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I used to download tons of movies and music, and the stuff that I really liked and listened to and/or watched several times, I would usually buy. I mainly used IRC for everything, and then when I missed a TV show that I liked to watch (due to work or something) I would grab it from bittorrent. I'd also get the occasional song from Limewire. But then a few weeks ago I got a letter from my ISP (Adelphia) that said something along the lines of... They had gotten a letter from Columbia Pictures about copyright infringement from my IP. For some reason I had decided to get the movie Spanglish off of Bittorrent, because I hadn't had a chance to see it in the movies, and it was in the news a lot recently, but of course, it would be several months before I could rent it. So I got it one night, watched it, and forgot about it. Maybe a week later I got the letter from Adelphia. Let's just say since then, I haven't downloaded much of anything, simply because that letter scared me straight. I'm a senior in high school and I'd like to go on to college, and if I were to get involved in any legal battle I'd be in a pretty tight situation. Of course, I was of the mindset "I don't download that much, nothing will ever happen to me" but I was stupid and used bittorrent for a rather popular item, and my IP traced it. This was a few weeks ago, and I haven't heard anything else from them. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but I won't be file sharing for a long time now.
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