Galacticat42 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Uhm his provider checks the files he downloads and you people act as if this is the most normal thing ever? You live in Northern Korea or did i miss something? "the thing they are notifying me about I didn't download." sounds more like a spam/fishing mail...Phishing... And yea and it doesn't exactly sound completely legitimate, the message that is. A few things to note:Did the message have an external link?Did the message ask for any type of verification?Did the message have an attachment?Did the message take but a few extra milliseconds to open than usual? If yes to any of the above I'd be highly suspicious of phishing, keylogging, and/or spyware, viruses or trojans. If no to all of the questions then WTF is your internet provider doing going about and looking at your private data? That is unless you don't live in the USA at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t55 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Uhm his provider checks the files he downloads and you people act as if this is the most normal thing ever? You live in Northern Korea or did i miss something? "the thing they are notifying me about I didn't download." sounds more like a spam/fishing mail...This!!! In ireland only mobile broadband isnt checked and if you do torrent they cut off your internet for two weeks paid. Like you said it seems like korea, oh well goodbye privacy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllanOcelot Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Step one : Ring up your ISPStep two: Ask them about their customer privacy policy.Step Three : Tell them you are not happy, being presumed a criminal, when you have never once downloaded anythign ilegal.Step four : receive free internet for atleast three months, (I got two) and enjoy trolling the suits. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korodic Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Uhm his provider checks the files he downloads and you people act as if this is the most normal thing ever? You live in Northern Korea or did i miss something? "the thing they are notifying me about I didn't download." sounds more like a spam/fishing mail...This!!! In ireland only mobile broadband isnt checked and if you do torrent they cut off your internet for two weeks paid. Like you said it seems like korea, oh well goodbye privacy O.O I would pay for a VPN... Obviously you shouldn't torrent (and I don't), but to have an ISP looking at my history like that... I don't like that... they'redddd be a lotttaaaa things.... dirty things... :thumbsup: just kidding I'm cleaner than the cooler side of my pillow <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunnie Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 lol @ you people and your crackpipe dreams of privacy on the internet! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghosu Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) Well i'm not talking 'bout privacy, of course everything is tracked and saved and may backstab you in the future but a provider that contacts you directly after a download would be something new to me, it's 1983 not 1984 yet :biggrin: Edited February 24, 2012 by ghosu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan3345 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 You guys should look up TOR.. I don't pirate, and I am not that into the dirtier things on the web, but TOR makes me feel relatively safe. Even if it is all imaginary.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunnie Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Well i'm not talking 'bout privacy, of course everything is tracked and saved and may backstab you in the future but a provider that contacts you directly after a download would be something new to me, it's 1983 not 1984 yet :biggrin: Actually, if his provider DID contact him, it would be after they were contacted by a copyright holder that a suspect infringement has occured from one of their customers IP addresses. It's pretty standard practice (in the US) for the ISP to send a notification to the customer on record that a copyright violation has been reported using an IP assigned to them at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKevSexyMan Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Hmmmm....It might not be your ISP directly. I once got a notice from a 3rd party through my ISP. Here's what happened, I was torrenting something and I guess someone was watching the list of peers and whatnot. Anyways, they got my IP address and contacted my ISP. Everything basically blew over though, so no harm. I stopped using torents after that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinRider Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 You guys should look up TOR.. I don't pirate, and I am not that into the dirtier things on the web, but TOR makes me feel relatively safe. Even if it is all imaginary.. Tor is not used for torrents.. It's because it's too much bandwidth for the tor network. There's a tor addon for Vuze I believe but it's not worth using. I'm doing a research project on Tor this summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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