Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Further news - I used Transmission to download 'Ice Cold In Alex'(one of my favourites-no sweat I bought the DVD just they are hobbled) - and watched it fullscreen on VLC. NICE TOUCH! Unlike with BBC i_player, VLC on 10.04 has a lockout, so in 2 hours the screen saver and power saving never kicked

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/05/10 20:47, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Further news - I used Transmission to download 'Ice Cold In Alex'(one of my favourites-no sweat I bought the DVD just they are hobbled) And no doubt that's /exactly/ how your ISP will see it when they get a letter from a solicitor informing them

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Simon O'Riordan
I thought we had a little while until that happened? A couple of weeks? Anyway, I was told this: ISP's are under no obligation to disclose information. BT probably will. But if you are lucky, you can register YOURSELF as an ISP provided you can prove you have guests using your connection. In that

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Simon O'Riordan
On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 21:23 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 08/05/10 21:05, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I thought we had a little while until that happened? A couple of weeks? Anyway, I was told this: ISP's are under no obligation to disclose information. BT probably will. But if you are lucky,

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/05/10 21:40, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Sean, just looked it up; we have until June 12th. So shag that connection, baby! Ooerr! Meanwhile, I'm checking out AcidRip so I don't have to download at all. I'll let you know how that goes in a few minutes. I've got 98% of my first file.

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Simon O'Riordan
By the way, my first hobbled DVD ripped easily and is now fully usable. Testing it on a real bugger. So far I'm 40% there. Simono On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 21:50 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 08/05/10 21:48, Sean Gibbins wrote: That said, you do we have no right in law to rip the media we've paid

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/05/10 22:01, weki wrote: Hi everyone, I know we are not in Spain ;-) but under the Spanish law you have the right to do a private copy of any music or film you have bought . So I'm not 100% sure but I think it should be the same here in England. It's not if what I have read on

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Simon O'Riordan
This just in: Sky Captain 0, acidrip 1. On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 22:02 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: By the way, my first hobbled DVD ripped easily and is now fully usable. Testing it on a real bugger. So far I'm 40% there. Simono On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 21:50 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: On

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread Simon O'Riordan
With iPredator it comes down to plausible deniability, i.e. the connection came from your IP address but it could have originated from any number of people routed through iPredator running on your machine. I thought this through and decided that I didn't want to find myself using

Re: [Dorset] Earlier....

2010-05-08 Thread David Wilkinson
Simon O'Riordan wrote: Talking of plausible deniability, when I was following my Vista installation down to its inevitable hole in the ground, I noticed that it was using an additional 90 GB of disk relative to my data at that time and now, when 10-4 is using 90GB less with all my stuff