got a DMCA notice on my vpn account

It's US-based. They wouldn't have bothered if they saw the canuckistani IP behind it.

The irony is that I have the movie on my ziplist (cdn. equiv of a netflix queue), but i was bored on xmas and needed something to watch and my movies didn't arrive before the weekend.

Has anyone else ever gotten a notice?

yeah. got one a year or two ago for a movie that was at least a few years old.

It's the Industry's way of saying "ahhhhhhh we can't keep up with this newfangled technology so we'll ***** about it and get legislation passed for us." As a Canadian you can laugh. For now. Until the US pressures you to adopt similar laws (see: ACTA).

Originally Posted by deadly7

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It's the Industry's way of saying "ahhhhhhh we can't keep up with this newfangled technology so we'll ***** about it and get legislation passed for us." As a Canadian you can laugh. For now. Until the US pressures you to adopt similar laws (see: ACTA).
I actually support their right to go after people (how are they supposed to protect their IP?), but I think it's pretty damned impossible to ever prove anyone downloaded something illegally. An IP address/time is not a person. And it's It's unreasonable to expect average users to know a damned thing about securing access when experts in the field have to spend all their time keeping up with a changing security landscape. If I was a prick i'd just hack my neighbors wifi and never worry about it again. The whole thing is a rather pointless exercise. Even though i'm a canuck, I'm just going to leave my account suspended and get a new vpn service. I don't want to acknowledge in any way that i DLed anything.

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I actually support their right to go after people (how are they supposed to protect their IP?), but I think it's pretty damned impossible to ever prove anyone downloaded something illegally. An IP address/time is not a person. And it's It's unreasonable to expect average users to know a damned thing about securing access when experts in the field have to spend all their time keeping up with a changing security landscape. If I was a prick i'd just hack my neighbors wifi and never worry about it again. The whole thing is a rather pointless exercise.

Even though i'm a canuck, I'm just going to leave my account suspended and get a new vpn service. I don't want to acknowledge in any way that i DLed anything.

Here's a tip to a businessperson: The Internet is here; get used to it. Instead of wasting money funding the RIAA's completely useless litigation or attempting to attack a tiny percentage of filesharers, why not try adapting your business? If I go out and buy a DVD today, I still have to sit through 5 minutes of "The FBI wants to scare you" bullshit, along with often mandatory previews that cannot be fast forwarded. I was watching a DVD yesterday and they don't let you STOP the DVD while that FBI logo is on.
If I download [or rip] the full 8gb disc, do you know what I have to do? Burn it and put it in the DVD player. I can hit "Menu" immediately and watch what the hell I want to watch.

Also, the fees associated with a disc are almost negligible now. For an operation that prints thousands [if not millions] of discs a day, charging what you used to is a stupid idea.

You know what would be nice? If a movie studio recognized that the Internet is here and offered DRM-free downloads of H.264 for a reasonable fee - $2-8 depending on the release. And none of this "10 month release window" bullshit. Otherwise they'll just keep getting pirated and crying to the government to get more laws passed because they don't want to actually try to use the internet.
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If I go out and buy a DVD today, I still have to sit through 5 minutes of "The FBI wants to scare you" bullshit, along with often mandatory previews that cannot be fast forwarded. I was watching a DVD yesterday and they don't let you STOP the DVD while that FBI logo is on.
Dude, you so need AnyDVD. I've used it to strip away the mandatory previews and FBI warnings and all that ****. No idea how enraged I was when I bought Animal House and they expected me to sit through 10 minutes of previews for bullshit stupid ass movies. Also, I've found a lot of the time if my original DVD is damaged and won't play, or is glitchy, cloning it usually clears up the problem. So these days I make copies of the DVDs I buy and watch those to preserve my originals.

GQgeek, can you recommend a good VPN service?

What the heck is a VPN service/account in this context. Do you mean an internet service? Does the ISP encrypt the connection?

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What the heck is a VPN service/account in this context. Do you mean an internet service? Does the ISP encrypt the connection?

