(NECRO) Ok, this is wierd (Comcast infringement notice)

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cubby1223

Lifer
May 24, 2004
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squarecut1 said:
There are some who do, but that does not mean they are in the majority. It is basically an issue of things being all over the place.

This article on piracy is on the front page of New York Times today

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/t...t-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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There is another obstacle to stopping illegal downloads, said Andre Swanston, the chief executive of Tru Optik, the media analytics firm. People want access to everything, anytime, and there is little to stop them from having it. “Even if you added Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, Sony Crackle and everything else combined, that is still less content available legally than illegally,” he said. “The popularity of piracy has nothing to do with cost — it is all about access.”
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Add in the exclusivity agreements...

You have to have accounts with all those services to have access to everything. Services are bringing on original, exclusive productions. Aren't some studios making deals with one service over another?

And find me a set-top box that plays both itunes and Amazon Prime content. You cannot, one does not exist, and will never exist unless itunes loses drastic market share.

And good luck watching your itunes purchases if you buy an Android phone.

On top of all that, your purchases vanish and your money gone if the company you buy from goes belly-up, or they decides to just discontinue the streaming service.

It's a stupid mess of a system to purchase content.
 
WhoBeDaPlaya

WhoBeDaPlaya

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That's definitely a torrent. RARBG is a pretty good release group, though I usually get their stuff on Usenet.
 
kage69

kage69

Lifer
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I think your girl snuck a boyfriend in. He went about getting Workaholics the way he normally does while she was doing something else. Maybe he had his laptop with him and thought he'd torrent a copy of the episode or season while he was there, for later.

Yep, you'll be a grandpa in no time. Good luck with dtecnet though!
 
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Hugh Jass

Hugh Jass

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Yep...it's a torrent...she lied...and you're not as good at spotting her lies as you thought you were.
 
Markbnj

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Hugh Jass said:
Yep...it's a torrent...she lied...and you're not as good at spotting her lies as you thought you were.
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Did I say I was good at spotting her lies? Have you raised any teenagers? I am definitely not good at spotting her lies. In fact, I would say my three daughters are all able to routinely pull the wool over my eyes, and the ease with which they accomplish that is probably at least an occasional topic of amused conversation.
 
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Kev

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It might have just been an honest mistake. Roku has a global search which might have come up with a torrent streaming result that she played, thinking it was amazon prime. Might just try testing this theory.

It doesn't make much sense for her to go out of her way to illegally stream a torrent when it is available on prime for free.
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

Lifer
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TheFamilyMan said:
With his daugher being 22yrs old...I'll wager it was P2P rather than usenet.
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Release groups (like "EXCELLENCE" in this case) still typically put their stuff on Usenet first. Then it spreads to P2P networks. That makes it more difficult to trace back to the individual that uploaded it.
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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Kev said:
It might have just been an honest mistake. Roku has a global search which might have come up with a torrent streaming result that she played, thinking it was amazon prime. Might just try testing this theory.

It doesn't make much sense for her to go out of her way to illegally stream a torrent when it is available on prime for free.
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I was thinking this. Some kind of unscrupulous channel on the Roku listed it.
 
Markbnj

Markbnj

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Kev said:
It might have just been an honest mistake. Roku has a global search which might have come up with a torrent streaming result that she played, thinking it was amazon prime. Might just try testing this theory.

It doesn't make much sense for her to go out of her way to illegally stream a torrent when it is available on prime for free.
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Might have been. Haven't heard anything more about since the OP, so it's on the "will not worry" list for now.
 
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rebirth_mishap

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That is indeed the way a torrent file looks. I use a VPN so Comcast can fuck off. Peerblock is there to block China and Taiwan.

If and that's a big IF she downloaded an illegal torrent I would create an opendns account and block p2p. Set the router to the two main DNS entries for opendns and all devices will use it. You can prevent a DNS change on a computer with the third party firmware DD-WRT by blocking DNS. It allows the dnsmasq but block any DNS traffic from the computers not using the dnsmasq.

You can also catch P2P traffic in a DD-WRT router.

My kids will hate me. LOL
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What or which VPN do you use? I have one and sometimes it doesn't work and I get "e-mail notifications" from comcast. I think late at night when I'm sleeping Comcast shuts down the internet for a few minutes like xfinity does with our tv boxes and that disconnects my VPN, so for a few hours early in the morning I'm "visible"
 
Harrod

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rebirth_mishap said:
What or which VPN do you use? I have one and sometimes it doesn't work and I get "e-mail notifications" from comcast. I think late at night when I'm sleeping Comcast shuts down the internet for a few minutes like xfinity does with our tv boxes and that disconnects my VPN, so for a few hours early in the morning I'm "visible"
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You need to setup firewall rules that only allow whatever applications to go out the private vpn, so if your connection drops it doesn't go out on the public ip address. Use google, and you can figure it out.
 
Fanatical Meat

Fanatical Meat

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rebirth_mishap said:
What or which VPN do you use? I have one and sometimes it doesn't work and I get "e-mail notifications" from comcast. I think late at night when I'm sleeping Comcast shuts down the internet for a few minutes like xfinity does with our tv boxes and that disconnects my VPN, so for a few hours early in the morning I'm "visible"
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Since this is nearly 3 years ago I bet its not the same one now.

sigh another pointless necro
 
thesmokingman

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Miramonti

Miramonti

Lifer
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Why would she watch it through bt if she's aware it's available for free on their Amazon Prime account? Doesn't make sense.
 
amdhunter

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
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Miramonti said:
Why would she watch it through bt if she's aware it's available for free on their Amazon Prime account? Doesn't make sense.
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OP was from 20 years ago or something. The kid was imprisoned and she took her life after the copyright lawsuit took everything away from her familly.

RIP OP's daughter. :(

Also, did OP post a pic of his daughter?
 
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piasabird

Lifer
Feb 6, 2002
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If they ask you about this by phone then just say I talked to the kids and the wife and we done know what is going on. It must be a hacker or maybe someone stole our wifi. Then tell your daughter, that if she has any illegally downloaded files to delete them before the FCC comes to the house to arrest her, gives here a huge fine and then takes her to jail for 10 years. That might get her attention. Could be anyone in the House. It all depends what you do and if they want to force the FCC to act on this.
 
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piasabird

Lifer
Feb 6, 2002
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Might be time for a low level format writing 1/0 to every available address and then deleting the MBR directory, rebuilding the partitions and then reinstalling the OS.

There is always Thermite.
 
master_shake_

master_shake_

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gotta love those third party squealing bitches.

they join a swarm which is illegal btw to tattle on users.

what a fucking joke.

we have canipre.

pretty much equivalent to an ambulance chaser.
 
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