BEARSHARE is cracking down
 

Abuse Incident Number: NA000000*******
Report Date/Time: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 **:**:** -****

Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber:

Comcast has received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized
agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made
on or over Comcast's High-Speed Internet service (the 'Service'). The copyright
owner has identified the Internet Protocol ('IP') address associated with your
Service account at the time as the source of the infringing works. The works
identified by the copyright owner in its notification are listed below. Comcast
reminds you that use of the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner
that constitutes an infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of
Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy and may result in the suspension or termination
of your Service account.

If you have any questions regarding this notice, you may direct them to Comcast in writing by
sending a letter or e-mail to:

Comcast Legal Response Center
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
650 Centerton Road
Moorestown, NJ 08057 U.S.A.
Phone: (856) 317-7272
Fax: (856) 317-7319
E-mail: dmca@comcast.net

For more information regarding Comcast's copyright infringement policy,
procedures, and contact information, please read our Acceptable Use Policy by
clicking on the Terms of Service link at http://www.comcast.net.

Sincerely,
Comcast Legal Response Center

Copyright work(s) identified in the notification of claimed infringement:

Title: *******************************

Infringement Source: Gnutella
Infringement Timestamp: 24 Mar 2007 **:**:** GMT
Infringement Last Documented: 24 Mar 2007 **:**:** GMT
Infringer Username:
Infringing Filename: ******************
Infringing Filesize: 3.** MB (4,***,*** bytes)
Infringer IP Address: ##########
Infringer DNS Name: c-***************.hsd1.comcast.net
Infringing URL:

I've be using bear-share for years and this is the first time this happen ,it's not like these songs are new there from the 80"S I always copy and burn get rid of them,and I'm not going crazy on the downloads i say 40 files i got with them over the years.comcast told me that they where told they will be doing this to all p2p programs do to people downloading anything not just songs,games,movies and so on I guess the good days are coming to the end..........

That's a lie, of course. They won't be doing anything like that because it is
still far, far easier to stick to the protection they get from the DMCA by
responding only when they get a complaint about shared files, not downloading.

It is typical of cable companies to show such utter contempt of their internet
customers by making such transparent lies, assuming all of their customers are
so easy to fool and manipulate. They should have just stuck with their little
TV broadcasting monopolies because their technical and people skills have
never come even halfway to the levels of a real internet service provider,
even after a decade of experience.

Anyway, you're not in any trouble. Those DMCA complaints are just
routine paper shuffling to Comcast and you can be sure they've already
forgotten about it, since they handle dozens every week and don't have the
manpower to waste on such things.

Just stop sharing anything under copyright and don't reply to any of those
emails at all. To do so gives lawyers an opening to exploit, should they
choose to get rude. Your reply could even find it's way back to the
lawsuit-happy MAFIAA drones, revealing your identity and giving them a
chance to extort a few thousand bucks to "avoid" one of their bogus lawsuits
(none of which have ever succeeded in a real court under a real judge, but
don't expect them to admit to it). :p



The only way this could have happened is if you were sharing the file by mistake.
Here are a couple of things you can do to prevent these accidental leaks:

Firstly, go into Setup/Uploads and turn off "Enable Partial File Sharing".
That will stop files from leaking out while you are still downloading them.

Secondly, go to the Library view, find your downloads folder in the tree view
on the left side, right-click and click on "Shared" to turn that off. Now your
most recently downloaded files won't be shared until you say so.

thanks thats a load of my mind,:xirokrotima: