ULPT Got this email from Bell.

Posted by Excellent-Notice9046@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Got this email from bell. But I haven't downloaded anything in 6 month. How serious is this?

The email i got:

Under Canadian Federal law, owners of copyright in online content may send notices to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), like Bell, if they believe one of the ISPs' customers has infringed their copyright (such as by illegally downloading music, movies, TV shows, videos or games). ISPs are legally required to forward such notices to the customer account which used the IP address at the time and date identified in the notice. Accordingly, Bell is forwarding the notice below to your attention.

Bell is not required to provide, and has not provided, any of your personal information to the sender of the notice. Bell's only obligation when it receives a notice is to forward the notice to its customer. Bell only discloses customer information when it is legally compelled to do so, such as in response to an order or a warrant.

Please contact the sender of the notice, at the contact information in the notice, if you have questions about it. Please do not contact Bell as we do not have any further information about this notice. If you decide to contact the sender, please be aware that you will no longer be anonymous to them.

The fact that you are receiving this notice does not necessarily mean the copyright owner has commenced a legal proceeding against you. Please seek legal advice if you have any legal questions about this notice, including whether any demands for payment it may contain are enforceable. Bell cannot provide you with legal advice. If you believe someone else has used your Bell internet account to infringe copyrighted content online, the simplest way to prevent this in the future is by using a secure account and Wi-Fi password.

For more information on why you received this notice and what steps are available to you, please visit Bell's FAQ page.

Please do not respond to this email address as it is not monitored and you will not receive a reply.

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Annual_Government_80@reddit

Ignore it it could be a scam. There are plenty of people on line impersonating legitimate companies and they are really good at faking everything.

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SneeKeeFahk@reddit

It's not a scam, it's legit. The ISP is just letting them they got a copyright claim for something OP downloaded. Canadas privacy laws don't let ISP given out subscriber information so the person complaining can't get OPs name or anything. The ISP does need to send this notice to the customer but that's all they're required to do.

Years ago Shaw tried to suspend my account because I got a bunch for downloading a series. I told them if they didn't turn on the Internet I was going to cancel my service and call another ISP. They turned it back on.

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Annual_Government_80@reddit

Thank you for the information

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SneeKeeFahk@reddit

No problem. It's a weird, great, thing for Canadians. The US movie and game studios hate us for it. They have our IPs and they'd love to sue a couple of us to scare the rest but they can't get our info from our ISP.

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Annual_Government_80@reddit

I live in the US. There are always new scams here. One scammer cloned my banks phone number, another is saying my iCloud account is overdue, another I have road toll charges delinquent. Where I live there are no road tolls lol

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SneeKeeFahk@reddit

Yea we got those too, they are getting pretty clever.

Someone from my power company called me the other day. They needed me to verify some information before continuing. I said no, I'm not disclosing any personal information over an unsolicited phone call. After a bit of back and forth I told them I'd call the number on my last bill and we could chat then. I never called back because who wants to talk to the power company. I still have power so it couldn't have been important.

Life_Acrobat_2408@reddit

Ignore. I've gotten hundreds of these for using torrent sites. (Canadian)

Excellent-Notice9046@reddit (OP)

I have gotten a handful of emails like this from Bell when I torrent games. But usually, within a day or two of downloading the game.

This one was unusual because I hadn't torrent anything in months, and the email was way longer than the rest. There was more written to the email.

notproudortired@reddit

Were the specified materials something you'd ever downloaded?

Upbeat_Pangolin_5929@reddit

I love that you have reached hundreds 🏆

Last_Sherbert_9848@reddit

Its not serious, They are obligated to inform you that the copyright holder complained. They are not obligated (and wont) cut you off, give your info to the copyright holder etc. I get more than one notice a month for the last 10 years

Skeggy-@reddit

Use a VPN if you want to quit getting copywrite notices. I’ve been kicked from a couple isps on the US forever ago.

I get these all the time. Ignore it.

Canadas privacy laws prevent your ISP from releasing your information so when they get a copyright claim they say "ok well tell them not to do it again but we aren't telling you who it is" and they send you this. I've been getting them for the better part of 20 years and not a single fuck was given.