Lots and lots to mull on here. Lifehacker got a note from a reader who said she’d been torrenting movies. She wrote:

Yesterday I received a letter in the mail from Cablevision (my ISP) saying that Paramount/Dreamworks had filed a complaint with them regarding my illegal download of one of their films.

The letter states that I am not being sued and my service is not being disconnected at this point but that Paramount/Dreamworks has the right to pursue legal action against me and Cablevision was warning me of that.

The site asks for similar stories and advice for the poor thing, and gets a flood. It’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake, but there’s a lot of seemingly sincere testimony that points out the grey areas going on ouside the press, and the courtrooms, as this orthographically creative comment suggests:

Happened to me a WHILE back with Cox. They tol me to delete the data and to not continue downloading copywriten materials. Then they told me to call them when I had done so. No biggy. They aren;t as bad as the RIA.