help with email from ISP??

[borat_sagdiyev]

so about 2 months ago, i downloaded star wars empire at war, just to see if the game was any good so i could buy it to play online if i liked it. so yesterday i get an email from my ISP (rogers) stating that I have broken copyright yada yada yada... Im not sure if this email is real because it did not have a rogers symbol or anything, it just said dear (my moms name, the internet service holder), and all this shit about copyright and stuff. and then it said what i downloaded (star wars empire at war) and it said I used "bittorrent" as the protocol, but i used bitcomet.

so im not sure if I should believe this. I talked to my friend about it and he said he got a similar one before from paramount pictures, but they didnt do anything after and he said it was a trojan and it wasnt from paramount. so should i be scared, or should i just let it pass? i normally dont download stuff, it was only that one time where I wanted to try out the game . it sucked....

 

[HRHunteRHR]

so about 2 months ago, i downloaded star wars empire at war, just to see if the game was any good so i could buy it to play online if i liked it. so yesterday i get an email from my ISP (rogers) stating that I have broken copyright yada yada yada... Im not sure if this email is real because it did not have a rogers symbol or anything, it just said dear (my moms name, the internet service holder), and all this shit about copyright and stuff. and then it said what i downloaded (star wars empire at war) and it said I used "bittorrent" as the protocol, but i used bitcomet.

so im not sure if I should believe this. I talked to my friend about it and he said he got a similar one before from paramount pictures, but they didnt do anything after and he said it was a trojan and it wasnt from paramount. so should i be scared, or should i just let it pass? i normally dont download stuff, it was only that one time where I wanted to try out the game . it sucked....

Call them up and ask them if they sent you an email.

 

[prosser13]

It sounds real. Firstly, Bitcomet is a BitTorrent client, so you would have been using the BitTorrent client. The best thing to do is stop downloading anything, just in case.

 

[mammikoura]

It sounds real. Firstly, Bitcomet is a BitTorrent client, so you would have been using the BitTorrent client. The best thing to do is stop downloading anything, just in case.

agreed, just stop downloading.

 

[joe pic]

my isp doesn't care what i do, *knock wood*
but if i were you, i wouldn't call them and ask them, just stop downloading.

 

[prosser13]

Yeah, they might do something worse if you contact them about it...

 

[G35x]

Man, what isp do you guys have? I didnt know they can do that, I have Verizon DSL and i download stuff 24/7 and not once did they ever call my house or send me an email..

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

well i replied to the email, cuz it told me too, but i wont download anymore

 

[prosser13]

What exactly did the email say? Anything about consequences, or did it just say it was a warning?

Dev, I have Freedom2Surf (I live in the UK), and as long as you don't download more than 25GB a week they let you get on with it.

 

[joxley1990]

Our ISP dont evan have our emails lol