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Isps that don t care about torrenting Members Online • [deleted] ADMIN MOD Why do some ISPs care about DMCA and some Don't? Archived post. Now I don't torrent french files so maybe they're just not seeking at the right place. Reply reply torrenting on our servers. they generally don't care, at least until someone from one of the "copy-write protection" agencies contacts them for info about a specific IP address These trackers are servers track which peers have expressed interest in the same torrent, but don't explicitly know what the torrent contains. If your ISP isn't throttling BitTorrent, A few years ago my ISP called me because I was torrenting, my response: "you don't get payed for resetting my IP for no reason but providing me internet, and who do you think you are ISPs usually don't, but torrents are monitored by enforcement services, who'll contact your ISP. I don't pirate, so I don't care if Starlink can see I'm torrenting, and I'd rather not use a VPN since that undoes the whole point of torrenting IMO (I'd be bogging down the VPN's servers instead of the servers of whoever I'm downloading from). They just comply with the law doing the bare minimum. They send a warning email because a 3rd party has contacted them about a specific IP address being detected in a peer swarm for a torrent that was sharing a copyrighted work. They send your ISP a DMCA letter claiming you stole from them. To find out what you are doing takes a lot of work, aka time and money. And then that's it. They then sent your info to your isp and had them tell you to stop. That means you'll most likely not get those demand letters since your isp does not share your data with the Depends what you're pirating, how long you seed, and what your isp is. They don't want to be held responsible for pirates. Your ISP will write you a snotty letter, but that's about it. The game company would be the one to complain. answered Nov 20, 2012 at 15:47. Not all ISPs care about DMCAs from torrents. It was at the time when France had torrent files. When torrenting there aren't the HTTP headers so it's hidden I'd rather have CF holding anonymous logs for one of their millions of users than my ISP having that info Most 'Murican ISPs don't care unless a 3rd party (MAFIAA) makes them care by tattling. say I have the IP 1. Israel and Switzerland also don't care about piracy and are both first world. Takes for the Information Normal ISP's really don't care, the only time they do is when it's FTTB. I'm In the UK and have heard of people getting love letters from their ISP about torrenting too Reply reply Is My ISP Blocking Torrenting? The easiest way to tell is to try and download a torrent. You wont get Third party companies that are paid by the entertainment industry to monitor p2p activity and send these requests to your ISP and your ISP has to forward these to you. Also if is for personal use they can not do anything. ISP dont care what you are doing on Internet. If on the other hand you often download the latest hollywood blockbuster that's a different story and a lot riskier without a VPN. Find Out Which ISPs Are the Biggest BitTorrent Throttlers Read More Some Indian ISPs do block popular piracy/torrenting websites. NON-HTTPS connection) if you are connected trough a domain using HTTPS your ISP can only see that you Thanks a lot. if one of those people is a copy write holder they take that list of IP addresses and send a letter to your ISP saying "we caught this IP address committing piracy" your ISP then drafts their own letter to send to you Welcome to r/torrents where people are actually on your side. As such, it’s neutral. Public indicates that no special access like credentials to use it. However, there are some ways Use a VPN to Hide Your Identity. The difference with torrents and DDL's is that with a torrent, other peers can phone home with your I. Best. k. Old. There are public trackers and private trackers. I'll probably just do what the person above said and keep the files until I need the space. ISPs don't care but they do care about compliance so if they are requested to forward these they do and it costs them time and money so they will eventually cut you off if you In fairness to Irish ISPs they are quite neutral and want to remain that way. Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic. Switzerland Network Testing Tool. I received one email about torrenting back in 2017 directing me to something they called the "Get It Right Information Portal". It's mostly an issue if you're uploading illegal content, most ISPs don't give a shit unless they get caught up in court battles. Well, Comcast might since they own Universal, but for the most part they don’t care. But if you are in a torrent swarm, you never are just a downloader, you also offer what you already have to someone else who might need it. 2, given to you by your ISP. Will my ISP see my IP when I switch/change location VPN while But for copyrighted content, they don't care. If you need one, you need a better tracker It depends on your country. They are not the enforcer. Heavy downloads for years before streaming; I've never had a problem with an ISP. It is the content primarily and secondly, the ISP may throttle your connection if you consume Gigs of data. can easily pose as an uploader for their content and thereby know your IP which they can then maybe connect to some dataset on one of their services - thereby the get your name&adress. Follow edited Oct 13, 2020 at 11:46. The Australian government banned the use of torrenting websites, so now ISPs are bound by law to block Even if u don't use a vpn, nothing's going to happen because it's India. Regarding digital piracy, RARELY is any action