It didn’t stop me though, I kept using BT Networks until graboid came around.

If you want to see what one of these notices might look like, I took a picture of mine and put it on my server, it’s two pages.

Here is the first page, http://www.pointlessworld.com/pics/warning1.jpg

here is the second, http://www.pointlessworld.com/pics/warning2.jpg

And as far as the “download only” thing goes, thats fooey too.. My buddy Mike was using BitTorrent to download a Bourne Surpremacy HD rip off of IsoHunt. This was the first torrent he had ever downloaded and he was not sharing any other files thru BitTorrent at the time. Within 2-4 hours of starting his download he received an email from his ISP (which shall go un-named because I use the same one) which was a forward of an email from Universal..

The e-mail from Universal that was forwarded to his ISP which was then sent to him read somewhat to the tone of “We are aware one of your subscribers located at _X_ IP address is using your service to illegally download and obtain the following licensed Universal properties: The Bourne Supremacy..” It went on to state that something to the effect of “Even though such actions give Universal the right to pursue legal course, we feel it’s best for you and the internet community as a whole to handle these measures discretely and ask that said subscriber cease and desist any and all current and future downloads”

His ISP asked that he stop doing what he was doing before they pull service and don’t do it again. He poo’d his pants and stopped immediately as did I (I had started downloading the same movie but I never got a letter). Granted it seems that Universal (and strangely seemingly only Universal, anyone I know says stay the eff away from Universal torrents) has planted several “bait and hook” torrent files on any of the major free torrent sites to catch people in the act BUT it does go to show that even if you are just downloading…you can still get busted.

I had no misconceptions on the legality of this program and its content from the start tho..

[moderator: actually, whenever you're downloading a file over BitTorrent, you're also uploading it to other users which creates a serious legal conundrum -- any peer-to-peer technologies share this inescapable problem: downloaders automatically become uploaders]

So why can I borrow movies and watch them, but not download them and watch them?

And this is just my own personal opinion on the matter. Except the part about the MPAA being communist serial rapists, that part I can back up with scientific facts!

also, this is the second time I have had to make this post, the last one didn’t show up!