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

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I'm not sure if anyone posted it, but if you log into Amazon and go to your Prime Video Library, it will say what you've recently watched. Mind you, the UI sucks, so it's not an easy find.
 
If they have all the tv shows in one place, instead of the current system of a gazillion services and gadgets, people would pay 15 to 20 bucks a month for it. Piracy would be greatly reduced. It is not all about people wanting to get stuff for free
 
squarecut1 said:
If they have all the tv shows in one place, instead of the current system of a gazillion services and gadgets, people would pay 15 to 20 bucks a month for it. Piracy would be greatly reduced. It is not all about people wanting to get stuff for free
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buuuullshit - tons of people pirate dollar apps. FFS people pirate shit because they don't want to give up their email.
 
Markbnj said:
I questioned her closely on this, and she was adamant that she had never watched Workaholics other than on Amazon Prime via the Roku. Looking at the filename that Comcast claims was infringed...

[FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]Filename:Workaholics.S04E09.HDTV.x264-EXCELLENCE[rarbg][/FONT]
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... it seems to be the season and episode that she claims she was watching last night, around the time of the infringement, on her Roku. I have no experience with downloading movies via torrent... does that look like the sort of file that would be found on one?
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Yes, it is. RARBG is a very large torrent tracker. Their torrents are repeated by many other public trackers.

See: http://bittorrent.wikia.com/wiki/Rarbg.com
and: http://rarbg.com

It looks to me like it could also be the sort of filename that would show up in a resource URL from a Roku box. I don't know. On the one hand I really did feel like she wasn't bs'ing me, and on the other I am inclined toward the occam's razor conclusion of: she did it.

The allegation came from antipiracy2@dtecnet.com. Anyone ever hear of them, or see something like this before that turned out not to be legit?
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Are you quite certain that the notification came from Comcast, rather than being a phishing attempt? It's easy to see, even from a standard BitTorrent client, which ISP a torrenting peer is on. It would make for an easy target for fake notifications.

One other possibility: She may have tried downloading the torrent, gotten impatient while waiting (but left it downloading), then went to Amazon Prime and watched it there.

In any case, don't worry about it too much. Comcast doesn't care. They just send out the notifications to appease whoever reports a supposed violation.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Are you quite certain that the notification came from Comcast, rather than being a phishing attempt? It's easy to see, even from a standard BitTorrent client, which ISP a torrenting peer is on. It would make for an easy target for fake notifications. One other possibility: She may have tried downloading the torrent, gotten impatient while waiting (but left it downloading), then went to Amazon Prime and watched it there. In any case, don't worry about it too much. Comcast doesn't care. They just send out the notifications to appease whoever reports a supposed violation.
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It does appear to be legit. Yeah I am not tremendously worried about it at this point. My kids know where I stand on this shit, and they also know I don't have time or inclination to monitor what they do. If they do stuff that brings me trouble then that trouble is rolling downhill. I can do a pretty effective job of blocking crap when I want to. I just find that to be a rat race and I'd rather not have to contemplate it. I'd rather just restrict them all to LAN for a week the next time I get an email like this 🙂.
 
Ns1 said:
buuuullshit - tons of people pirate dollar apps. FFS people pirate shit because they don't want to give up their email.
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Yeah, I am pretty sure that if my daughter grabbed this torrent a more comprehensive selection would not have changed her mind. She's at that age where she can blow $300/week on "stuff" and never find $100 to make an insurance payment.
 
ThinClient said:
The solution is clear...

key logger on her computer and packet sniffer activation in the router 😛
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She has a Chromebook, but I am pretty sure this was all played out on her TV, which has Roku attached to it. Anyway, if I need to I can go the openDNS route, but I am more about responsibility and consequences than prevention... pregnancy and STDs being two obvious exceptions to that rule.
 
