ISP accuses customer of pirating for downloading an Ubuntu ISO

Lounge
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I do hope Canonical’s legal team takes action against Comcast. Apparently I can’t download Linux ISOs now :wink:

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Shoot! Ive been seeding Endeavour ISO all these days.

3

Arrr it’s ‘talk like a pirate day’ already?

4

Well, there’s no Xfinity in India :wink:

5

Yaaaaarrrr!!! :parrot: :pirate_flag:

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Apparently Xfinity, specifically, send out random threats like this to any customer they have that use a torrent client, period. They don’t even look at what file is downloaded. So yes, they are lying, the copyright owner has most of the time actually not been in contact with them. This is a preventive measure to avoid having to actually look bad in case of actual copyright infringement.

7

He should have downloaded EOS :upside_down_face:

8

Arr! Better get a new ISP.

9

Even if Xfinity (Comcast) offered ultra-high-speed Internet access FREE OF CHARGE, I wouldn’t deal with that company!

Lawrence

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Unfortunately in the Bay Area the biggest choices are AT&T and Comcast, the rest are resellers; I was using Comcast before but due to a myriad of problems I switched to AT&T, now I have a myriad of problems with it :rofl: but I do have an 1 year contract that’s almost over. Fortunately I only started torrenting ISOs after I switched