In this particular instance it refers to an encrypted tunnel to a network endpoint located somewhere else, a network-level proxy if you will.

Very useful if you get IP-banned from SF , but also for other purposes.

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Dude, you so need AnyDVD. I've used it to strip away the mandatory previews and FBI warnings and all that ****. No idea how enraged I was when I bought Animal House and they expected me to sit through 10 minutes of previews for bullshit stupid ass movies.

Also, I've found a lot of the time if my original DVD is damaged and won't play, or is glitchy, cloning it usually clears up the problem. So these days I make copies of the DVDs I buy and watch those to preserve my originals.

I'm well aware on how to bypass this protection. That wasn't the focus of my post. The focus was "Well, they can QQ, but the Internet is around. Might as well get used to it and actually learn how to adapt your business to it."

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What the heck is a VPN service/account in this context. Do you mean an internet service? Does the ISP encrypt the connection?

I use a vpn because my ISP throttles p2p downloads at like 30KB/s. Since all the packets are encrypted to the tunnel endpoint, they can't do deep packet inspection, and traffic passes through without being throttled.

Also, the vpn lets me have a US ip address, which is useful for some sites that only let americans see certain content.

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GQgeek, can you recommend a good VPN service?

I was using strongvpn for months. Throughput was good and service was cheap. Pretty much any US-based service is gonna have to respond to those DMCA notices, so you may want to look outside the country for a company that can ignore those requests if you're doing a lot of p2p.

The movie industry hasn't made a decision to start suing people like the RIAA yet. They do send out notices but I don't think they've done any mass lawsuits yet. I'm sure that I could just acknowledge the notice and not worry about it, but it's just as easy to find a new provider, so why acknowledge i've done anything illegal? Not worth it.

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I was using strongvpn for months. Throughput was good and service was cheap. Pretty much any US-based service is gonna have to respond to those DMCA notices, so you may want to look outside the country for a company that can ignore those requests if you're doing a lot of p2p.

The movie industry hasn't made a decision to start suing people like the RIAA yet. They do send out notices but I don't think they've done any mass lawsuits yet. I'm sure that I could just acknowledge the notice and not worry about it, but it's just as easy to find a new provider, so why acknowledge i've done anything illegal? Not worth it.

Anonymizer.

Originally Posted by GQgeek

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I was using strongvpn for months. Throughput was good and service was cheap. Pretty much any US-based service is gonna have to respond to those DMCA notices, so you may want to look outside the country for a company that can ignore those requests if you're doing a lot of p2p.

The movie industry hasn't made a decision to start suing people like the RIAA yet. They do send out notices but I don't think they've done any mass lawsuits yet. I'm sure that I could just acknowledge the notice and not worry about it, but it's just as easy to find a new provider, so why acknowledge i've done anything illegal? Not worth it.

Ah! That makes sense now. I had never heard of that. Thanks

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Anonymizer.
Could write an entire article on the service, but bottom line, don't place TOO much faith in it unless everything you're doing is legal and all you're trying to achieve is privacy. It's a US company (or at a minimum has significant operations in the US) and to my knowledge they do log, but they won't provide access to just anyone at any time. They would probably react the exact same way strongvpn did, but this is bad on old info on my part because it's been a while since i've thoroughly looked at their services. Also, you have information on your machine that can give you away, even when you think you're anonymous, such as information stored in cookies. Depending on what you want to do, you need to be super careful if you really want to stay anonymous. you can get plugins for some browsers that will disable all scripts and cookies and anything else that could identify you. If you really want to be anonymous, the Tor network is the best i've seen, but it's slow as ****. People are loathe to run servers because nobody wants to be on the receiving end of an fbi raid because some guy coming from your IP is serving child Appreciation, trying to hack a government site, or posting in hamas forums saying he's gonna blow up the whitehouse. Ultimately nothing would come of it but I wouldn't be surprised if they seized all your electronics in the meantime, so it's a major disincentive for most people using it and so instead they just consume instead of share bandwidth. Plus, you have to assume that when your traffic comes out the other side, it's being captured, so certain cautions are still merited.