On 3/23/07, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
I simply told the "messenger" to relay a message. If the employee does
not like his job that is not my problem.
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 and done, except there was no link to click, no number to call,
nothing but a stoppage of service. No prewarning, nothing. This is
a big part of the reason I was and am pissed.
Pissed enough so that after well over a decade of being a Cox
customer I am looking into the alternatives. I am approximately
100 yards from a massive central station that is one hop to the
planets biggest peering points ... I can get a variety of alternative services.
I was probably one of the first 100 customers Cox had on there
Interent service. Overall I have had good service for the money,
but times change it pays to look around from time to time.
BobLQ
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