Well the original email came from some agent company working for NBC and was sent to my ISP, telling them to do something about the copyright infringement that was going on from one of the IP addresses they're providing. My ISP simply forwarded it on to me, telling me to stop it or they'd cancel my service.
So it wasn't my ISP monitoring my activity, it was some company "acting on behalf of NBC" tracking the torrent I used, and tracing my IP address back to my ISP. I was using a piratebay torrent, and not any sort of IP blocker as I didn't feel it was necessary.
My ISP is my local phone company. I live in a rural area, and I only have 2 options... local phone company or local cable company. I was using the local cable company since I had my own cable modem already, but the latency sucked. I could get really good peak DL rates, but when I played online games the latency/pings I'd get were really, really high during peak hours and made it virtually unplayable. So about 6 months ago I switched to DSL from the local phone company. My peak DL speeds are significantly lower, but the latency experienced while gaming has improved drastically.
We don't have digital cable, so no DVR for me, we do, however, have a VCR still and we usually do tape our shows, we just happened to miss that episode of the Office last week. I'll just have to do a better job of remembering that now, because I won't be DL'ing full episodes anymore for a while. I'll have to watch them streaming if I forget the tape again...
"I think the bigger problem here is that your wife would be upset over it being porn"
She doesn't enjoy watching porn, so had it been, she would have known it was for my own personal entertainment. She takes pride in her ability (rightfully so
) to keep me satisfied and would consider me needing to download porn off the internet an insult.
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