How to avoid being sent an infringement notice

[Miles-Auwe]

Well, I just got my third strike but it's been over a year since the last one. Generally I change my seed rates a few times a day and keep the speeds low unless I'm at my desk playing Zuma's Revenge, though I do tend to seed for 12+ hours a day. I think I may have left uTorrent on at full throttle while I was at work today because I got my Time Warner/Road Runner warning when I got home.
I'm no smartie when it comes to computers, or anything technical, or anything requiring a great deal of precision for that matter, but I'm fairly good at following directions. Is there anyway to avoid being tracked by the cable company?

February last year the MPAA, RIAA and five major Internet providers in the United States launched their “six strikes” anti-piracy plan.

The main goal of this Copyright Alert System is to educate the public. Through various notifications subscribers are informed if their connections are being used to share copyrighted material without permission, and told where they can find legal alternatives.

Thus far the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), which oversees the program, has only released details of the number of warnings that were sent out during the first 10 months. During this period 1.3 million anti-piracy alerts were sent out.

This year the number of notices are expected to double, but no exact details have yet been released. However, based on information received last week we can now report that Comcast sent out its one millionth warning recently.

A million warnings translates to a little under 2,000 notices per day, a similar rate to the one we reported earlier this year. The ISPs and copyright holders previously agreed to cap the Copyright Alert volume, which may hover around this number.

TorrentFreak asked Comcast to verify our findings, but the Internet provider would neither confirm nor deny that it has sent out 1,000,000 alerts.

“We have no official data to disclose at this time,” a Comcast spokesperson wrote in a brief emailed reply.

Part of Comcast’s initial Copyright Alert

So what’s in store for those who receive an alert? ISPs and copyright holders have stressed that the focus of the Copyright Alerts lie in education, but repeat infringers face a temporary disconnection from the Internet or other mitigation measures.

For example, Comcast has chosen a browser “hijack” which makes it impossible for customers to browse the Internet, but without interrupting VOIP and other essential services.

“If a consumer fails to respond to several Copyright Alerts, Comcast will place a persistent alert in any web browser under that account until the account holder contacts Comcast’s Customer Security Assurance professionals to discuss and help resolve the matter,” Comcast writes.

How quickly customers will be able to resolve the matter and what they will have to do is unknown, but Comcast stresses that no accounts will be terminated under the Copyright Alert program.

“We will never use account termination as a mitigation measure under the CAS. We have designed the pop-up browser alerts not to interfere with any essential services obtained over the Internet.”

Thus far there’s no evidence that Copyright Alerts have had a significant impact on piracy rates. However, the voluntary agreement model is being widely embraced and similar schemes are in the making in both the UK and Australia.

Originally Published: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:37:42 +0000
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[stormium]

Well, I just got my third strike but it's been over a year since the last one. Generally I change my seed rates a few times a day and keep the speeds low unless I'm at my desk playing Zuma's Revenge, though I do tend to seed for 12+ hours a day. I think I may have left uTorrent on at full throttle while I was at work today because I got my Time Warner/Road Runner warning when I got home.
I'm no smartie when it comes to computers, or anything technical, or anything requiring a great deal of precision for that matter, but I'm fairly good at following directions. Is there anyway to avoid being tracked by the cable company?

it's not the speed that gets their attention. it's your ip address being logged in a swarm they are monitoring.

the best way to avoid being sent a notice is to invest in a vpn service or seedbox.

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Not exactly what that thread was about. The best way to obtain help is by asking in your own thread.

Post split to new thread.

[Miles-Auwe]

Can anyone expand on stormium's input?

"I'm no smartie when it comes to computers, or anything technical, or anything requiring a great deal of precision for that matter, but I'm fairly good at following directions."

[kjf]

Try searching the forums first. We have a number of threads discussing infringement notices and how to avoid them. Short short version is your cable company has nothing to do with it.

[ShadyJay]

thats a good idea kjf