Try netflix or Block Buster on line. For BB it works out to about $1 a movie. How big were the movies you down loaded in gigs? 9,4 or way smaller.

If you feel like risking it for $1 a movie you can try full encryption. That might fool them for a while as long as you don't pull too many too often or too fast.

Someone was telling me that your internet company can only detect that you are downloading stuff if you only share files, but downloading they couldn't but that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense though.

I got a letter as well.


get peerguardian2

Peer Guardian will not help that. Peer Guardian MIGHT help you doge the big one if you use simple P2P. If you got a letter you blew it. You should have been using forced encryption all along. Then you might have had a few more months. Now they will be watching you. Encryption might be too late.

Comcast users will likely be getting the same. They were slapped down by the FCC Friday. They can't be traffic shaping. Letters will probably be plan B.

ok i have read through all the post concerning cox and letters of death,about 2 months ago i got one for 'there will be blood'ok installed peerguard 2,dl 'the hulk'got another 'letter of death;and i between that i thought dl late night early morning would be suffice-no!woke up my connection was shut down,panicked, rebooted thinking anything other then cox tried again same hrs guess what locked out again.ok so i tried this one,i didn't go after latest movies but just documentaries,no problem,yet,so i dont want to be shut off but i do know of certain movie sites that are legit,but of course you got to pay up front.so i am no computer tech but just a guy who wanted to look at some movies,so i know peer doesn't work so i guess I'll stick to docu or shell out a few bucks and install grabit program or something like that until.just my .02

Peerguardian will not save you. It is made to do something different. You will lose your service if you don't wise up. You have used up all your warnings. If they catch you again your service will be terminated. They are most likely watching your IP address for more activity. Since you have stated

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I would give it up. You are out of your league. Cox is just waiting for you to make one more wrong move.

If you only had one warning it would be smart to encrypt your flows. That is a setting for most torrent clients. You just put it to the highest setting which means NEVER sends or recieves anything but encrypted torrents. I BELIEVE Cox reads your packets and only smacks you if you are pirating. That may ony be true for the warnings. As a two-time loser they may just blow you away with the first provocation. Cox and Comcast only play hard ball in areas where they are the only game in town. They are not stupid. Comcast does not care if you are legal or not they smack you for volume. They promised the FCC that they would stop that practise but they didn't say when. The FCC ruled beating up on persons doing legal stuff within the terms of their contract was illegal. Apparently they care as much about the FCC as they do their own customers. In my town a very dissatisfied customer went into their customer service center with a hammer and started busting up computers. I love that story! I think she only had to pay for the damage and do community service. Apparently, the judge thought she had been provoked.

I suggest you pay for your movies. With Block Buster on line I get almost 4 movies a week for $18 a month. That come out to a little more than $1 a movie. They have more resolution than what you are probably downloading. They are about 9 G instead of the usual 1 G files.

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No you don't. Those are just sites that you pay for what you get on other sites for free.

wow,thanks for abuse,but how long have YOU worked for the cable co.?before you answer please do a goggle search for LEGIT movie sites and i'm pretty sure you will find something...as for me not being a computer tech isn't that what i said?i just made a reply i didn't say i AM part of the blessed trinity,like you,but either way i do thank you because of people like you 'us regular people would not have someone to look up to!!! hola@urboy!

I did google LEGIT movie and I was wrong. Sorry for being an asshole! I was way more harsh then my usual. I was trying to make a point so you would think twice about continuing your downloading and lose your service.

However, peerguardian will still not help you. It's main purpose is to watch for certain IP addresses trying to access your computer. The ISP stations are probably not on 'the list' and do not try to look inside your computer. They can read your traffic. If you were only downloading legal stuff then you should write them a nasty-gram. Comcast is already in trouble with the FCC because they are punishing persons that are using torrents legaly. Until, the Comcast's punishment is known, Cox may be a bit gun-shy. I would still make them retract their nasty gram before starting up any P2P activity legal or not. I would also contact the movie site and complain to them. They should sic lawyers after Cox. After the FCC ruling a lawyer has all the fire power he would need to sue the hell out of them! You have the opportunity to strike a mighty blow against the bastards. Go get em!

I just thought of something after I posted. Contact the movie company first. If you can cc their lawyers on your nasty gramm I suspect your letter will get instant respect. It is one thing to complain and another to give the movie site's lawyers a target.

Cox can still can you even though you are 100% correct. Comcast is a living example of that. They are in-line for fines and sanctions from the FCC. They promised to stop their ilegal activity but I think they have continued weeks after that statement. I guess they never stated when they would stop. However, I suspect the FCC punshment will be stiffer becuase they ignored their ruling. However, that is not stopping them. It might take forever to get re-instated if Cox shuts you down. Then you would be dead right!

This is interesting news. Cox is not nearly as careful as they claim to be. Encryption might not help you since they are not really checking to see if you are legal as they imply they are. I understand their problems since they can not tell that movie is legal. I bet they can only tell you are down loading a movie and the title. It may be impossible for them to do more than that.

i thank u for the retrack,and will also go with some of the suggestions,since the last letter i haven't touched a bit torrent.but i do miss the documents,either way keep up the good work.

Here is a way to throw a spanner in their works in fine style..

There is PLENTY of perfectly legal stuff available on p2p networks.

Join this site and start downloading from them. http://linuxtracker.org/index.php
Everything there is 100% legal.. if cox start threatening again show them exactly what you are downloading, and write to your elected representative protesting about being bullied for using a legal service in a legal way that you have paid for. It doesn't matter what you download from there.. or even if you want it. It's the packets and the protocol that cox are looking for... and by doing legal stuff you can royally stick it to them.

You will have allies like Richard Stallman and the FSF right behind you. They sling a pretty big lump of lead when it comes to companies behaving in unethical and anti customer ways. I'm not even going to start on the problems that cox could face if after doing legal p2p you get another letter... that's illegal data interception.. spying.. they need a court order to do that I'm afraid.

varnull, good suggestions though she was busted for down loading legal information as it was. LEGIT movie sites is smart enough to use torrents to distribute their videos. After the FCC ruling against Comcast shaping web traffic to their own liking as illegal, LEGIT movie sites could and should sue Cox easily.

I know several persons that saw reports of their P2P activity from Cox after getting their service cut off. You are saying that was illegal? That is not surprising.

If ISPs can't come down on users without just cause and they are not allowed to gather evidence they are between a rock and a hard place. I guess that is too bad for them. Maybe they should just start running fiber and leave their users alone. This is all about bandwidth. Cable Cos don't have the bandwidth for all the hidef they want to sell. So they go after the internet users that are actually using what they paid for.