How fucking ironic, I just recieved this E-mail this evening after that post i just made today about bittorrent (by the ways i'm a i'm an INCREDIBLEdumbass because i didn't see there were 3 pages and i just saw the first one so my post was way off topic:
*** YOUR COMPUTER’S ACCESS TO THE IU NETWORK IS SCHEDULED TO BE ***
*** DISABLED 24 HOURS FROM THE TIME THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT. YOU ***
*** MUST TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION, AS OUTLINED BELOW, TO AVOID ***
*** DISABLING. ***
Indiana University has received a complaint that copyrighted material
is being distributed from a computer that our records indicate is
registered to your username. A copy of this complaint is provided
below, at the end of this message. Indiana University is required by
law to take immediate action to take down this infringing material.
You must also take immediate action. Consequences include:
- DISABLING OF YOUR COMPUTER’S ACCESS TO THE IU NETWORK; and
- REFERRAL TO THE DEAN OF STUDENTS OFFICE FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION.
To avoid these consequences, you must take the Indiana University File
Sharing Copyright Tutorial, and pass the included quiz.
To access the tutorial and quiz:
1) Using a web browser, go to Indiana University’s Oncourse
system:
http://oncourse.iu.edu
2) Click on the "CAS Login" button in the top middle of the screen
3) At CAS login screen, enter your IU username and password
4) Click on the Fall 2003 course named "BL OVPIT S999 9999
File-Sharing Copyright Tutorial and Quiz"
5) If you are prompted to be "Listed" or "Not Listed", pick "Not
Listed"
6) Follow the instructions on the Course Announcements page to
begin the tutorial.
If you have problems logging in, please call the UITS Support Center
for your campus. For IUB, call 5-6789; for IUPUI, call 4-4357.
Downloading or distributing whole copies of copyrighted material for
personal use or entertainment without explicit permission from the
copyright owner is most certainly against the law. There are
substantial civil and criminal penalties for sharing copyright
material without permission or license, and if the copyright owner
presents Indiana University with a legal order to provide them with
the identity of the person to whom the computer is registered, we
would be obligated to give them that information.
Thank you for your immediate attention to this serious matter.
Regards,
-Robert
--
Robert Whitt
ITPO Incident Response
Office of the VP for Information Technology
Indiana University
VOICE: 317.274.8656
----- COMPUTER DETAILS -----
Assigned IP : [deleted]
MAC address : [deleted]
Computer name : badass
Network : HALLS-forest
Registrant : [deleted]
ORIGINAL COMPLAINT FROM THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER FOLLOWS:
> [
[email protected] - Mon Nov 01 13:15:36 2004]:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Re: Unauthorized Use of Universal Motion Pictures
> Notice ID: 1665795
> 1 Nov 2004 17:36:08 GMT
>
> Dear Sir or Madam:
>
> Universal City Studios Productions LLLP and its affiliated companies
> (collectively, "Universal") are the exclusive owners of copyrights
> in many motion pictures, including the motion pictures listed
> below.
>
> It has come to our attention that Indiana University Computing
> Services is the service provider for the IP address listed below,
> from which unauthorized copying and distribution (downloading,
> uploading, file serving, file "swapping" or other similar
> activities) of Universal's motion picture(s) listed below is
taking
> place. We believe that the Internet access of the user engaging
in
> this infringement is provided by Indiana University Computing
> Services or a downstream service provider who purchases this
> connectivity from Indiana University Computing Services.
>
> This unauthorized copying and distribution constitutes copyright
> infringement under Section 106 of the U.S. Copyright Act .
> Depending upon the type of service Indiana University Computing
> Services is providing to this IP address, it may have legal and/or
> equitable liability if it does not expeditiously remove or disable
> access to the motion picture(s) listed below, or if it fails to
> implement a policy that provides for termination of subscribers
who
> are repeat infringers (see, 17 U.S.C. 512).
