Got a call from my provider today: they got a notice from BayTSP that I've been sharing 'The Machinist' over eDonkey. That left me a bit dumbfounded, because I do not download nor share movies. I've been a Netflix user for over three years now - I can watch pretty much any movie I want. Why even bother downloading.
The fact is, I was running mlDonkey (linux box) downloading a bunch of scenery packs for MSFS.
I don't know what algorithm BayTSP uses to determine what movies are being shared, but apparently its running a bot client which searches for certain movies by calculating hash sums. They even extracted the 'name' under which the supposed movie was stored. Yeah, right.
Anyway, I told my provider, I am not nor was sharing any illegal copyrighted stuff, so sorry. They apologized, sent a standard reply to BayTSP 'bug off, we can't enforce this, notified end user' and mailed a copy to me.
What worries me is that with untested crap like that BayTSP is acting on behalf of record labels doing witch-hunt. Sh!t like that just pisses me off. If it comes to anything, it's their word against mine - and there's no doubt about who's going to win.
Argh. :|
The fact is, I was running mlDonkey (linux box) downloading a bunch of scenery packs for MSFS.
I don't know what algorithm BayTSP uses to determine what movies are being shared, but apparently its running a bot client which searches for certain movies by calculating hash sums. They even extracted the 'name' under which the supposed movie was stored. Yeah, right.
Anyway, I told my provider, I am not nor was sharing any illegal copyrighted stuff, so sorry. They apologized, sent a standard reply to BayTSP 'bug off, we can't enforce this, notified end user' and mailed a copy to me.
What worries me is that with untested crap like that BayTSP is acting on behalf of record labels doing witch-hunt. Sh!t like that just pisses me off. If it comes to anything, it's their word against mine - and there's no doubt about who's going to win.
Argh. :|
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