Illegal MP3 download prevention

Mutant_Fruit

While i don't agree 100% with his method of solving his problem (i would have used limiting), i have to admit, it was pretty ingenious.

Congrats on the successful prank

fragile

Originally posted by zoro
I've enjoyed myself immensly, and I'm glad that so many others enjoyed my little story too

youre going to spend the rest of your life suspicious of every legal letter you get in the post, because years from now youre little sister will realise how easily she was made the fool of and she will get her own back :eek:

zoro

Hehe Don't say you didnt like it

Mutant: I'm looking at that already, but iptables just kept f*cking me over so I needed a quick fix

rymus

any chance you could scan & save the letter as a PDF or something? I'd like to put "The MP3 prank" on my website (with your copyright approval of course)...

zoro

Rymus: No problem what soever I'll grab the letter and envelope today and scan them for you when I get a chance!

I know that this thread will eventually be discovered by some of her friends, as she's currently telling EVERYONE she has ever known about the letter, but it'll be worth it

zoro

*bump* a little update here - she's posted a thread on the boards of her favourite boyband telling everyone about it!

They're all sh*tting themselves!!!

My what tangled webs we weave eh?

*edit* but they all seem to think that if they don't use MSN to transfer the files then they won't get caught out ... hmm, maybe I was too specific with my letter...

bk

zoro, you really should be careful about how far this spreads.

You could be arrested for fraud for impersonating another person or group.

I know of a person who received a letter from his county council, informing him that he had to cut down a tree in his garden. He contacted the council and discovered that it never came from them. The council contacted the gardai, who unsurprisingly tracked it back to his neighbour, who was then charged by the gardai.

zoro

zoro, you really should be careful about how far this spreads.You could be arrested for fraud for impersonating another person or group.

I have thought about this already - and although it may be naieve of me, I'd imagine that the fact that I put the sh*ts up a hell of a lot of teenagers that were actively sharing copyrighted music with each other, and have since stopped, then they may not be so strict.

That said, you are right, but I'm not all that worried that this would be traced back to me. I would have no problem with owning up to it in person if it caused a lot of grief for the IMRO. But to be honest, I think this prank has done more good than harm for them

Thanks for your post though - it has been noted, and taken seriously.

Zoro

Sarn

Very entertaining, very evil.

I think you'd get a pat on the back from the RIAA for reducing illegal downloads.

mad m

very entertaining ......now if i can think of a way to stop my wife buying crap with a letter like that ill be a rich man....:D

zoro

do you want me to work on a letter?

RobertFoster

Originally posted by zoro
Rymus: No problem what soever I'll grab the letter and envelope today and scan them for you when I get a chance!

I know that this thread will eventually be discovered by some of her friends, as she's currently telling EVERYONE she has ever known about the letter, but it'll be worth it

any chance of posting it here, or providing a link to where Rymus has it...?

rymus

when I get the details and have the thing up on my site I'll provide a link.

zoro

Well if you're impatient, the letter is in the very first post of this thread I never got a chance to get the letter this morning, and I won't be home tonight, so I'll do it all tomorrow afternoon if you dont mind waiting!

rymus

no bother at all.. I'm not impatient.. it's not like I'm working to a deadline or anything

istep

Pure class ....zoro take a bow :cool:

zoro

*bow*

I'll have that letter tomorrow

halenger

Always tomorrow Dan, huh?

Just joking. Already told you this is pure evil and legend but it's worth reiterating! Hehe.

Sully

Ha, what a scam :P Myself and another guy sent a letter to another guy's parents telling him he was suspended from the school. We typed it on the offical school paper with the header etc and exactly the font they use etc. They killed him, mother was crying and all so we had to tell them it was us: thought it was really funny :P

- Sully

Spunog UIE

suppose thats one way to do it. Me I yank the cable and put in my headphones, their lungs tire eventually.

"THE INTERNETS BROKEN" "busy, go away"

aidan_walsh

DingChavez

You know...if I was Zoro's sister. I would look up the letter on the internet to check if other people got anything similar it. This post would be what I find........

Yakuza

/golfclap the almost 1.5 year old post /bump.