On Fri, March 23, 2007 5:04 pm, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Bob La Quey wrote: >
> 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. > > Gregory > > Oh Bob! Say it ain't so! Over "_Rome_"?! -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
