i am afraid of torrents now... i was downloading soul calibur legends the other day from a torrent, and the d/l completed and was done for a day and a half... i just didnt burn off the disc. A day and a half later, i un-rard the iso, and moments later my internet just stopped working... i was like what the crap???
did some stuff to my system to try to restore service... then it re-connected mysteriously... opened up explorer, and was greeted with a suspention message from my provider telling me they detected a copy protected iso on my system, <NAMED OFF THE ISO FILE NAME> (how do they know this? i downloaded a multiple rartorrent... the iso was contained INSIDE the rars!) and that i needed to delete it before they restore my service. I called them up, and they told me that if it happened 2 more times, that they would suspend me for life without chance of re-instatement!
I now fear any and all torrents... which is unfortunate as i wanted to back up my copy of SSBB... i have a 9gb iso that i need to convert to 5gb (having a rough time with DL media on my wii... even using verbatim +DLs burned at 1x).
Anyone else have such a problem? Should i run and hide forever from torrents now???
And how did they know an iso was on my desktop? the download was a day and a half complete....the archive was on my desktop... i didnt get suspended until i unzipped the iso! This is scary stuff... do isp's monitor your hard drive for copyrighted software now?? and how do they know i dont have a right to that download? If own the game... i have every right to get a backup copy if i want.
its cox cable, and i DID delete the torrenttracker data. i always do right after finishing a torrent. Mainly because i dont want to seed something that is completed, and i dont want the clutter in my torrent browser.
seed data was gone! yet, somehow, they still located the iso.
the warned me that if i do NOT delete the iso they named, and called them back to re-instate my service, that they would take further action.... aka they were going to scan me again to see if i had the file there or not. this was the threat they gave me. I dont think somebody like cox would threaten me with an illegal action on their part. they said they had every right due to a act passed under the clinton administration in '98. some disclosure act to protect proprietary media... dhca or something like that. wish i had the text in front of me...
cox is good about things like tht. my friends havent had tht problrm since it went to suddenlink here, but when it was cox alot of people i know got calls and stuff. and not to be a butt hole but you dont exactly have a legal right to a back up of that game. i mean... if that was the case they wouldnt have made copy protection... right? on a different note... did you back up the iso before deleting it??? lol
champ what do you use... lol.... or do you "back up" games from the net
