Napalm Riot

a/

If there's more than one machine at your property youre more than likely running nat of some description. Go to www.whatismyip.com and check it out. If its still not your ip, have you rebooted your router since feb. Most ISP's dont issue static mappings to home users. so it still could be you. The closest you can get to findint out in my opinion is using www.samspade.org to check out who the offending ip belongs to. If its your isp, it could have been you. If youre runnning wireless in your house, it still could have been you. by someone wallhacking your network (ridiculously easy to do.)

b/ if a then good. if !a then oh dear. Its possible it was downloaded and burned to disc. Raid bedrooms. Or just dont bother.

c/ as explained in a/ if youre running nat they'll trace it to your network ingress. which will be your router. thats as far as they can go.

d/ You shouldnt. And if you feel aggrieved and youre in a state of a/ then feel free to spam your ISP's abuse email and or report them to your local RIR. (ARIN or APNIC in your case I should think, unless youre british like me in which case its RIPE) Not that they'll do anything, but what the hell, its a laugh and rattles cages at times.

e/ F*ck it. Dont bother doing it. In all honesty, such companies aren't generally out to bust the small man (which is why so many hookie copies of windoze exist in the world) theyre after corporate licencing errors because thats where the money is. Unless they want to make an example, at which point they'll carve you a new one. but youd have a much sterner letter in solicitor ink possibly containing packets of DEATH AND PAIN. or something like that.


In all honesty there's very little reason to get all upset about a threatening letter. as long as youve made sure theres nothing around and you dont batter your bandwidth (No more filthy voip calls to nirach for you missy!) they'll leave you alone. There's no law against halo. and if there was we'd rise up! RISE UP I SAY!

ps. Men think they know lots about anything technical. Often we don't we just fake it to look manly. its a male thing.

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