I always got very amused when i got these letters... the stuff they claimed my IP had downloaded, was definitely not downloaded on my network.
rotating IP addresses made the warnings pointless.
rotating IP addresses made the warnings pointless.
Your ISP knows which IP you have and when.
RIPE makes it basically mandatory to use dhcp in order to recive ip space, even though in most places it is completely useless since 2010, you save maybe 5% because literally nobody turns off their routers
also of course because there is no ip space now, admins put small lease times like 1 hour, or sometimes even less, so you have constant influx of logs and updates
i can imagine those scripts are buggy, misread timestamps and etc
This is for all sorts of legal requests they might get.
in practice it maybe a good thing that mistakes are made
If you put a trivially guessable password are you still liable? Are there still exploits for wireless encryption?
Kind of crazy that there isn't a huge burden of proof required by the accuser.
For example, I asked what happens if you ignore Comcast's Bittorrent warning and someone else on HN said they do indeed terminate your account.
Maybe playing dumb doesn't get you off the hook. Or it reveals you as a dumb helpless open relay. The most I can imagine Comcast doing if you responded to them would be sending over a technician to reset your router password.
Wait, what?? If I want to cancel comcast I should just install bittorrent , and I don't have to negotiate the hassle of cancelling over the phone?
Sometimes the fee can be the remaining service fee - so for a $150/month 24 month plan that's a whopping $3600!