Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-20 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 well, i think i have good news. although the rep from EFF said that my internet agreement "could be construed to at least cause [me] problems with retaining [my] service, if not to win a lawsuit against [me]" i decided to respond to Qwest's response

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-20 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 thanks all for your timely responses. frankly, my PC is the one accessing the various destinations routed through Tor; it is not like i have an open switch or wifi network that other pc's can freely connect to and use my DSL line. further, it does

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-20 Thread Jon
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:54 AM, grarpamp wrote: >> your residential DSL service >> is only for the use of your  pcs >> within your home. > SCAR: I believe the bottom line here is the " DSL is only for the use of ' your ' pc . I never had that issue with DSL, but Cable I did and I had to go to

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-19 Thread grarpamp
> your residential DSL service > is only for the use of your pcs > within your home. > You also are responsible for any harmful or illegal traffic that comes > from your DSL modem. When others among you are faced with contracts that state these two things... it may be worthwhile to defer mention

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-18 Thread Mike Perry
Hrmm. You probably shouldn't be running an exit router on your home Internet connection, either. To my knowledge, no one has ever had their door kicked in in the USA for running an exit router, but there have been phone calls and visits. In other countries, people have had all of their computing eq

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-18 Thread Kyle Williams
On 12/18/2010 10:20 AM, scar wrote: > Mike Perry @ 12/17/2010 07:24 PM: > > See: > > > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment > > > thanks. i checked that out. i took the first step of directly > contacting my ISP (Qwest) and mentioned my reasons for running th

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-18 Thread krishna e bera
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:20:46AM -0700, scar wrote: > misconceptions, the part referring to section 7 of the service agreement > seems relevant. suggestions? > > > Dmca violations are treated seriously by Qwest and if they continue you > will lose your DSL service. > You mentioned you were ope

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-18 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mike Perry @ 12/17/2010 07:24 PM: > See: > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment > thanks. i checked that out. i took the first step of directly contacting my ISP (Qwest) and mentioned my reasons for running t

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-17 Thread grarpamp
Mostly off-topic, except in regard to a possible defense for Tor relays/users in the event any go that far. I'm amazed they are able to lodge cases based on what appear to be BT scrapes of BT announcements. Certainly your announcement could be just that, metadata only. And your file could be /dev