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- d_rek0
whatsup,
Yeah, it's happened to me before.Your ISP is legally obligated to give you this warning when they are contacted by a third party representing the copyrighted material. It's basically for the ISP to cover their ass. They'll only terminate service if the third party chooses legal action, again in which case they're legally obligated to do so.
But what happened to your 'friend' is that they were probably downloading copyrighted material from a PUBLIC torrent. Public torrents are accessible by anyone and all ip addresses who are connected to them can be viewed by any other ip connected to that torrent. This is why it is INCREDIBLY important to find and use a private torrent tracking community (such as d e m o n o i d ) if you're going to download pirated wares. Private trackers enjoy much better protection since you typically have to be a member of the community to be able to access the torrent in the first place. Also, some private trackers will block ip sharing, which doesn't allow you or anyone else connected to torrent to see anyone elses ip's. That's not to say they're immune but you'd be much better off trying to get into a private tracker community.