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I gotta be careful.....

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:50 pm
by danz
check this message I got from UW torrent-patrol :grind: gonna have to hold off on Doom 3 for a while...

Greetings,

The University of Washington has received a complaint in accordance with
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) alleging violations of Federal
copyright law through the use of the files listed below. Our records
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You are receiving this notice in accordance with the DMCA and UW Policy.
If you believe that you have received this notice in error, please contact
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FINES OF UP TO $150,000 PER WORK INFRINGED AND IMPRISONMENT. COPYRIGHT
OWNERS ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE IN ENFORCING THEIR COPYRIGHTS,
AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS ARE ALSO INCREASING. See Recording Industry of
America, Press Release, "RIAA Moves Against Operators of Pirate P2P
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and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Dept. of Justice
(www.cybercrime.gov).

Compliance with copyright law is a requirement of the use of University of
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for more information.

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> ------------------------------
> Infringement Detail:
> Infringing Work: Doom 3 (Retail version)
> Filepath: Doom 3(6).torrent
> Filename: rld-d3a.bin
> First Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:26 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Last Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:26 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Filesize: 549,185k
> IP Address: 128.208.37.106
> IP Port: 6886
> Network: BTPeers
> Protocol: BitTorrent
>
>
> Infringing Work: Doom 3 (Retail version)
> Filepath: Doom 3(6).torrent
> Filename: Doom3.Crack.and.KeYgen.rar
> First Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:26 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Last Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:26 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Filesize: 1,565k
> IP Address: 128.208.37.106
> IP Port: 6886
> Network: BTPeers
> Protocol: BitTorrent
>
>
> Infringing Work: Doom 3 (Retail version)
> Filepath: Doom 3(6).torrent
> Filename: rld-d3b.bin
> First Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:27 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Last Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:27 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Filesize: 656,095k
> IP Address: 128.208.37.106
> IP Port: 6886
> Network: BTPeers
> Protocol: BitTorrent
>
>
> Infringing Work: Doom 3 (Retail version)
> Filepath: Doom 3(6).torrent
> Filename: rld-d3c.bin
> First Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:27 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Last Found: 1 Oct 2004 18:13:27 EDT (GMT -0400)
> Filesize: 625,292k
> IP Address: 128.208.37.106
> IP Port: 6886
> Network: BTPeers
> Protocol: BitTorrent

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:07 pm
by R3C
The UW used to be Admiral McNevin and my private connection to the world of warez. :D We didn't attend school there, but we had some nice faculty accounts, that got us through the 90s software-wise. Ahh the good old days.

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:15 pm
by enderzero
Yikes!! Watch out for Torrent Patrol! They are on top of things.

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:48 pm
by McNevin
Nothing like that back then! wow thats scary. Well good to know the baddies are monitoring torrents now.

I actually worked at the computing department of the UW. I really enjoyed working there.

Stupid torrent monitoring... :grind: how am i supposed to get warez anymore. Hey, wait a minute. My "record" is gone now, i moved. No more strike against me at the ISP.