Is it illegal are they going to give me a huge bill? Downloading copyrighted material is always illegal yes. I wanted to ask if downloading books from b-ok. But just wanted to know. Hey Priya. This post is about Torrenting and streaming.
I was just contacted by my airbnb host in Germany that during our stay at their house in August we downloaded a film while using their internet. They seem scared and threaten with legal action. We live in the Netherlands, however. What do you think our odds are in getting away with it? I feel for my host, as we were totally unaware that a film was seeding on torrent while we were using our laptop.
Nice article. I have a question: What if I download using simple file sharing and not torrent trackers? They had 44s glich in connection and there it goes. Please, be aware of this too. Aleksandra and how did u continue with the process!?
Did u get a lawyer? Almost the same happened to me. Hi i have had this letter in while i was in Germany. I did hire a lawyer and he wrote a modified letter on my behalf. They sent another letter to my lawyer with a reduced fine. By that time i already moved out of Germany I told my lawyer after that letter that i have moved out of Germany and he said then he will let the WF know that he cannot get in touch with the Client as he moved out of country.
Is this good, i see the sometime they come back chasing after 4 years to up to 10 years? Hi Raj, Would you be able to share that modified letter after redacting your personal info and kindly send it to me at reeldocfilm yahoo. I would very much like to know what the lawyer says to such a demand. Many thanks! This article is very well written and shows only the crucial info! How can I check it up?
Yet, how can I be sure? Hey Dan. Hi, Benjamin, If you want to I would recommended you contact them yourself and negotiate a lower fine. Going to a lawyer they will do the same except you have to pay them also.
All these so call lawyers work together. The so call expert lawyer will just write a letter on your behalf and charge you for it. You know how many lawyers there is in Germany? I also was warned abd now have to pay them plus lawyer fees. When you subscribe to a paid membership in a site with the possibility of downloading from the site, is this unifying fear? How you do with ads popping up on websites or opening tabs? Activating AdBlock is enough? Now I know I have to delete my torrent before going to Germany.
This is scary. What else should we be aware of? You also mentionned using VPN is legal, are they just legal because you have to pay for them? Can you recommend us a VPN we can use without problem in Germany? Hey Rebeca. There is a d edicated post about VPNs this way. In the last days I get a letter from a law company what includes that I have to pay close to euros for downloading some movies from a torrent site. I am shocked! In the moment I am totally unable to pay this amount. Thank you for your answer in advance,.
Hi Andres, These lawyers are like vampires ready to suck you dry. In other countries before you download there will be a warning that if you do it you will have to pay a heavy penalty. But not here. Welcome to Germany where all humans supposed to be free and have all the rights. I would suggest you contact the German office for public help and they will help you prepare a response at no cost. Good luck. Hi, Can I download a game from website through torrent qtorrent?
The website request to be downloaded through this torrent. Hey Ognen. The use of Torrent clients itself is not punishable by law, only the illegal sharing of copyrighted material. A publisher may use torrents as a way to distribute their game if they wish so. Ich bin der Meinung, dass ich eine Abmahnung bekomme. Maybe you should have written in English????? English website, English article — German comment — brilliant logic!
If you are here and commenting then clearly you speak English. But ill manners and disrespectful attitude is the German way! Und Christoph Polifke, tschuldigung aber da kann ich dir nicht weiter helfen. Am i allowed to download a game through client, for example from Blizzard website, the game is absolutely free no torrent , games such as League of Legends. It is illegal? Im gonna get fined for that?
Thank you! Hey Cosmin. This post is about illegal downloads. If you are downloading freely available game directly from the publisher, not a problem! Hello, Thank you very much for this helpful article! I have received one of those, they claim that I downloaded the torrent and shared it on Popcorn. However, I am pretty sure I did not download the movie but streamed it.
Is is a bluff from their side? If I say that I streamed it, will it be better than saying that someone stole my wifi? Can they fine me if this device does not even belong to me and is tracked in another country?
Do you know how long it took for the letter to arrive from the moment you downloaded the film? I was at the apartment via Airbnb in Germany and it seems, that the owner of the apartment accused me of doing this as he was the owner of the internet connection. And also to prove I was really the one downloading the movie?
Well, it could be anyone… Does it make sense to reply: Sorry, but can You prove it was really me? Or what do You propose? Hey Leo. I cannot give you legal counselling on how to react. To prove that it was your device, they would also need the MAC address of your device. I just received the paperwork from WF for a movie I downloaded. Hey David.
