Eircom Warning Letter

pctech

hi everybody just wondering if anyone has gotten a letter from eircom saying that they have found that you were downloading music on such a date?. they then reccommend that you run software to get rid of any potential illegal software/music. or has anyone got banned from eircom and gotten 3 strikes? i havent found any reports of anyone haveing their broadband disconnected, maybe im wrong?

pctech

yoyo

pctech wrote: »

hi everybody just wondering if anyone has gotten a letter from eircom saying that they have found that you were downloading music on such a date?. they then reccommend that you run software to get rid of any potential illegal software/music. or has anyone got banned from eircom and gotten 3 strikes? i havent found any reports of anyone haveing their broadband disconnected, maybe im wrong?

pctech

Stop using peer 2 peer (Torrents, Limewire etc.) software or even better switch to another provider .

Nick

Simi

If anyone had received a letter i'm sure someone would have mentioned it on here by now.

If you're concerned about your privacy download PeerBlock.

jor el

Simi wrote: »

If anyone had received a letter i'm sure someone would have mentioned it on here by now.

It has been mentioned on numerous occasions. Many people have received such letters.

Simi

Really? I hadn't noticed. Weird.

Ok then OP try PeerBlock and if you get another letter switch ISP.

yoyo

Simi wrote: »

If anyone had received a letter i'm sure someone would have mentioned it on here by now.

If you're concerned about your privacy download PeerBlock.

Plenty have received one, my cousin did, for downloading a Michael Jackson song off Limewire :P

Nick

bambam

As previous poster suggested. Change providers.

Red Alert

Change ISP. UPC, for all their faults, did not capitulate to the vested interests in the same way that Eircom did.

Robdude

I'm new to Ireland; is it legal to download material that is copy written in another country?

I hope that's not a silly question; I just really don't know.

tricky D

Nope, not legal.

dr.quirky

Does anyone here know if the whole eircom monitoring business and sending out letters, refers specifically to P2P music file sharing?

asking because, when im home here in my ma's , ISP is Eircom, I don't use torrents for downloading any music just in case. I was stuck for a few tracks and downloaded them from a youtube video converter thing, does this kind of thing fall under what eircom will send out letters for?

DavyD_83

Yep,
I've received one letter from Eircom; technically they warn you for uploading of copyrighted material.

As I understand there's a 3 strikes system. I've changed settings because I was never uploading intentionally in the first place. Hopefully this means no more letters, but if i get another one i'll just be moving to UPC.
I'm planning on moving anyway, but just being lazy about it. If Eircom go warning me again, they're just telling me to get BB with somebody else.