I work for an ISP. This is what the MPAA sends us when they find someone offering movies for download.
We have to comply, or be faced with possible enabling charges. Something we do not want to deal with.
The beautiful thing about it is, all they give up is an IP address. We run dhcp for 99% of our users, with a 48 hour lease time.
98% of the time the MPAA sends us the notifications long past that time frame. Nothing I can really do about it. I notify the user of that IP at the time, that they we aren't accusing them, but if they are, they may want to stop.
Here's the text of the letter, edited to protect the individuals involved.
MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
15503 VENTURA BOULEVARD
ENCINO, CALIFORNIA 91436
UNITED STATES
Anti-Piracy Operations
PHONE: (818) 728 - 8127
Email: MPAA@copyright.org
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Name:
E-mail:
ISP:
Via Fax/Email
RE: Unauthorized Distribution of Copyrighted Motion Pictures
MPA Case Name: dcc://roached11(galaxynet)@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ [with IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
Reference #: 26xxxxx
Date of Infringement: 7/19/2003 3:02:06 PM GMT
Dear :
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) represents the following motion picture production and distribution companies:
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
Paramount Pictures Corporation
TriStar Pictures, Inc.
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
United Artists Pictures, Inc.
United Artists Corporation
Universal City Studios, LLLP
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
We have received information that you are providing Internet access to and possibly hosting the internet site;
dcc://rxxxhed11(galaxynet)@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/
which is offering downloads of copyrighted motion picture(s) including such title(s) as:
28 Days Later
Bruce Almighty
Fast and The Furious 2, The
Hulk, The
Just Married
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
Spaceballs
The distribution of unauthorized copies of copyrighted motion pictures constitutes copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3). This conduct may also violate the laws of other countries, international law, and/or treaty obligations.
We request that you immediately do the following:
1) Disable access to this site;
2) Remove this site from your server; and
3) Take appropriate action against the account holder under your Abuse Policy/Terms of Service Agreement.
By copy of this letter, the owner of the above referenced Internet site and/or email account is hereby directed to cease and desist from the conduct complained of herein.
On behalf of the respective owners of the exclusive rights to the copyrighted material at issue in this notice, we hereby state, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 512, that the information in this notification is accurate and that we have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owners, their respective agents, or the law.
Also pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we hereby state, under penalty of perjury, that we are authorized to act on behalf of the owners of the exclusive rights being infringed as set forth in this notification.
Please contact us at the above listed address or by replying to this email should you have any questions. Kindly include the above noted Reference # in the subject line of all email correspondence.
We thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Your prompt response is requested.
Respectfully,
Thomas Temple
Director
Worldwide Internet Enforcement
Sure people get pissed when I run through Newark in the fast lane of the Garden State Parkway, but screw them, I'm loosin' weight.
Actually, my wife makes me eat weird healthy crap that often tastes like warm cardboard, and I walk as much as I can, which means I take the long way around the office for my 5th cup of coffee.
Flight is not a right. It's an option. If you choose to fly to a location, you accept that someone will see through your clothes. If you don't like it, take a train, boat or car.
Can you name 25 high quality closed source programs?
There are a ton of good quality open source programs. The difference is if you find an open source program that does 95% of what you want it to do, you can build the other 5% yourself. Try that with closed source software.
As for CVS, while not my favorite software versioning system, it does it's job. Your welcome to write a better one though.
And there are a ton of crap at download.com.
Oh sure... Awstats, BitTorrent, phpMyAdmin, webmin... etc. Yeah they're all "trash".
Is there crap on sourceforge... oh yeah, as well as dead projects. But the same can be said for closed source. The big difference as I see it is, if you find a dead open source project, you can pickup the ball and run with it. You can't with closed source.
Now we know where all the ex-KGB agents went. They now work for the RIAA.
It's a sad time when your afraid to develop something because it 'MIGHT' be used for illegal things.
Bastards!
It's great to teach others, but without the background, or the teaching of consequenses (I can't spell worth a damn), that could bite the school in the arse.
Don't worry about it. That cute girl next door is probably in a different country. Kind of like the interface, but people are not "In my local area"...
Actually your right... spamd crapped out about 5 minutes into the attack
Re:Mod parent down... (-1, absolutely ridiculous)
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To the Prince of Poop (The Anonymous Coward),
I'll even address your points one by one, and I'll use small words so you don't get confused.
