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I got one of those five or six years ago, my first year at Tulane university. Except instead of receiving a letter, they shut off my room's internet. Then they simply waited until I called to ask what was wrong with my connection to tell me about it. My roommate wasn't happy.

It happened to lots of people. This was back when Kazaa was the P2P program to use. The stupidest part, though, was that the letter specifically pointed out a halflife executable file that I happened to have in my share folder, which was nothing more than an officially downloaded update from the valve website that anyone could have gotten off the internet!

That clued me into the fact that they didn't care that I was downloading stuff (or didn't know what I was downloading), only that I was sharing stuff. So I stopped sharing stuff, but I went along and kept downloading.