Here’s the rather boring sequence of the convo…but I know a few hardcores out there will like it.

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—–Original Message—–

From: oo7 l33t [mailto:t3singh@uwaterloo.ca]

Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:42 AM

To: XXXXXX@mpaa.org

Subject: Problem

Please note: this email requires a prompt reply.

Hi there (let’s keep things friendly),

I got a phone call from my ISP today that says I had a movie on my server

that I didn’t have.

I have a coding and development server that is available only to me. This

server has only the graphics and computer programs that I develop. One of

the graphics “posters” I developed was called Austin Powers 3. It has a

collage of pictures from freely available sources (on the official

website) and the creation of this poster (to use as wallpaper on a

computer) is completely legal.

What I want to know is why you deemed that image to be a movie, and why

you contacted my ISP and told them I had Austin Powers 3 “Goldmember” on

my server. I am disgusted that your researchers would attempt to get my

connection (which I depend on to do my job) removed because of a piece of

poster art that I made (legally).

Second of all, how were your researchers able to visit my server? There

is a disclamer saying only this:

This is a private server, it belongs to me and only I may enter.

So what makes your researchers (again, not pointing fingers at you) deem

that they are me?

I expect a reply as soon as possible as I need to explain to my ISP what

is going on. I need my internet connection to do my job so that I can eat

and survive and the last thing I need is some people to tell me that a 60

kb image constitutes an illegal movie.

Please reply soon.

Tushar Singh

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—–Reply—–

You received a reference number in your e-mail.  Please give me that number so I can forward this to a supervisor.

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—–My Reply—–

Hi there,

    I’m getting a reference number from my ISP but if you could get

your supervisor to email me.  Also if you could forward the following to

your supervisor:

I got a complaint through my ISP regarding Harry Potter and Austin Powers.

I have neither of these on my system.  Rather I have a private server and

I just did a search on my server and did not find any results on Harry

Potter or Austin Powers but I did find results for Pottery and Austin.

The results appeared because my mother runs a Pottery business and I have

made her website and left it on the server as inspiration for fellow web

designers.

If found results for Austin because I have a car and I took pictures of

it.  Coincidentally the car is called:  Austin Mini.

So I’m wondering how that happenned?  Also, I found several text files

(with nothing in them) on my server:  they were called by funny names

(like vgl or something) and they had goldmember in their name but the

extension was .txt and they 0 bytes in size.

Please reply (and I’m getting the number from my ISP)

Tushar

Quack

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—–Reply—–

I can only forward this information with a reference number because we literally take down thousands sites daily.

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—–My Reply—–

can you do anything with my IP?

216.75.173.xx

Thank you

Tushar

Quack

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—–Reply—–

I tried, but couldn’t find it, I really need the ref. number.

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—–My Reply—–

Hi there again,

        Really sorry to take up so much of your time but my ISP just told

me it was Mediaforce that filed the complaint.  Very very sorry to bother you.

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—–Reply—–

Thank you for letting me know.

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And that’s that…