All those big websites are at great risk of getting exposed and hacked by Charly Attorneys and steal user account and IP address information. If you are a regular guy downloading your bins from home without using any kind of anonymizers you are a great risk of getting caught downloading illegal bins.
THis is why it is not advisable to get bins from big websites. Try to look for small fta forum websites that are often ignored by Charlies attorneys.
Be smart and don't download illegal bins from these large websites. How do you know you are in a big website? simple if the site has more than 20,000 members you are at great risk...
although they have gone after people who sent boxes back to be repaired and then when they were found to be altered they went after em and caused much grief and financial hardship..they also have some manufactures in their deep pockets so nothing is beyond them if they want to stir the pot
Instead of even spending any time pursuing and prosecuting anyone on forums or web sites, how about if they spent their money to make their system less prone to piracy.... Like sueing Nagravision for a job badly done...
You can download anything you want .. Firstly they have to prove you use that infomation b4 they can do anything to you. As for being hacked by Charly , they don't.. i doubt they will go to you house and bust you unless you did something very stupid like tell them what you've done. The only way to get busted is if a police officer comes to your home for what ever reason and sees your FTA reciever/equipment and has proof that you use the bins to STEAL from charly/DN or BEV. People that get cought are careless. Anything on the internet is free .. Its how you use it/ conseal it that is the tricky part.
BTW if you ARE "hacked by Charly Attorneys" and steal user account and IP address information...THAT IS CALLED INTRAPMENT and they can not use any information they may have gained from your system in a court of law.
Well, you guys don't convince me. I prefer to download files from small sites instead of those largely exposed websites. As a matter of fact, the best place to download files from is from public file host servers like rapidshare or filehost.
I am just paranoic, but if nobody knows I'm downloading these files from internet it's better for me. It's like those guys who use dtv antennas and somehow splice the lnbs to catch 110,119. Anybody who sees that antenna is going to immediately suspect that somebody is stealing signal there. As opposed to use a Dish 500 Antenna with Dish Pro LNB... That installation looks more like an original.