taken. The ISPs don't want to narc out their own customers but don't want piracy happening either. It’s no more of a piracy tool than any other digital technology such as web browsers, mp3 players, USB thum If there’s one thing that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) hate, it’s torrenting. But, if you are from a country which does track you then you must use it. Reply tplgigo Pirate Activist • There's a torrent manager called Tribler that is essentially Tor, but for torrents. Tmobile has not throttled our connection at all, so it seems their unlimited offering is actually unlimited. That is why when you torrent, and don't live in a 3rd-world ISPs don't care what you download, so long as they don't get copyright infringement notices from copyright holders. Suddenly their traffic is exposed and everything they are Downloading torrenting or seeding becomes visible to the isp etc. Most ISPs don't care if you torrent its the amount of bandwidth you're using that is making them throttle you. We’ll discuss this Large numbers of Internet subscribers, mainly in the United States, have been taking to the Internet in recent months worried about piracy warnings sent to them by their ISPs. si is great if you are downloading torrents of reputed uploaders. Everyone thinks they’re untouchable until they’re not. Truthfully most trolls don't care when they see a server/data center IP Your VPS provider doesn't care one bit, they'll relay abuse complaints to you. Reply reply More replies. While you may find people discussing that torrenting is safe in the UK on Reddit and similar websites, we don’t recommend risking it. Share. They are the ones that monitor certain public torrent swarms, harvesting user ip addresses to then report to their respective ISPs. Dark Web shit is unrelated and unknown to me so that's out of the picture), no isp IN THE COUNTRY has ever, to my knowledge done any sort of legal move against ANYBODY for torrenting and downloads. Most of the bigger ones don't though. Only time i've ever even heard of someone being reprimanded for it (keep in mind me and my dad have been sailing the 7 seas profusely for decadeds-) only time i heard of something like that my friends dad downloaded an album, something really main-streamy like katy perry or taylor swift. ISPs don’t care. Remember always that BT or any ISP is just a middleman with the letters, they don't care but the law obliges them (or will do next year or something) to forward stuff from anti-pirates. That said, using a VPN is definitely the best practice. jacktheBOSS • They Does your ISP care if you download ROMs? They don’t care about legitimate downloads. desbest. Nintendo would easily DMCA you if you torrented Wii games when the Wii was still in stores, these days they don't care to police it because there's no money for them to make. Harddrive 2. My point is, if you don't trust your local loop (Internet service) provider, why do you apparently blindly trust all VPN (Internet service) providers? If you have a shitty local loop provider, don't supplement it with a shitty VPN provider. They just don't want you running a porn site from their dynamic IP pool and getting their customers mysteriously blocked from parts of the net. If it's unencrypted streaming only your ISP will know, so it's up to you to find out if they are the type to take it upon themselves to play internet police. They don't catch people (generally) by sniffing the traffic Not sure what you mean by sniffing. they only have to respond There are 2 software's you can run to attempt discovery of ISP bittorrent throttling. Plus vpns are dirt cheap nowadays. They will send two further letters to say the same thing if you download further films in the same year. Couldn't find any prove but after testing a lot (on different machines with different OS, both wifi and wired) I just couldn't get any decent speed. And to respect laws that are against torrenting. tl;dr, I want to 'torrent' but not 'pirate'. Not sure when exactly these kind of policies started, but it was definitely not like this 15~ years ago when I was in highschool. Porn services usually have their own IPs or are co-hosted with other porn services, to minimize the risk of collateral We don't torrent in my house, but with work from home and 4k streaming we regularly hit 2 terabytes of data per month. Also, as long as you don't torrent anything illegal, you should be fine. ISPs do not care what you are downloading, it's copyright trolls that do. As a not-regular-user-anymore of torrents, ratios don't impact me. Generally you don't need it but I would still recommend you use it. Unless your streaming site is a honeypot nobody will be able to tattle on you because they won't know. If you are getting the torrent from a public site, as opposed to an enclosed community, the traffic is way more likely to be monitored by a third party being paid to rat on people. Torrent client 3. Another advantage of DDL is that VPN’s that block torrenting don’t ISPs in EU countries don't give a fuck Well first of all Switzerland is not in the EU Secondly downloading copyrighted medias is allowed in Swiss law (though legally you can't pirate softwares) but uploading is not. How torrenting works: When you begin torrenting something, you are added to a big list of IP addresses, held by the tracker server, that also want/have the file. TLDR: Direct downloads are fine. VPNs use the following search parameters to narrow your results: subreddit:subreddit find submissions in "subreddit" author:username find submissions by "username" site:example. 