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Dear XXXXXXXXXX

Rogers Cable (Rogers) has received a notice stating that activities associated 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 the Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet service to engage in illegal activities, including activities that infringe copyright. Copies of our EUA and AUP are available 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 the unauthorized distribution of copyright-protected material, Rogers has the right to take appropriate action against you.

If you have any questions about the attached copyright notice, please contact the sender of the notice using the contact information provided in the notice. Please do not reply to this e-mail.

We trust you will comply with our policies and all applicable laws in using the Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet service.

Rogers EUA Management Team
Sincerely,

EUA Management Team
Rogers Yahoo Hi-Speed Internet

http://na.edit.client.yahoo.com/rogers/show_static ?.form=terms

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Rogers Cable

Dear Sir or Madam:

BayTSP, Inc. ("BayTSP") swears under penalty of perjury that Paramount Pictures Corporation ("Paramount") has authorized BayTSP to act as its non-exclusive agent for copyright infringement notification. BayTSP's search of the protocol listed below has detected infringements of Paramount's copyright interests on your IP addresses as detailed in the attached report.

BayTSP has reasonable good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of in the attached report is not authorized by Paramount, its agents, or the law. The information provided herein is accurate to the best of our knowledge. Therefore, this letter is an official notification to effect removal of the detected infringement listed in the attached report. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the Universal Copyright Convention, as well as bilateral treaties with other countries allow for protection of client's copyrighted work even beyond U.S. borders. The attached documentation specifies the exact location of the infringement.

We hereby request that you immediately remove or block access to the infringing material, as specified in the copyright laws, and insure the user refrains from using or sharing with others Paramount's materials in the future (see, 17 U.S.C. 512).

Further, we believe that the entire Internet community benefits when these matters are resolved cooperatively. We urge you to take immediate action to stop this infringing activity and inform us of the results of your actions. We appreciate your efforts toward this common goal.

Please respond indicating the actions you have taken to resolve this matter. The provided link has been assigned to this matter http://webreply.baytsp.com/webreply/webreply.jsp?c ustomerid=XX&commhash=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX. For email correspondence, please reference the above Notice ID in the subject line mai

Sony pays BayTSP and others to monitor the filesharing networks and try to infiltrate the private FTP networks to track down who is releasing DVD rips and screeners. Hence we get news stories several times a year about groups of people being arrested for releasing movies onto the net. You obviously don't understand how the system works. One person isn't enough to get a file widely spread over Kazaa or eDonkey. And when it comes to HD-releases, the movie studios are NOT going take such an attempt lightly.

The screeners and rippers upload to private FTP networks, who then allow the uploaders to download their terabytes of movies and software. This way one copy quickly becomes 100. Several weeks later after spreading through college networks and being seeded on BitTorrent, enough people are sharing it over P2P that tens of thousands now have it.

Now do you think the elite groups are retarded enough to let just anyone in without trying to find out if they're working for the FBI and MPAA? Well the groups that get busted are, or maybe they just got unlucky. You're naive if you think ignorant and or stupid people alone are going to be able to release HD copies onto the net. The studios are counting on Blu-ray and HD-DVD to remain unbroken for twenty years, and after DeCSS, they have the resources, contacts, and co-operation of law enforcement to stop any leaks from a few daring pirates before the leaks become a flood.

You could be right. I get UPN on cable in the NYC area. It's OK, but none of my cable is noise free. I used to D/L the BT just for the better quality until I Got a DMCA letter from my ISP in response to a complaint from BayTSP

I do have my mpeg encoder (nvrec) crash from time to time, Can it really be related to noise?? It always seemed to me that some channels had more crashes than others.

I've already seen multiply DMCA notices from BayTSP on behalf of Paramount for people using both Gnutella and BitTorrent. Someone is finally backing up their threats?

baytsp is one of the bad guys. MGM uses them for scanning P2P networks for infringing works.

Whats really funny is the C&D letter I received was for a file that was just a trailer for a movie. Whats really really funny is the trailer turned out to be a clip from a porn that had been renamed to be the trailer I wanted. So, I received a C&D letter for a bogus trailer???

To top it off, my provider (COX), turned off my Internet access when they received the C&D, without even contacting me first. Too bad its my only choice for broadband access...

In other news, BayTSP.com is kinda speedy today, dontcha think?

..."and we only probe the ports on your computer that you have made public"

... so follow that link at your own risk.

Here's a copyright violation (?) from the BayTSP FAQ.

Q: Can your technology penetrate a firewall?
A: Yes. If you suspect your stolen content is located on a pay site, our technology can effectively get around some firewalls and scan for copyright infringements.

I wonder how they do that. Maybe the BaySpider can steal porn from pay sites!

And here's what appears to me to be conflicting information. Since when is the entire internet only usenet and the web?

Q: Do you search the entire Internet for stolen content?
A: Yes. Our BaySpiderSM applications continuously spider the publicly accessed portions of the web. In addition, we can target our spiders to specific web sites and news groups that we suspect may be posting your copyrighted content.

Q:Can you track stolen content from people who download my content to their home PC?
A: No. We are able to identify the e-mail addresses, however, of the individuals who repost the content to news groups.