Ns1 said:
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Too slow dude, I already found them. She's a looker, this guy must have great genes 😀

what man you said we could take the challenge! Although I got more sidetracked with his great nature and travel photos... It's not like you don't give all the info on here anyway ;p

Don't worry I wont post anything though, I'm not THAT lame, just a little bit lame. Don't ban me bro :wub:
 
Markbnj said:
It does appear to be legit. Yeah I am not tremendously worried about it at this point. My kids know where I stand on this shit, and they also know I don't have time or inclination to monitor what they do. If they do stuff that brings me trouble then that trouble is rolling downhill. I can do a pretty effective job of blocking crap when I want to. I just find that to be a rat race and I'd rather not have to contemplate it. I'd rather just restrict them all to LAN for a week the next time I get an email like this 🙂.
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I thought you get 3 warnings before need to start worrying.

But amazed the Rinaun story of getting 50+ notices and no further action taken by them.
 
Jeez, everyone here is so suspicious. I mean, that is the kind of name a torrent would have, but just having a torrent client doesn't mean that's what you have it for. I use uTorrent because our download is so bad I pretty much always use it to save time. I've also downloaded a few cracked games I own the legit version of because the new version doesn't work. :\
Whatever, it probably was her to be honest. 😛

ThinClient said:
Keen surveillance is better than beating everything with a big stick.
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Sig'd?
 
I log everything in my router with tomato, so I could go back to about that time and see if anyone was on at the time, and what sites they were hitting...does your router log?
 
KillerBee said:
But amazed the Rinaun story of getting 50+ notices and no further action taken by them.
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Why? Comcast is not the copyright holder, so they're not going to take any action beyond booting the user. But they probably get tens of thousands of these things every day, so why would they? They know they're not liable.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Why? Comcast is not the copyright holder, so they're not going to take any action beyond booting the user. But they probably get tens of thousands of these things every day, so why would they? They know they're not liable.
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There is a conflict of interest here. The internet company is the same as cable company. So they have a big incentive to go after piracy, even though as an ISP, they have no business doing so
 
It's not Comcast I would worry about - but the company who sent the notice to Comcast

Though it does seem like the copyright trolls probably make good money just from people worried that something may happen and settle out of court so they never have to actually go to trial.
 
squarecut1 said:
There is a conflict of interest here. The internet company is the same as cable company. So they have a big incentive to go after piracy, even though as an ISP, they have no business doing so
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Don't forget Comcast also owns NBC Universal.

KillerBee said:
It's not Comcast I would worry about - but the company who sent the notice to Comcast

Though it does seem like the copyright trolls probably make good money just from people worried that something may happen and settle out of court so they never have to actually go to trial.
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Gigapix Studios produce the show Workaholics and a search of them brings up this news article 😀
http://deadline.com/2014/06/fbi-see...os-scam-for-wizard-of-oz-feature-toon-499687/
 
If she didn't clear her browser history, the website url will be there as well as a record of the download itself.

You can also check to see if she has uTorrent or BitTorrent, & if she didn't clear it from the download list, it'll be there too.

One more thing you can check is the uTorrent / BitTorrent download folder. You can find the exact folder location by going into the program settings.
 
Elixer said:
So, this is an allegation, and what do they want you to do about it ?

Is this the 3/6/12 strike "deal" they have with the ISP ?
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I don't know. Like I said, I'm not that worried unless I see a pattern. I spoke with her again last night and I am pretty sure she was actually watching it on prime. I have one other daughter to interrogate before we can close the case.

And no, I haven't pulled router logs and tried to track it down because I have too much other shit going on right now. I don't like to work too hard to figure out which kid is causing me problems. I just ban 'em all.
 
T9D said:
Too slow dude, I already found them. She's a looker, this guy must have great genes 😀

what man you said we could take the challenge! Although I got more sidetracked with his great nature and travel photos... It's not like you don't give all the info on here anyway ;p

Don't worry I wont post anything though, I'm not THAT lame, just a little bit lame. Don't ban me bro :wub:
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joo guys are creeeeeeepy
 
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