49/month. It's safer to torrent though a VPN. 3) Everyone recommends PIA as a VPN and BT won't bother to block anything like that. Use a VPN. Private trackers can only be used with credentials, often obtained by registration. Reply reply [deleted] • Comment deleted by user im living in country where you can download 50games a day and isp don't care at all i actually torrented like 6times that day and isp didn't cared at all. A large company like Sony, Disney, etc. They'll drop you like a hot potato if they catch you torrenting copyrighted movies or TV a few times. So, you don't really need VPN once you have the magnet link. IANAL and the following information may only apply to people in the US. My dumbass thought everything media-related was free. Reply reply Let's say I don't use a torrenting website and instead go somewhere like watchcartoonsonline. They lookup these IP's and then send DMCA takedown notices to your ISP. So why do you think the ISP is even relevant? All the ISP will see is regular HTTP downloads from the debrid I don't know if places that sell pirated media are still popular, but nowadays films and series are most consumed directly from the original source, as subscription prices are cheaper with a large catalog of content. I don't know to what extent they Verizon themselves couldn’t care less and don’t take the time to bother trying to figure out what you’re doing. That's why porn is ironically very safe because the producers won't make the effort to do so. I've been torrenting for about 15 years or so and have yet to have any issues with any of these ISPs. Q&A [deleted] Don’t be like this guy and use a vpn use the following search parameters to narrow your results: subreddit:subreddit find submissions in "subreddit" author:username find submissions by "username" site:example. In fact, I don't think they The ISP couldn't care less. ISP do not bother much about torrenting. Peers 4. binding prevents the torrenting app from accessing the internet at all unless the vpn is first connected. However, they understand that most people interested in 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps service are probably doing it. And very rarely, but they do. Typical This could include torrents or other P2P connections though. Services like PIA are fairly inexpensive, and PIA itself only costs $3. So if you download pirated content AND your ISP gets a letter then yes, they will care, otherwise I dont think they will go and nark on you if they see you being a piratey pirate How much information can my ISP obtain about my torrenting activities with this setup? Can my ISP see that I am visiting torrent link-distribution sites (when browsing with the VPN enabled) Can my ISP detect that I am downloading and/or seeding torrents? They don't care if you don't cause trouble. But presumably all Pro tip - the isp doesn’t actually give a shit. providing you don't use a proxy/VPN. to cancel the services of their own customer that's been using their VPN to torrent (or to ignore which is most likely what happens). com" Torrenting's legal status can be complex. Legal avenues exist for sharing What ISP cares about a torrents? Last I checked that's not illegal. I don't torrent. Been running on afrihost ever since. Used to be more of a don't ask don't tell kinda thing. The ISP's generally don't. Torrents are also rife with Oftentimes, infringement notices come from being caught actually torrenting the file, not browsing for the . if you are in the pool for torrenting at the time when they decide to pursue a subpoena on a specific torrent. The judiciary banned porn in a way that banned websites could be opened by just using a free vpn. 1. They also share IPs around, they're not static, so it basically goes into the too hard basket for them if they ever do get requests. They only asked your ISP to send you an email but your ISP can't legally disclose this information without a court order (which won't happen). the worst you will suffer is a nasty letter from your ISP. if you use a good client and blocklists, the torrent trolls don't see you because your client doesn't let you share info with known torrent trolls. So why chase away a happy paying client. You can't fight you ISP. If no one was monitoring those swarms to report your ip address while you Torrents speeds or p2p in general rely on a couple of things. Use vpn when torrenting. My isp couldnt Except me. I use 1337x and 50% of the time, the site won't even load and I'll have to hit refresh until it eventually does. Yes, they shut down our internet, but only temporarily. It's akin to buying insurance, most of the time/country don't require you to have a vpn to torrent but the one time that they suddenly do care due to a particular popular torrent, you'll be glad you had the vpn. That answers the OP's However, those who disregard warning notices or fail to check the email address registered with their ISP (so they don’t know they’ve been receiving warnings), things can get complicated This is why I love living in a semi-developed country where internet is fast and ISPs don't give a shit of what you do with your internet. I don't know if ratios above 150% help but might as well do it if the space is there. . Any site anywhere can see your IP if you don't use a VPN. Also last I checked, you're only getting a letter if you are in a swarm that's reported to them via a DMCA request. Don't worry about it, but personally when I was into torrent I never torrented from home. Top. What they do need a subpoena for is the IP It does happen but it's quite rare. Reply reply [deleted] • ISPs don't care about traffic patterns. However, 50TB a month may get investigated by the ISP, since the ISP doesn't want their network to be saturated (and possibly degraded for other users in the same area, since ISPs oversubscribe, meaning they sell 10gbps upstream bandwidth to 100 customers, and Most ISPs don't care what you do with your internet (you could DL 10TB a month if you wanted) but if you really care, avoid any tiny ISP and use google DNS (keep in mind not using ISP Depends on what you torrent. Depending on the laws in your region, and the policies of your ISP, they may cooperate further with the claimant to provide your info to them, they may not. Posted by u/Gagnef03 - 3 votes and 6 comments Torrenting is not illegal in Australia, but it can be if you use it for sharing or downloading copyrighted content. 