seacow1g 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 Hey guys so today after playing for the past 3 weeks I got an email from my internet service provider Comcast that I've broken the law and if I continue to play on Elysium I will have my service suspended or terminated. Anyone else getting threat emails like these? How can I protect myself from getting caught? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
desst 3 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 shit's got real 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gotmilk0112 10 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) Yeah, uh...I'm highly doubting that an ISP is targeting a private server of a 13 year old game, targeting it seriously enough to send threatening emails to people. No, playing on private servers is not illegal. You are not breaking the law. Hosting the server is illegal, playing on it is not. That email you got is a blatant scam. If Blizzard wanted to shut down private servers, they would do it themselves, instead of telling ISPs to send threatening emails to their customers. Edited January 23, 2017 by gotmilk0112 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seacow1g 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 I did some more research on this and the email I got is exactly the same as the kind Comcast sends its users for copyright infrigement by downloading illegal music and movies on bit torrent....except in this case I'm being targeted for playing on Elysium. I didnt get a notification for downloading the client 3 weeks ago when I started playing.....no I'm getting it now which means they are tracking me when I'm actually playing. This sucks cause I'm finally getting close to 60 on my warrior ☹️ 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rala 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 Get a VPN or a new ISP. I'd go with the former. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hauzer 1 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 They are not tracking you playing on Elysium... If you got a letter, it is for seeding the WoW client. It probably takes 3 weeks to get the letter, plus it sounds like you don't really know what you are doing so I wouldn't be surprised if you are still seeding it right now, lol. If you got the torrent from TPB and are not using a VPN or limiting your seeding it is not a huge surprise. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fyzitian 2 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 Could always just ignore the stupid letters they send. They never follow up with anything and never have disconnected me after like 30 or so of them over the past 3 years. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leeya 1 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 Used to work for them, they're just dumb letters that won't be followed through with. IF they do follow through, which I doubt, just say that someone must've "hacked into your network" because "you have no idea what they're talking about." *wink wink* But yeah, make sure you're not seeding any torrents. Was your letter that specific and said Elysium? If so, that's weird. They're normally very generic. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Holkan 13 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Hauzer said: They are not tracking you playing on Elysium... If you got a letter, it is for seeding the WoW client. It probably takes 3 weeks to get the letter, plus it sounds like you don't really know what you are doing so I wouldn't be surprised if you are still seeding it right now, lol. If you got the torrent from TPB and are not using a VPN or limiting your seeding it is not a huge surprise. this. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noob257 36 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 LOL what's next? "The porn you're watching is disgusting, please stop or we'll tell your wife!" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Internet911 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 12 hours ago, seacow1g said: Hey guys so today after playing for the past 3 weeks I got an email from my internet service provider Comcast that I've broken the law and if I continue to play on Elysium I will have my service suspended or terminated. Anyone else getting threat emails like these? How can I protect myself from getting caught? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) 12 hours ago, seacow1g said: Hey guys so today after playing for the past 3 weeks I got an email from my internet service provider Comcast that I've broken the law and if I continue to play on Elysium I will have my service suspended or terminated. Anyone else getting threat emails like these? How can I protect myself from getting caught? Can you upload a copy of the letter on imgur -and paste the link here- for our perusal? P.S.: Delete your name and date by using MS Paint before you upload it. Edited January 23, 2017 by Erjh8765 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Revo 34 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 fake OP 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Patbateman 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 24 minutes ago, Revo said: fake OP Is fake. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboswaggens 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 OP is blizzard spy! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GoForTheMoon 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 This is automated and sent to you because you were seen seeding a torrent that had the name "World of Warcraft" on it 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FullRetard 1 Report post Posted January 23, 2017 Post the letter or I don't believe you. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noob257 36 Report post Posted January 24, 2017 12 hours ago, GoForTheMoon said: This is automated and sent to you because you were seen seeding a torrent that had the name "World of Warcraft" on it This is retarded. Back in Vanilla, every german WoW fansite offered mirrors when a new patch came out. The Client was downloadable for YEARS. Filesharing WoW related files was never a problem. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smokeit 26 Report post Posted January 24, 2017 LOL this got to be a joke, if not, AMERICA AT IT AGAIN KEK, thanks obama. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riplip 2 Report post Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) He didn't even get an email @smokeit kys honestly Edited January 24, 2017 by riplip 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GoForTheMoon 0 Report post Posted January 26, 2017 On 1/24/2017 at 10:50 AM, noob257 said: This is retarded. Back in Vanilla, every german WoW fansite offered mirrors when a new patch came out. The Client was downloadable for YEARS. Filesharing WoW related files was never a problem. Filesharing =/= Torrenting Filtering torrent contents manually and contacting people manually would be a waste of time considering how often people use torrents these days, so they just use a list of copyrighted products that automatically get flagged. with some minimal checks. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 27, 2017 If this is legit, I'd like to see the document as well (with your private information blurred). However, as someone stated, it's probably for downloading the client via torrent. Out of the 300,000+ accounts we have - this is the first I've heard of it. Tyche 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