1. It had a gigabit eth card on a 45 Mb DS3 2. Who said it used a single IDE drive? No one in their right mind would use IDE in a production environment. 3. Splitting the Queue works wonders, and yes the load was off the charts. I never said this machine is still running, or even how long it ran like that for. It ran like that for about an hour, we then blocked the spammer. 4. You also assume that this is the only machine on the network that handles mail? The load avaerage during that spammers time was well above 600. It also took about 36 hours to get all the mail out of the spool dirs.
So to the Arogant Prince of Poo, I say to thee... Get your head out of your ass and realize weird shit happens. Like I said, I've seen it, neither I nor the Box was very happy about it. And yes it was replaced 2 days later bye a dual proc box.
I find my 59c wallet-sized notepad more useful than my friend's Palm.
Ok... The wallet sized notepad for getting girls phone numbers I understand... What were you doing using your friends Palm? Don't you know he could go blind???
I seen EXIM handle over 750,000/hr on a little old 450mhz desktop with 265Mb ram. It is very easy to install and configure. We had it handling over 120 domains (5000+ users), with spamfiltering (spamassassin).
I like it. No it's not as configurable as sendmail, but nice and easy to deal with.
I've run Snort for a little over a year and a half. I love it, but this book will probably be out of date in a month or two. We've seen versions 1.6 thru 2.0 released within a years time. Some large changes were made along the way as well.
The basics won't change much, but I wonder.
I wonder if the book covers some of the great addons available like acid, barnyard, and snortsnarf?
"There were hundreds of thousands of people who downloaded this, and we know of only a handful of people who had the problem."
Only a few reported it, because everyone is used to MS patches breaking things. This "Critical Update" disabled wireless networking for us. I just rolled back the patches, and wait.
MS is the king of "It's not a bug, It's a feature!"
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I work for an ISP. This is what the MPAA sends us when they find someone offering movies for download. We have to comply, or be faced with possible enabling charges. Something we do not want to deal with. The beautiful thing about it is, all they give up is an IP address. We run dhcp for 99% of our users, with a 48 hour lease time. 98% of the time the MPAA sends us the notifications long past that time frame. Nothing I can really do about it. I notify the user of that IP at the time, that they we aren't accusing them, but if they are, they may want to stop. Here's the text of the letter, edited to protect the individuals involved. MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. 15503 VENTURA BOULEVARD ENCINO, CALIFORNIA 91436 UNITED STATES Anti-Piracy Operations PHONE: (818) 728 - 8127 Email: MPAA@copyright.org Tuesday, July 22, 2003 Name: E-mail: ISP: Via Fax/Email RE: Unauthorized Distribution of Copyrighted Motion Pictures MPA Case Name: dcc://roached11(galaxynet)@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ [with IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Reference #: 26xxxxx Date of Infringement: 7/19/2003 3:02:06 PM GMT Dear : The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) represents the following motion picture production and distribution companies: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Disney Enterprises, Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation TriStar Pictures, Inc. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation United Artists Pictures, Inc. United Artists Corporation Universal City Studios, LLLP Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. We have received information that you are providing Internet access to and possibly hosting the internet site; dcc://rxxxhed11(galaxynet)@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ which is offering downloads of copyrighted motion picture(s) including such title(s) as: 28 Days Later Bruce Almighty Fast and The Furious 2, The Hulk, The Just Married League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Spaceballs The distribution of unauthorized copies of copyrighted motion pictures constitutes copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3). This conduct may also violate the laws of other countries, international law, and/or treaty obligations. We request that you immediately do the following: 1) Disable access to this site; 2) Remove this site from your server; and 3) Take appropriate action against the account holder under your Abuse Policy/Terms of Service Agreement. By copy of this letter, the owner of the above referenced Internet site and/or email account is hereby directed to cease and desist from the conduct complained of herein. On behalf of the respective owners of the exclusive rights to the copyrighted material at issue in this notice, we hereby state, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 512, that the information in this notification is accurate and that we have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owners, their respective agents, or the law. Also pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we hereby state, under penalty of perjury, that we are authorized to act on behalf of the owners of the exclusive rights being infringed as set forth in this notification. Please contact us at the above listed address or by replying to this email should you have any questions. Kindly include the above noted Reference # in the subject line of all email correspondence. We thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Your prompt response is requested. Respectfully, Thomas Temple Director Worldwide Internet Enforcement
I run...
As much as I can...
