I received a communication that says my Internet account was identified as having been used to illegally copy and/or distribute copyrighted material over the Internet. What does this mean?
Movies and TV shows are protected by copyright. The unauthorized downloading or uploading of movies and TV shows is actionable as copyright infringement, even if not done for profit. Illegal copying and distribution of copyrighted movies and TV shows is often accomplished using “peer-to-peer” (P2P) software installed on individual computers, which allows your computer to exchange files with other computers that are running similar software. P2P services usually configure their software so that any files you download (and any other files in your “shared folder”) are automatically made accessible to anyone else on the P2P network that requests them. When you use such services to download and upload files, you are not anonymous. Whenever you connect to the Internet, your computer is assigned a unique “Internet protocol (IP) address” from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). This unique IP address is used to identify your computer as the source of available files to all other computers on
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