Better ask a lawyer that. Hi David, these jerks want your money only. If you pay them without a fight, it will be a blessing for them and they wish everyone will do the same. What about Youtube Audio Library? They are royalty free music. I am a content creator and i need some audios for my videos. What to look for: 1. Choose a service that specifically states that they do not keep logs 4. Get more familiar with VPN.
I have gotten one of these famous bills, but I dont live in the country anymore. So right now is my former roomie very concerned. I have used the ignore method since He already got his lawyer on it. I live in Denmark, so the cooperation between the two states are great.
But how far is the companies going, do you have an idea? Hi, after reading all these questionare I come to the conclusion that only foreigners get caught or single out. I would consider this type of demand as high way robbery. Other country like France if you get caught they first send you a warning letter not to do it again. Sometimes they work together with each other to rip you off. Hello, what is your experience with plex?
If someone else is uploading to the server in the States and I am streaming without downloading? This is helpful thank you very much! In my case i just recieved a fine from IPPC LAW but the letter is addressed to my ex flatmate The internet contract is brought on his name and will likely expire after a few months who have moved to China permanently and I am not in contact with him.
So shall I let them know about emigration it just ignore the letters? If I am not using torrents in Germany. And is it legal to download VPN in Germany? To use a VPN in Germany is perfectly legal. I forgot to delete torrent program after coming to Germany, i opened my laptop and went away on 3 min.
No file was completed or downloaded, I closed the program immediately and deleted him. Thank you in advanced. Hey Sebastian. As mentioned in the post and in the comments. So did you get fined?!! Today was my last vacation day in Berlin at my friends house, and stupidly enough I decided to download a movie to see on the flight back.
It was only a question of minutes before I shut everything down, cause my friend urged me to close it. Worst part is, I was using their network. Does everyone get fined?!? What the fu…? I just use Netflix and stuff like that! Like to give you a tip. If you contact a lawyer they are happy to help you because they want business and you are going to pay them. They will probably ask you to show them your salary. All these lawyers are only care for their incomes and NOT for you.
There are like Vultures zooming up in the air and looking for a Prey. Their advice is not to contact law firm yourself but let them do it. This is Germany. Other country like France, they warn you first and if you do it again then they will find you.
Take this advice from someone who has been ripped off by them lawyers! Hi Jimmy What if i left the country forever and they cannot deliver letters to me anymore? I had some torrent files on my laptop before coming to Germany. Accidentally, I opened Utorrent for a few seconds. Now, I know that it is impossible to know if the Abmahnung will eventually come, but my doubt is that I live in a university dorm.
Would the letter come to my landlord or to me? I am worried the landlord might be the one that receives the letter and pays for it and only discovers who uploaded later when trying to get his money back. Do you have any idea how it goes when it comes do uni dorms? Is it legal to do a download of an episode or a movie on Netflix app in Germany? About a week later, I started receiving warnings via email from Charter telling me to stop downloading music from limewire copyright infringement?
After that they sent notices to stop downloading movies from UTorrent. What I want to know is how do they know who I am, where I go on the internet and when I choose to save something to my computer? How does someone else know when your on a website downloading anything? And as your ISP they know a lot about you, and have the ability to do a lot with that information.
Become a Patron of Ask Leo! The whole point of having an ISP is to use their services to provide you with a connection to the internet. That means that when you send or receive data — any data — it travels from your computer through your router and immediately encounters equipment owned and operated by your ISP.
Port 80 is web traffic, 25 is email, and so on. The justification is typically that file sharing protocols use up a great deal of the ISPs capacity, and thus have to be disallowed in order to provide adequate service to all of its customers. Of course your ISP also knows who you are. You pay them every month, they know where you live since they deliver the internet connection to your home.
And they also know your IP address, since in order to connect to the internet at all they had to give the IP address to you. Now all of a sudden your machine becomes implicated not in one copyright violation — your download — but as a source of dozens or hundreds of other copyright violations as you make that same movie available to others.
Many file sharing protocols have begun to do exactly that: encrypt. The port number that defines what it is you are sending is not encrypted. It may change 25 is email, is typically encrypted email , but it still defines what it is you are sending.
Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. They adamantly reject Peer to Peer downloading. Maybe the big guys can swallow the extra overhead. If you were sophisticated enough with respect to intellectual property law, you would understand that. There are legal ways to download many of those movies which usually consist of paying for the rights, such as via Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and many others.
But unless the owners of the copyrights give you permission, it is illegal in most countries. But It can be enforced as a civil matter; it is a tort. I agree,I do see the need for torrents,and these sort of programs, but they do have legitimate uses , not just piracy. I myself have had the infringement email two times in just over two years.
What you do is learn about the TOR network. Then you trip, and fall into the TOR, subsequently hitting your head, and your fingers hit download on one of the movies you missed due to your illness.
The TOR does something to mask your identity online. Have you checked where all these people are living? Have you checked their offshore accounts to dodge taxes their implemented for the rest of us but are unwilling to pay themselves? Some ISPs have traffic shaping which will actually slow down uTorrent. Theres encryption for getting past that, however its not good for anonymous the only thing it does is prevent passive listening, IIRC.
In the same train of thought— if I am using a program such as PeerGuardian, how am I protected exactly? What information is hidden from 3rd parties, and how much if any is hidden from my ISP?
Kind of like banning cars because some people drive when they are drunk…. Regarding email encyprtion you should clarify that port is typically TLS encryption which is just the credentials of the message — not the message itself. The one thing that has always puzzled me about this subject is this: With all the information the IP address of where content is being sent from, your IP address, etc. From what I understand, the police need a court order or something to get information from ISPs.
But Im not sure how hard those are to get. And a lot of them I imagine are outside of jurisdiction. Not since the Patriot Act. All ISPs are required to keep record of Internet traffic for years and let the government take a peek when it needs something. Optic degrades 6 times faster than co-axial which means you have to strip it out and replace it every years otherwise it becomes useless.
Cost for connection of fiber escalate out of sight compared to coaxial cable. Coaxial is far easier to repair, resists damage where optic will crack, split, fracture, break and is a pain in the proverbial to join — joins further degrade efficiency. Not being too knowledgeable about bandwidths etc, I thought that all the massive movie streaming, tv catchups etc that were being urged to watch and my wife does due to the hours she works would use more bandwidth than just downloading file-sharing material or am I wrong?
I have music playing on the internet all day, am I being greedy? Getting back to the original question, I think I read somewhere that they can only track what we upload and not download, or am I wrong. How and what are the protections of this vs. And you wont know until the next bank statement. P2P, in fact, is ludicrously amateurish, and you will discover that once you learn to use Google.
Filename, data type, etc? This seems to be the correct article to ask this question. Hi Leo, thanks for your insight and you were correct about your comment on 30 Aug ! SOPA, Megaupload, etc.
If I use this proxy on windows mail, will it stop my isp or others being able to view the data being sent etc. I recently past 3 weeks began downloading movies off of torrent sites. As soon as the file was completed downloading I stopped it from seeding. After downloading about 80 movies I started receiving emails from my ISP saying that they were contacted by the movie distributors ie.
Sony, Universal, etc. Each email listed the title of the movie in question and demanded that I remove the files and stop downloading or I will be disconnected. See all comments In them olden days, I wrote code for Comten for years.
When IBM copied it, they even copied my mis-spellings in the comments to the source code. The lawyer's had fun. It is all part of the Big Game for tiny minds.
I guarantee if you got hauled in before the Canadian SC over this and you owned the cart they would throw it out. Rom paranoia is stupid anyway. It's all for consoles nintendo no longer sells, and it'll be decades before they well and truly start monetizing dead properties.
Plus, nothing is wrong if you don't get caught. Considering that ROM's have been around for decades, it makes you wonder why only now the Nintendo cares.
But the answer comes from what Nintendo did in the last couple years. They tried the idea of making a "Classic" console with the games to see if they would sell. There is profit to be made. I'd disagree. As copyright companies are so fond of saying, you didn't buy the game, you bought a license authorizing you to play the game.
Since you paid for and own the right to play the game, where you get the bits which allow you to play the game should be irrelevant in the eyes of the law. In fact, the copyright holder would be in violation of their purchase contract with you if you paid for the license but lost the original media, and they refused to provide you with replacement media to let you use the license you paid for. Their answer cannot be "buy another license, but oops, sorry, we're not selling them anymore.
Downloading is not distribution, so you cannot violate copyright by downloading something.
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