Sure people get pissed when I run through Newark in the fast lane of the Garden State Parkway, but screw them, I'm loosin' weight.
Actually, my wife makes me eat weird healthy crap that often tastes like warm cardboard, and I walk as much as I can, which means I take the long way around the office for my 5th cup of coffee.
The Hard drives are really hard on the shreaders though...
Bad enough I have to play with newbies at the blackjack tables, now I have to play with HAL at the poker table...
"Fold Dave..."
Flight is not a right. It's an option. If you choose to fly to a location, you accept that someone will see through your clothes. If you don't like it, take a train, boat or car.
You have other options.
A little deflection of moving air and the first hover computer..
Ok for the past 10 years, things have been getting smaller and smaller.
I've lost my cell phone, my PDA, my laptop, and god knows what else.
Now I have to worry about losing my desktop???
It's called a class action suit. There have been a few in the past.
Umm Yeaaah... About those TPS reports...
Wait... This sounds like flamebait but...
Can you name 25 high quality closed source programs?
There are a ton of good quality open source programs. The difference is if you find an open source program that does 95% of what you want it to do, you can build the other 5% yourself. Try that with closed source software.
As for CVS, while not my favorite software versioning system, it does it's job. Your welcome to write a better one though.
And there are a ton of crap at download.com.
Oh sure... Awstats, BitTorrent, phpMyAdmin, webmin... etc. Yeah they're all "trash".
Is there crap on sourceforge... oh yeah, as well as dead projects. But the same can be said for closed source. The big difference as I see it is, if you find a dead open source project, you can pickup the ball and run with it. You can't with closed source.
Now we know where all the ex-KGB agents went. They now work for the RIAA. It's a sad time when your afraid to develop something because it 'MIGHT' be used for illegal things. Bastards!
Marvin The Martian's Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...
Standard Issue 1000ft extension cords!
The UK has asked anyone over 90kg to move to the north. Starting Nov 1, any 90+kg person found in the south will be fined.
20 Euro to be paid to fat people who move north.
A free trampoline will be issued to the relocated to help with the tilt.
It's great to teach others, but without the background, or the teaching of consequenses (I can't spell worth a damn), that could bite the school in the arse.
Don't worry about it. That cute girl next door is probably in a different country. Kind of like the interface, but people are not "In my local area"...
Silly Humans...
A woman would know how to spell warehouse.
Actually your right... spamd crapped out about 5 minutes into the attack
To the Prince of Poop (The Anonymous Coward),
I'll even address your points one by one, and I'll use small words so you don't get confused.
1. It had a gigabit eth card on a 45 Mb DS3
2. Who said it used a single IDE drive? No one in their right mind would use IDE in a production environment.
3. Splitting the Queue works wonders, and yes the load was off the charts. I never said this machine is still running, or even how long it ran like that for. It ran like that for about an hour, we then blocked the spammer.
4. You also assume that this is the only machine on the network that handles mail? The load avaerage during that spammers time was well above 600. It also took about 36 hours to get all the mail out of the spool dirs.
So to the Arogant Prince of Poo, I say to thee... Get your head out of your ass and realize weird shit happens. Like I said, I've seen it, neither I nor the Box was very happy about it. And yes it was replaced 2 days later bye a dual proc box.
I find my 59c wallet-sized notepad more useful than my friend's Palm.
Ok... The wallet sized notepad for getting girls phone numbers I understand... What were you doing using your friends Palm? Don't you know he could go blind???
People still start their clients though...
I seen EXIM handle over 750,000/hr on a little old 450mhz desktop with 265Mb ram. It is very easy to install and configure. We had it handling over 120 domains (5000+ users), with spamfiltering (spamassassin).
I like it. No it's not as configurable as sendmail, but nice and easy to deal with.
I've run Snort for a little over a year and a half. I love it, but this book will probably be out of date in a month or two. We've seen versions 1.6 thru 2.0 released within a years time. Some large changes were made along the way as well.
The basics won't change much, but I wonder.
I wonder if the book covers some of the great addons available like acid, barnyard, and snortsnarf?
"There were hundreds of thousands of people who downloaded this, and we know of only a handful of people who had the problem."
Only a few reported it, because everyone is used to MS patches breaking things. This "Critical Update" disabled wireless networking for us. I just rolled back the patches, and wait.
MS is the king of "It's not a bug, It's a feature!"
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How about the Hulk ?
:)
I'll have Terminator 7 available in a few hours