bazzer:

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).

xpd: Gee, am I the black sheep of Geekzone members ? :)

xpd: So it seems Xnet are the only ones who forward on the notices ;)