f4031-CM0011aea51c5a.cpe.net.cable.rogers.comInfringer Port ID: 0 The unauthorized copies of such game product(s) or the material that is thesubject of infringing activities appears on or is made available through99.253.233.105. Those items are listed and/or identified thereon by theirtitles or variations thereof, game-related listings/references/descriptions,or depictions of game-related artwork. Such copies, titles, game-relatedlistings/references/descriptions, depictions, and material that is thesubject of infringing activities, are hereinafter referred to as "InfringingMaterial." Accordingly, ESA hereby requests Rogers Cable Communications Inc. toimmediately do the following: 1. Notify the account holder of the Infringing Material.2. Remove, or disable access to, the Infringing Material detailed above.3. Take appropriate action against the account holder under your AbusePolicy/Terms of Service Agreement, including termination of a repeatoffender. Please inform us whether you will remove or disable access to theInfr Something funny is that most stuff i download is already what i have but scratched or lost. IM using REAL cd keys WHY AM I BEING TARGETED? what about the person(S) that are distributing it? another thing i live in new brunswick canada and will they press charges? i mean money? if so whats the cost? AND its not like im downloading and selling.

Public Comments

1. That's the risk you take when you break the law; getting caught. Don't be so paranoid. Rogers may be a behemoth, but they're not going to do something as stupid (and illegal) as spying on you. (They have Cisco Systems for that amirite?) Just stop pirating stuff. It says that repeat offenders are the ones who ought to be scared. It's not like your IP address is private or anything. Some bot client in the swarm owned by a watchdog group saw your IP and reported it. That's all. No shady business beyond that. And yes, I'm aware that hiring third party `headhunters`, as it were, could be construed as `shady business` by some people. EDIT: Also, if you're a pirate, it would behoove you not to be so blazen about it. Why, for instance, would you loudly declare that you've pirated some GTA game when that's not even what the notice is for? You're just piling on the charges there, posting that several lines away from your IP address. You've admitted your guilt to a second, isolated and unrelated, crime; in writing, no less. EDIT2: It's not really that you're being targeted; it's just that you're the unlucky one. As for whether or not they will press charges, they will not at the present time. The worst that will likely happen, even if you keep it up, will be that Rogers will terminate your service. Afterwards, it's up to the copyright holder to decide whether they want to sue you or not. And yes, if they do, in fact, decide to sue you, then it doesn't matter what country the copyright was issued in or what country you live in; hence `international` copyright.
2. YES... the law has given ISP's the right to help aide in the fight against illegal downloads... but they only have the right to flag those files that have already been copyrighted (i.e. mp3's, movies, etc...), not personal files...(i.e. family pictures, emails, etc...). I don't like it either, but it is the new law..... but it is up to the individual ISP's as whether to participate in the program, or not. Rogers may or may not participate... but they certainly have the right to... BE CAREFUL !!!