>
> Despite the above, Universal believes that the entire Internet
> community benefits when these matters are resolved cooperatively.
> We urge you to take immediate action to stop this infringing
> activity and inform us of the results of your actions. We
> appreciate your efforts toward this common goal.
>
> The undersigned has a good faith belief that use of the motion
> pictures in the manner described herein is not authorized by
> Universal, its agent or the law. The information contained in
this
> notification is accurate. Under penalty of perjury, the
> undersigned is authorized to act on behalf of Universal with
> respect to this matter.
>
> Please be advised that this letter is not and is not intended to be a
> complete statement of the facts or law as they may pertain to this
> matter or of Universal's positions, rights or remedies, legal or
> equitable, all of which are specifically reserved.
>
> Very truly yours,
>
>
> Aaron Markham
> Manager of Internet Anti-Piracy,
> Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations
> VIVENDI UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT
> 100 Universal City Plaza
> Universal City, CA 91608
> tel. (818) 777-3111
> fax (818) 866-6339
>
[email protected]
>
> *pgp public key is available on the key server at
> ldap://keyserver.pgp.com
> ** For any correspondence regarding this case, please send your
emails
> to
[email protected] and refer to Notice ID: 1665795. If
> you need immediate assistance or if you have general questions
> please call the number listed above.
>
>
>
>
> Title: Mulholland Drive
> Infringement Source: BitTorrent
> Initial Infringement Timestamp: 30 Oct 2004 08:15:47 GMT
> Recent Infringment Timestamp: 30 Oct 2004 08:15:47 GMT
> Infringer Username:
> Infringing Filename: Mulholland.Drive.[DVDrip_FR-Charas].AVI
> Infringing Filesize: 719671062
> Infringers IP Address: [deleted]
> Infringers DNS Name: [deleted] .dhcp-bl.indiana.edu
> Infringing URL: [deleted]:44935/Mulholland.Drive.[DVDrip_FR-
> Charas].AVI
>
> - ---Start ACNS XML
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <Infringement xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://mpto.unistudios.com/xml/Infringem
ent_schema.xsd">
> <Case>
> <ID>8325192</ID>
> <Status>New</Status>
> </Case>
> <Complainant>
> <Entity>Universal Studios</Entity>
> <Contact>Aaron Markham</Contact>
> <address>100 Universal City Plaza (1280/6)</Address>
> <Phone>818-777-3111</Phone>
> <Email>
[email protected]</Email>
> </Complainant>
> <Service_Provider>
> <Entity>Indiana University Computing Services</Entity>
> <Contact></Contact>
> <address>2711 E 10th St</Address>
> <Email>
[email protected]</Email>
> </Service_Provider>
> <Source>
> <TimeStamp>2004-10-30T08:15:47Z</TimeStamp>
> <IP_Address>[deleted]</IP_Address>
> <DNS_Name>[deleted].dhcp-bl.indiana.edu</DNS_Name>
> <Type>BitTorrent</Type>
> <UserName></UserName>
> <Number_Files>1</Number_Files>
> <Deja_Vu>No</Deja_Vu>
> </Source>
> <Content>
> <Item>
> <Title>Mulholland Drive</Title>
> <FileName>Mulholland.Drive.[DVDrip_FR-Charas].AVI</FileName>
> <FileSize>719671062</FileSize>
> <URL>[deleted]:44935/Mulholland.Drive.[DVDrip_FR-
> Charas].AVI</URL>
> <Type>Video</Type>
> </Item>
> </Content>
> </Infringement>
> - ---End ACNS XML
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> Version: 8.0
>
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As you can see when you scroll down to Universal studios original e-mail Vivendi Universal does their homework. Guess i won't be buying halflife 2 now(i probably will anyways). AND HERES THE KICKER: the movie i eventually downloaded was in fucking French with no subtitles! well anyways i have to take a fucking copyright quiz tonight or I'm screwed.