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  #215843 19-May-2009 10:11
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Gee, am I the black sheep of Geekzone members ? :)




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  #215844 19-May-2009 10:17
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Nope




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  #215850 19-May-2009 11:03
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xpd: Gee, am I the black sheep of Geekzone members ? :)



There surely must be more people wo have received some sort of 'threat' or notice?  Or are all geekzoners law abiding citizens who would never download something they didn't pay for or own?

Or perhaps it's because most notices end up going to IP printers and wireless access points?  I see this document has already been read by at least one geekzone member.

I am using the above PDF as part of my study, interesting reading about the technical details of torrents (again, not passing judgement on the legallity, don't want to start a flame war!).

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  #215913 19-May-2009 14:06
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bump (its a quick survey, I am only keeping it going for 48 hours)

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  #215938 19-May-2009 14:45
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No.

I don't know the details of your study, but surely our answers are only relevant if you know how many people should be getting notices.  Otherwise, what conclusion can you draw?  xpd is the only one downloading TV shows?

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  #215944 19-May-2009 14:52
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nope never, usenet / ftp topsites / fxp boards ftw!

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  #215961 19-May-2009 15:10
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bazzer: No.

I don't know the details of your study, but surely our answers are only relevant if you know how many people should be getting notices.? Otherwise, what conclusion can you draw?? xpd is the only one downloading TV shows?


Or at least Im the only one brave enough to admit it :)





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#215963 19-May-2009 15:12
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xpd: Or at least Im the only one brave enough to admit it :)

bqx: Or at least Im the only one stupid brave enough to admit it :)









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  #215968 19-May-2009 15:31
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no

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  #215971 19-May-2009 15:35
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bazzer: No.

I don't know the details of your study, but surely our answers are only relevant if you know how many people should be getting notices.  Otherwise, what conclusion can you draw?  xpd is the only one downloading TV shows?


My original intention was to quote the percentage of technical people (i.e. those with the knowledge of how to download torrents etc) that had received notices (or other communication) from their ISP or another organisaion, and whether or not those accusations where valid.

I was hoping to see something like "... out of 100 comments, 27 people receieved communciations regarding their downloading of materially considered under copyright, however 9 people where incorrectly accused and had never downloaded any music they had not purchased" (numbers made up)

This relates to the linked PDF in another of my posts about the inaccuracy of the methods used in tracking downloaders.  Hope that answers your question.

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  #215974 19-May-2009 15:39
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Gee thanks Tony :-p
I did consider saying it myself.... :)




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timbosan:
bazzer: No.

I don't know the details of your study, but surely our answers are only relevant if you know how many people should be getting notices.  Otherwise, what conclusion can you draw?  xpd is the only one downloading TV shows?


My original intention was to quote the percentage of technical people (i.e. those with the knowledge of how to download torrents etc) that had received notices (or other communication) from their ISP or another organisaion, and whether or not those accusations where valid.

I was hoping to see something like "... out of 100 comments, 27 people receieved communciations regarding their downloading of materially considered under copyright, however 9 people where incorrectly accused and had never downloaded any music they had not purchased" (numbers made up)

This relates to the linked PDF in another of my posts about the inaccuracy of the methods used in tracking downloaders.  Hope that answers your question.

I guess it does.  Just seems a bit pointless.  You're not discovering anything about the distribution of the notifications.  I think currently most ISPs ignore it if they get an infringement notice from the States or something, don't they?  So what does your quick survey tell us?  Not a lot.  We don't know which ISPs are used, we don't know the habits of the user, we haven't learnt anything about it at all.  I wouldn't expect a lot of false positives in New Zealand, did you?

P.S. Sorry to hijack your thread, I was just worried about the relevance of your data in proving your hypothesis (although I still don't know what it is).

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  #216004 19-May-2009 17:19
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