1. Oh ai, so they don’t care about anime. You got caught because someone Capcom hired to monitor piracy of its games managed to find you among the swarm of other seeders and leechers. In israel there's laws but have never been enforced and in Switzerland IIRC it's legal to pirate for personal use. ISP are doing the bare minimum when they are enforced to do antipiracy moves by court orders. The Canadian Federal Court ruled on the first copyright based web-blocking order for internet service providers (ISPs) in 2019, many civil lawsuits have been filed against Fucking Suddenlink is now cutting off network if they find out you are file sharing. I would feel awful if it got shut down because of me. I don't think they will do something about games and movies but just to be safe use VPN while torrenting. ISPs here don't care. You can even torrent without a Literally one after the other, and they were faster than Amazon Prime. Switched to using VPN for torrents since then. However, this method does pose some legal If your ISP isn't throttling BitTorrent, then you don't have much to worry about, though they still could see anything they wanted. ISPs don't care that you torrent except in the sense that it means you're likely to actually get your money's worth out of the bandwidth you pay for. Never got anything from multiple ISPs after torrenting without a VPN. From what I've heard Spain also doesn't care and it's also first world. Is that all I have to do here? Or is it likely that Suddenlink would still catch me? ISPs don't care. Don't trust all these people saying "your ISP don't care". There are subs for VPN discussion and for torrenting, this is about the combination. Don't Panic! Members Online • [deleted] ISPs can detect torrenting behavior by looking at your bandwidth usage: if you're always using a few MBs, instead of using large bursts of data, you're probably torrenting or streaming video. Reply reply GlaxyRider121 Which country ISP's do not care about copyright infringements while torrenting? Archived post. I don't want to put our internet at risk, that's how he works. Q&A. Reply reply [deleted] • Comment removed by Don't just think about the torrent traffic. They aren't media owned either. ISP don't care what you are doing on Internet, unless you are living in a dictatorship. So yes, get a VPN. If you don’t want them to see anything you do or sites you visit, then you should use a good VPN service. Yeah no as a fellow Indian who has been pirating movies and games since I was like 11 I can say with 100% confidence that the ISP's don't give two fucks if you pirate stuff, even the big players like ACT Fibernet and Airtel don't give two fucks if you pirate stuff I have pirated stuff on both ACT and Airtel for years without any problem and even some people I know that pirate and use Jio If I don’t use a VPN and I, hypothetically, torrent some copyrighted material I get the impression that my ISP can tell that I am doing that and ask me to stop (though this has never happened to me). First, BitTorrent is a filesharing protocol. most ISPs you can sign into your account and track your monthly usage and whatnot. We're such a relatively small market, "rightsholders" don't think it's worth paying a law firm hundreds/thousands of dollars an hour to hunt us down. " But then again, ISP means Internet Service Provider, which your VPN provider also is. Edit: I'm going to give some more information to this situation. Some websites like pirate bay have a warning about how I should use a VPN if torrenting in Ireland but either it's just big names like that that get you caught out OR they're just trying to advertise their VPN's. Here ISPs just don't care about torrenting and you can realize that they also not throttle them. Share Sort by: Best. That wasn't a "comparison", but illustrating the pointlessness of your anecdotal "I've been fine so far!! " information. They do not give your information out. Go with whoever. Mine will just let you get a new account when your old account was banned. It was 10x times slower then my plan is. So that would mean that tou could recive an email from your ISP on behalf of a local/regional licensor, in the case of USA those would be Aniplex, Funimation, Crunchyroll, Sentai maybe Netflix. I don't torrent myself, but I know people who do and they give me hard drives loaded with the stuff. I use Mullvad VPN, and qbittorrent, as it's easy to bind qbittorrent to the VPN so it normally can't move any data outside the VPN. so I don't care. What to do to prevent this: cuz there's a lot more This is especially helpful when downloading large files, or if you don’t have the most stable internet connection to begin with. If you’re using Debrid service to download your torrents, your IP won’t be in the swarm. If you are from the country which doesn't care about torrenting ( like my country ), then you don't need VPN at all. the ISP can see everything you are doing, including who/what you are connecting to, how fast you are transferring info, how much data, what it is, etc. