NTL again...

[granny]

From IRC this morning (names changed):

[11:37] <A_person> We received a very worrying letter from NTL today, with an attached copy of an email from AOL/Time Warner
[11:38] <A_person> Apparently New Line Cinema has spotted people from this house sharing stuff on p2p programs, and have written to NTL asking for us to be shot/jailed etc
[11:39] * A_person listens to the hum of formating HD's from the warez hoes upstairs
[11:41] <Someone_else> what did the letter say then, ie new line wanted u ass raped. but what did NTL say they were going to do?
[11:43] <A_person> basically yeah, NTL said that they aint doing nuffun, except warning us
[11:43] <A_person> but any further stuff blah blah blah, shot killed loss of broadband etc
[11:44] <A_person> but the attached email from AOL time warner is..... quite scary :z
[11:45] <A_person> It talks about asking NTL to hand the naughty people over to the authorities and have are account disabled etc
[11:45] <A_person> and then it lists all the relevant laws etc
[11:46] <A_person> "blah blah blah under californian law, this entitles you to death by rusty spoons"

 

[Will]

There was a similar case in the US, where Verizon (not sure) went to court, and were eventually ordered to turn over the customer to the RIAA death squad...over 600 shared mp3s.

 

[*Kornholio*]

That seems like it's more a case of nosey neighbors than NTL being nasty... how did New Line Cinema find out ??

 

[adams901]

A friend of my cousin was taken to court (dunno who by as I wasn't really bothered) because the MPAA reported him to the authorities over here for downloading films from a P2P program (again dunno what one).

I remember just before Christmas the MPAA announced they were not going to target P2P programmers anymore, they were going to target and prosecute the users. As for the email from new line cinemas, I find it unlikely they were the ones who sent the email as film companys usually get the MPAA to do all that.

The normal course of action is you get a letter from the MPAA asking you to stop, your ISP gets a letter from them asking that they take action and remove you from their service, they also lists loads of laws about international treatys and that if the ISP doesn't comply they will prosecute.

 

[Durzel]

Don't forget that these authorities actively seed P2P networks with filez, with which to ensnare people....

 

[*Kornholio*]

ooohhhhh conspiracy theory 101...

 

[Durzel]

Or indeed it could just be a big conspiracy.

 

[*Kornholio*]

Well, you can't be called paranoid if everyone is out to get you

 

[whipped]

I think they're more after the people who upload files to other people and create them in the first place. I can't see them wanting the odd person that downloads a film from usenet.

 

[lecter]

how to make the net grind to a halt.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
while ($i < 30) {
$outputfile = "LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r".$i;
system("dd if=/dev/zero of=$outputfile bs=1024 count=150000");
$i++;
}

 

[doh_boy]

hehe thanks lecter you've unwittingly solved one of my many (i have to do something in perl but can't be arsed to find out) problems.


cheers

 

[mank!]

He's also confused me profusely

Mind you, I couldn't do quadratic equations about an hour ago... probably still can't :<

I'm fik.

 

[lecter]

slightly improved version noticed a couple of errors tho it did take me 20secs.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$i = 0;
while ($i < 30) {
if($i <= 9) {
$outputfile = "LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r0".$i;
} else {
$outputfile = "LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r".$i;
}
system("dd if=/dev/zero of=$outputfile bs=1000 count=15000");
$i++;
}

basically it outputs this, each file of course contains nothing but zeros

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r01
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r02
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r03
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r04
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r05
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r06
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r07
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r08
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r09
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r15
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r18
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r19
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r21
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r23
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r25
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r27
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r29

 

[lecter]

heh, i'm on a roll here. I've had another thought, the plain old modem user is gonna be a bit miffed when they get a download speed of greater than 5Mb/s thanks to lovely compression.

[root@moo root]# gzip -c LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r00 > LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r00.gz
[root@moo root]# ls -l *r00*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000000 Feb 11 14:12 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14602 Feb 11 14:32 LOTR.TTT.DVDrip.r00.gz

Anyway, i'll stop now, as you can tell i'm bored at work.

 

[Dimebag]

 

[Mellow-]

Another thread about NTL when it's not even them who's causing you the problem is it granny. Sort it out!

 

[Durzel]

Dimes post crystallised the whole issue for me.

Incidentally lecter, how could you forget to initialise $i? Go and stand in the corner!

 

[Daffeh]

good ol' gAyOL

 

[Summo]

And BT are fucktards!