So here’s the rub: The owners of copyrighted materials do the same thing! They run a bit torrent program, and search for their movies and then they get a list of everybody else who is sending or receiving their copyrighted material - then they send legal threat notices to the internet service providers in question, which is authorized fully by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. They don’t get your name, but they do get your Internet Address (IP address) – which leads them to us. The problem is that in order for the process to work, your computer actually broadcasts requests out to hundreds of other computers which in turn broadcast them even further, and ultimately, anyone in the world can quite easily find out exactly which movies or software packages you are downloading. Your bit torrent program pieces them together to form one big file which is the movie (or file) that you are downloading. The movie you are downloading comes in pieces from these different users. Illegal filesharing activities can be done in many different ways on the internet such as via websites, ftp sites, or email, but the most common form of illegal filesharing these days is done with one of the several bit-torrent based programs such as uTorrent, FrostWire, LimeWire, Shareaza, and many many more.īit torrent programs work by connecting to hundreds of other users who are also are running bit torrent programs. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires that every ISP (Internet Service Provider) immediately block access to any illegal filesharing activity as soon as the ISP finds out about it. In 1998, our United States Senate unanimously voted to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and President Bill Clinton signed it into law that same year on October 28th. However, we live in this great country where we choose our lawmakers who sign our laws, and some of these laws have strict requirements with severe penalties for internet services providers: Please understand that while we didn’t write these laws, we are forced to comply with them or we will be struck with severe legal trouble. We are aware that some people enjoy getting free movies or software via the internet, sometimes because they own the disk but can’t find it but usually because they just want it for free. Our policy on Intellectual Property Piracy Background:
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