Please Help

ive PURCHASED a bootlegged copy of Captain America The a Winter Soldier. Watched it one time on my 360. I DID NOT DOWNLOAD the copy I watched. A friend did.

Well a month after I've watched it I got a letter from Suddenlink threatening me with legal action for attempting to download the movie.

Can my ISP tell that I was watching a bootlegged that wasn't even downloaded from my IP or has someone else tried using my wifi to download the movie?

Please help because I'm catching way too much flak for something I know I did not do.

Nope.  Bend over and get ready to get screwed by your ISP as well as the authorities.

It is your connection and you're the person they would contact with this legal notice, most likely from Disney going to Suddenlink.  Suddenlink won't care about your friend doing it, it's your connection and you're responsible for what happens with it.   They'll go after you since your connection was the Internet connection in question because the file was downloaded to the public IP you have with Suddenlink.  They know who had that IP when the file was downloaded, so they would serve you up to the authorities.

Enjoy getting fined or worse.

Juice el Savior said:

ive PURCHASED a bootlegged copy of Captain America The a Winter Soldier. Watched it one time on my 360. I DID NOT DOWNLOAD the copy I watched. A friend did.

Well a month after I've watched it I got a letter from Suddenlink threatening me with legal action for attempting to download the movie.

Can my ISP tell that I was watching a bootlegged that wasn't even downloaded from my IP or has someone else tried using my wifi to download the movie?

Please help because I'm catching way too much flak for something I know I did not do.

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Did your friend download the movie, while on your connection?

No I bought it from a trucker that comes into town once a week. My ole lady works at a gambling hole he frequents.

Why was the second response so scary lol

All they did was make me sign an affidavit saying it won't happen again and Suddenlink apparent has a six strike rule thank god.

I honestly think it was a family member visiting on the weekend.

Glad it worked out for you!

It did in a way, but I'm now having to change my wifi and I know I'm gonna rustle a few feathers when they all come back over again.

We do the whole Sunday Funday thing here and my brother in law is always asking for good download sites but I never know what to tell him. I havnt bootlegged a movie since the days of BearShare and LimeWire lol

Let me get this straight. You bought a bootlegged DVD and it somehow connected to the internet while you were playing it on your 360? Something smells fishy, unless that trucker or Microsoft's Xbox division is more clever than we thought.

Although you did say your FRIEND DOWNLOADED a movie on YOUR internet.

No I didn't say that I said I suspect that. It's just a coincidence that I had a bootlegged copy of the film and someone tried to download it. It's literally been a month since ive watched it and file sharing isn't turned on either if that even matters because it was a DVD VIDEO DISC not a DVD DATA DISC.

I was asking if Microsoft or my ISP could do something like tell that I was watching a bootlegged movie that I never once downloaded from my IP address which the answer is No in pretty sure.

I would have just ignored them. They just want attention. It'll be a cold day in hell when they spend a massive amount of money trying to sue you for a few cents.

It's starting to sound like a scam to me. I don't even think it's possible for something to happen with a bootleg copy of a DVD disc. I've never heard it before though. If it was a digital file on your HD or something then maybe. Seems fishy to me.