VM and copyright infringement E-Mail.

Default behaviour for torrent software was to upload and advertise as well as download. This advertising of your IP and files is how the movie people make lists of "Who's distributing my stuff". They then lookup the owner of the IP address, which tells them the ISP. They contact the ISP. And these days the ISPs roll over with barely a whimper and give up your details. Or they send you an email. Or it can lead to ambulance chasing lawyer letters. And all of this is automated these days.

This is why people use VPNs and virtual servers these days. Or Netflix.
 
mrbell1984 said:
Because the packets between your internal network and ISP may not be encrypted. They use systems that monitor their lines to see what people are downloading over certain protocols ie torrents.
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One might suspect rights holders themselves might be seeding their own content for infringement trolling sometimes...
 
mrbell1984 said:
Because the packets between your internal network and ISP may not be encrypted. They use systems that monitor their lines to see what people are downloading over certain protocols ie torrents.
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That’s not quite accurate, by default no ISP encrypts it’s packets, that’s why users choose to use a VPN. Generally the rights holder (or more often than not it’s 3rd party agents) join torrent swarms and log IP’s, they then send bulk lists with times and IP’s over to the ISP’s in question to contact the customer and impress upon them that it’s not OK. It’s nothing to do with the protocol used or any form of actively ‘monitoring lines’. With the advent of the snoopers charter ISP’s are required to log a certain amount of data and the legal threshold for that to be viewed by law enforcement/government etc. is absurdly low as I personally discovered following an unfounded accusation.

As to the intimidation suggestion in your other post, this is deemed customer education and part of an agreed scheme that ISP’s effectively agreed to in order to prevent the fiasco where everyone but Sky supplied details to a 3rd party rights holder to send speculative invoices without a fight.
 
OK so the wife has just told me that since I changed our router password/s shes noticed the net for her in general has been faster , which is funny as I noticed the last few weeks the net has been a little sluggish .
 
foster grant said:
OK so the wife has just told me that since I changed our router password/s shes noticed the net for her in general has been faster , which is funny as I noticed the last few weeks the net has been a little sluggish .
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A friend’s mother told him how much quicker her PC was following a memory upgrade, he then pointed to the yet to be installed sticks of memory.

It’s an educational email, take it in the spirit it’s intended and educate the household on what to do so it doesn’t happen again, that includes basic security.
 
Avalon said:
A friend’s mother told him how much quicker her PC was following a memory upgrade, he then pointed to the yet to be installed sticks of memory.

It’s an educational email, take it in the spirit it’s intended and educate the household on what to do so it doesn’t happen again, that includes basic security.
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Well in that case then maybe someone was trying to or had got into our wireless, we also have the VM TV Box "online" too .
 
d_brennen said:
One might suspect rights holders themselves might be seeding their own content for infringement trolling sometimes...
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It's been many years since I've last used torrenting sites. But there used to be a second program I used (can't remember the name Edit: its now called peerblock) that acted as an ip checker against known ip addresses to the check would block them from connecting to me.
 
Apparently it's very easy to break even WPA2 these days,can't say I've done it myself but I have watched a demonstration using some particular software and it was quite straightforward.
 
Was the WiFi password changed to something easy or still the randomly generated one?
 
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Quartz said:
This is generally not a good idea. The router needs to be left on to find its optimum connection speed.
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That doesn't apply for Virgin Media connections. Agree its not a good idea to power it off though, just leave it on.

Hmm... just a thought, but if you switched it off, then the IP address would be assigned to someone else at the time.
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Not likely, the IPs on VM are very sticky to the extent its almost static. Mine only changes every few years.
 
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