Spectrum saying i am downloading illeagal files?

I have a question, is it legal for a comcast internet tech to tell me i have to install something on my computer that in turn erased all my bookmarked pages that i use for reference for work? Well, as soon as it was finished installing I imediatly opened google crome to start my work writing ebooks on political topics. To my dismay, ALL of my reference matirial I had spent months looking for and bookmarking was gone!!

No bookmarks!! I called the service center, they sent out a tech guy to my place again. He told me that he was not sure why they make people install this software because people are unhappy about it usually. He also told me that other people have had the same problem before and that there is nothing they can do about it. This is unacceptable to me!! It has ruined my focus and direction associated with my writing as I now have absolutely no references!!

Please someone tell me this is illegal so i can put a stop to this kind of guided misfortune!! Thank you! Just wanted to thank you for this simple, clear and concise post on downloading! It really helped me to understand this topic. I really appreciate it! I became instantly addicted with torrent downloading when i first found BitLord.

I constantly downloaded discographies and many movies and games. With all of this foolish downloading came the most unexpected consequence: a copyright notice. When you download via a torrent, your IP number appears in a list of uploaders and downloaders. This list shows up in the torrent program of everyone sharing the files with that torrent. The owner of the copyright or a proxy just has to download that torrent to see the IP numbers of all the people sharing that file.

They can determine which ISP you are using to share the file. They then send those IP numbers to their lawyers who get a court order to get the ISP to tell them who is downloading that file using that IP number. Quite possibly, yes. On charter or any other ISP. Illegal is illegal, regardless of whether or not you get caught. Thank you for writing a tech blog that filled in some blanks re: why my ISP has a hard-on for uTorrent and NOT being completely full of s! Our proudest moment was watching Star Wars Episode I a few weeks before it was in the theaters.

So what if the movie sucked? It saved everyone 10 bucks and it proved that if we wanted something, we could get it. And they did. If machines could get purple hearts, that box has a couple and is quite sick with adware as I write.

I thought the p2p nature of file sharing would obfuscate the origins and destination of each file. I further thought the hashing would make identification of the filename or its contents, source, destination, etc too difficult to crack for an interested 3rd party to look any further into.

Again…great blog — will add it to my shortlist of "Blogs that don't suck ," to be published around yrs end. Still the popup??? I think you're above that. Also — consider mentioning that you "consulted for" Microsoft. Do you really want tech readers, especially software engineers to know that you were on the payroll?

The popup timing was coincidental. Should also show up only once every 6 months unless you clear cookies. It was a wonderful experience. Do you think that could be triggering it? Thanks again! Sky my ISP has given my ip information to an internet troll I am now waiting on a letter from them demanding money is this legal.

Hi Leo if you get warning from your isp about downloading illegal content and you stop downloading it for a while how can you tell them to remove the warning stars that you get from them. They should eventually go away. If not, your only option would be to contact your ISP directly by phone or email. I am working on a project and I would like to know if it is possible for ISPs to track only downloads made on their network.

If that is possible which applications can be used to achieve this. For months now I have stopped using uTorrent. And have done a factory reset on my pc. And if so, how do I get it all to stop? Run up-to-date scans. And would they care? Depends on the specific program. I use uTorrent and have gotten warnings from my ISP telling me exactly what movie i was downloading.

My landlord was not happy about this because he is paranoid about get the service shut off. He could even be fined for copyright violations. It happened to me, Luckily, the guest who downloaded the movie willingly paid it. Thankyou for such a lovely article.

ISPs can track anything which goes through their servers unless it is encrypted and rerouted by a VPN. In askleo. On non-https sites they could. I have been downloading movies and for the last couple of days I cant download from any site why is that please help. It is not illegal to download anything of the internet what so ever.. In general, ISPs these days aren't so interested in what you're downloading.

They leave that to the folks being stolen from. Instead, ISPs are more concerned with how much bandwidth you're sucking up, and whether that's slowing everyone else down. As such, many ISPs will throttle your connection—that is, slow it down—if they see you're using BitTorrent. They don't usually look at what you're downloading even though they could, if they wanted to , but they will check what kind of traffic is coming from your machine. That is, they'll see how much of it is email, web browsing, video chat, online gaming, and so on.

All they care about is that you're slowing down their network. To see if your ISP is looking for BitTorrent traffic, check out this list of the worst offenders , or try the previously mentioned Glasnost tool. If your ISP isn't throttling BitTorrent, then you don't have much to worry about, though they still could see anything they wanted.

The real problem, if you're downloading illegal media, is the company from whom you're stealing. They or lawyers or companies on their behalf actually go online and seek out torrents of their material, whether it be movies, music, TV shows, or anything else, and will download the torrent themselves. From there, they can see a lot of information about the other users connected—including their IP address.

Three weeks later, she received an email from her internet provider, Bell, letting her know that HBO had caught wind of her illegal downloading and it constituted possible copyright infringement. Why was I the only one they contacted? Privacy lawyer David Fraser says the notices serve as a warning and a wake-up call to internet users. The rights holder can, however, go to the courts to request the names associated with IP addresses and launch a lawsuit.

And while the penalties for illegal downloading in the United States can reach the millions, the damages for copyright infringement in Canada is much less. Penney says if a notice recipient believes they received the notice in error and that their activity is legal, the recipient should seek legal advice. Otherwise, he advises people to take the notice to heart. World Canada Local. Internet users receive illegal downloading notices, but what do they mean?

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