What's the likelihood of being caught for DLing?

[Chosenne777]

I have a friend who downloaded like 20ish gigs form file sharing websites from links on this websites. He is a bit paranoid he will get a notice in his email/law suit. Most of it he owns but some of what he downloaded he does not won the original, so is it likely he will get caught?

[Corey]

Not even close to being in the realm of likely to happen.

[Elin]

I downloaded about 900GB in the first year of having my own PC. And unless I've blanked the experience from my memory, I am yet to serve any jail time.

[Darklinky]

Hmm from this site alone, i have downloaded over 200 PS2 games
50+ game guides
etc
Everything is good here.

[Mistral]

Besides, even if you get a C&D warning for downloading copyrighted material, it's typically a warning first. They don't just throw the book at you until you've become big enough to warrant making an example of, and 20 GB isn't enough for that.

Err, not that I would know anything about that. *whistle*

[Rok124]

i've downloaded about 200 games from this site



most of which are psx games


if about 20k + people download about 200 games from this site, do you think its possible for people to get arrested?

[Knightshade]

i've downloaded about 200 games from this site



most of which are psx games


if about 20k + people download about 200 games from this site, do you think its possible for people to get arrested?

yeah it's a pretty safe bet that you will be fine downloading games.
oh sh@t the cops are at my house just asked if I ever spoke to a Mr.Cookie Monster or user rok124 I told him my ex G/F's son used to watch the former on Pbs and never heard of the latter, so I think EP is safe for now unless they are tracing my internet activity then we are all screwed.

[Gypsy]

I'm just going to assume this thread wasn't serious.

[Rok124]

It may be if SOPA gets passed



EDIT: wtf am i trying to say? its never gonna get passed

[Kuro Kagami]

I have a friend who downloaded like 20ish gigs form file sharing websites from links on this websites. He is a bit paranoid he will get a notice in his email/law suit. Most of it he owns but some of what he downloaded he does not won the original, so is it likely he will get caught?

Even if he downloaded 1000+ gigs of stuff odds are rather low (see close to 0) that he gets caught...

Unless he's an complete idiot and does something stupid like downloading the latest movies/music from torrents without any further safety methods or brags about it in front of the police/while showing his real face over the Internet... (and yes, there are really people that stupid)

[SegNin]

Even if he downloaded 1000+ gigs of stuff odds are rather low (see close to 0) that he gets caught...

Unless he's an complete idiot and does something stupid like downloading the latest movies/music from torrents without any further safety methods or brags about it in front of the police/while showing his real face over the Internet... (and yes, there are really people that stupid)

There was a guy on another emulation forum who did that.

He bought, ripped, and uploaded a Mario Wii game a week before it was widely available and posted a picture of the receipt on this message board and Nintendo was able to track him down through that picture and sued him for 1.3 million plus court fees: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/n...ame_height=300

[Rok124]

There was a guy on another emulation forum who did that.

He bought, ripped, and uploaded a Mario Wii game a week before it was widely available and posted a picture of the receipt on this message board and Nintendo was able to track him down through that picture and sued him for 1.3 million plus court fees: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/n...ame_height=300

I lol'd and roflcopter'd at the stupidity

[replay]

I lol'd and roflcopter'd at the stupidity

i second d' motion.

[deadlegion]

There was a guy on another emulation forum who did that.

He bought, ripped, and uploaded a Mario Wii game a week before it was widely available and posted a picture of the receipt on this message board and Nintendo was able to track him down through that picture and sued him for 1.3 million plus court fees: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/n...ame_height=300

The disturbing part of James Burt's story is....

the Federal Court granted Nintendo a search order, forcing Burt to allow access to not just his computers and other physical storage, but also his email, websites and social network accounts

Source:
Why The War On Piracy is all at sea?


I haven't seen any recent information about how Burt is going to settle this massive debt........but I assume he has to make regular part payments.
And if his income ever increases, he wins a lottery or whatever he'll probably be forced to pay as much as possible.

Basically he'll be poor for a long time........unless some sort of financial miracle happens in his life

[soysauce2rice]

Even if he downloaded 1000+ gigs of stuff odds are rather low (see close to 0) that he gets caught...

Unless he's an complete idiot and does something stupid like downloading the latest movies/music from torrents without any further safety methods or brags about it in front of the police/while showing his real face over the Internet... (and yes, there are really people that stupid)

Yep, from my experience and other people's stories, it seems to be a better chance of getting caught for downloading the latest thing.

We were new to torrenting at the time, so we kinda had a spree. Say the latest movie was 300. Well, I downloaded like 10-20GB of stuff but it wasn't that movie, someone in the house got caught and we all got an email warning.

The warning is kinda like, hey don't torrent for 2 weeks or a month... then you're back under the radar supposedly. Well, that's for me since I'm torrenting again as is. I think we had 2 warnings so far.