It was actually an overseas company acting on MGM's behalf, contacting the ISP who then contacted us. The ISP was good, but in order for the notice to be closed, we had to reply via the company's website, since it was our IP that had been tracked. That IP had to be the one used for replying. Not closing it wasn't an option. And to my mind, I could have lied, said they were mistaken, etc. but then what happens if they find out I gave a false statement?
Reading through all the guff, there was no harm in replying. Basically they make it pretty clear it's not worth them going after someone unless it's an ongoing thing, and there's no danger of being sued if you remove the material. Which is reasonably civilised, compared to the companies that try to make examples of people. The company MGM uses also has a bunch of protocols in place which mean they can't legally share my details with MGM unless I'm caught doing the wrong thing some more, but they can pass back anything included in the additional information box anonymously.
And my attitude is still one of fighting the crap where I find it. If MGM had a system to pay for and download the episodes, I would be happy to use it, so long as the prices were reasonable. If they pressured Channel 7 into actually showing the bloody show properly, then again, I wouldn't have been downloading it.
Actually, what I would love to do is track the IPs of all the MGM bigwigs, and see how much illegally downloaded stuff is in their homes. You can't tell me their kids aren't downloading stuff on the sly :)
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Reading through all the guff, there was no harm in replying. Basically they make it pretty clear it's not worth them going after someone unless it's an ongoing thing, and there's no danger of being sued if you remove the material. Which is reasonably civilised, compared to the companies that try to make examples of people. The company MGM uses also has a bunch of protocols in place which mean they can't legally share my details with MGM unless I'm caught doing the wrong thing some more, but they can pass back anything included in the additional information box anonymously.
And my attitude is still one of fighting the crap where I find it. If MGM had a system to pay for and download the episodes, I would be happy to use it, so long as the prices were reasonable. If they pressured Channel 7 into actually showing the bloody show properly, then again, I wouldn't have been downloading it.
Actually, what I would love to do is track the IPs of all the MGM bigwigs, and see how much illegally downloaded stuff is in their homes. You can't tell me their kids aren't downloading stuff on the sly :)