On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Bob La Quey wrote:
Anyway service was back up in about thirty minutes.A buddy who is staying with has been using Bit Torrent. Apparently his Bit Torrent system was serving the file in question that is "protected" by the DMCA. Am I the only one who has encoutered this from Cox? Have they just started doing it? Other comments?
Sorry, dude, but that's why you got your DMCA notice. Cox apparently has a unique way of alerting the owner of the IP address of the violation, and thinking about it, it's technically brilliant. You certainly couldn't ignore it.
So you completely blasted a Cox employee for suspending your service because of a clear violation of your terms of service, which you agreed to when you got the account. A violation that you later found out to be true.
Personally, I'd bitchslap any visitor that caused my ISP account to get bounced like that.
From the wording of the message, you could have simply told your friend to shut down BitTorrent, stop sharing pirated works while at your house, and never do it again at your house, and simply clicked on the link in the web page Cox routed you to, and it would have been done.
Did you actually read the notice? Says right here:
Step 2. To avoid any future infringement, we highly recommend turning off the sharing feature of your peer-to-peer software, such as KazAa, Morpheus, Grokster, etc. For specific instructions on how to disable the feature for your specific software, consult with the software vendor.
Tell your friend to set his BitTorrent client to leach-mode when he's at your house.
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