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may send DMCA notices to subscribers caught sharing protected materials, potentially leading to account restrictions or legal action. But I'd still recommend having a vpn or something (I don't use one tho lol) Reply reply Kazer67 • It's not "had", it isn't the past, France still has a shitload of torrent files and release usually happen in a matter of hours as the torrent community is really All you need to do is circular file the notice and stop torrenting in the clear. They don't care, but they're legally binded to Because I have been pirating since a long time ago and my country doesn't care about pirates. I am the one law-abiding citizen against which all other people are measured. Most torrent clients have some form of encryption, which makes it harder for ISPs (and your home router) to pin down that BitTorrent traffic. None of them have gotten into trouble, seems alright. When your torrent client connects, it broadcasts it's IP address so other clients can connect. Most people don’t think twice about whether or not their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is spying at what they look at online. Most torrenting sites don’t have clear indicators of a file's copyright status or ownership, so navigating them without accidentally downloading copyrighted content can be challenging. They just want to sell internet access and don't want/care to police the traffic. You can torrent but don't use public trackers. Never use a VPN either. Open comment sort options. 2. People often share files through a process called torrenting, or P2P file-sharing. You should explore r/VPNTorrents because they have a specific criteria on what's a good VPN (port forwarding or not is the dealbreaker nowadays). Don't know which one is the best because I prefer direct download, but all I know is that free ones typically aren't the best choice. ISPs have a reason to throttle certain types of traffic because of network usage. Reply reply Tbh there's no need for it in India, the ISPs and the law enforcement genuinely don't care about piracy. Reply reply That is the key that the ISP don't care. If it's truly legit legal torrents they won't They only care if the owner of the intellectual property (or one of their copyright trolls) reports you as they’ve seen your IP in the swarm. Though they surely don't like users pushing terabytes either way Never used a vpn till now, have been downloading games, series, movies, software & what not. If for example you only torrent black and white movies from the 50's or indie games yeah no one is going to care and you don't absolutely need a VPN. Whether you’re downloading the latest episode of The Walking Dead or obtaining a copy of Office 365, the reality is your ISP has no interest in what you’re torrenting. clubs are clubs for a reason, you can still get in trouble torrenting in them however because its a club that requires an invitation and has a proverbial lock on the front door it is akin to a private business or house Only if you continually get them, your ISP will probably terminate your service. If there are enough seeders and you don’t get any speeds or get very low speeds, there’s a good chance your ISP is blocking torrenting Don't reply to the email and move on, nothing will happen in this case and they don't know your identity. They don’t care about legitimate downloads. Thanks again :) Don't be stupid. The larger ISPs are not much, if any, cheaper than the smaller ISPs that don't even have a strikes system, and it only applies if OP's ISP is one of the If your ISP is actively trying to detect torrent use, they will most likely be able to tell. As soon as your IP connects they send an email to your ISP telling them your attempting to torrent send movie Reply reply Top The reality is they don’t care about the small fry, same goes with torrenting. A similar context is porn. Also, it's mainly newer content that's at risk for profit loss, not just certain media formats. High court orders in recent years mean they have to block the likes of piratebay despite how easy it is workaround it. Public torrents don't even need a tracker and can get the peer list using the DHT and PEX. They don't allow you to change DNS servers, which is annoying. They don't care but they legally have to send you the letter. If people are put behind bars for using torrent, indian judiciary will run out of jails (which are already brimming with undertrials). All I have to do to download a video is Right click--> Save video as--> Save. Side Note- when I was 9 I found I had to pay for video games and pirated is illegal. Think about the DNS lookups to find the sites that host the torrent files. I'm with Xfinity and I've only got two nasty grams in about 8 years and then I've called Xfinity on them and the guy flat out told me we don't honestly care we're just following the contractual agreement with a copyright holder that we have to by letting you know that you were seen downloading it. (DMCA) to be sent to you when an ISP gets a a notice from a copyright holder that someone has been downloading copyrighted material. Most VPNs don’t keep logs of your online ventures, which is a very desirable trait in this particular country if what you want is to share torrent files and download videos and music. That s why pirate If all that was at risk was a slap on the wrist from you ISP then no one would care about VPNs when torrenting. I'm sure copyright holders would love a look at the list of customers on the ISP's network that search for and/or visit torrenting sites. Torrenting is illegal so use a relible vpn service or an ISP like Bahnhof who will not share your ip-logs with anyone but the authorities. Even then it's not an issue with some ISP. Someone(*aa) joins the pool, gets your IP from the list of peers, and sends a mass subpoena to the ISP that issued that IP. g. The thing with torrenting is that you don't really need the data from the ISP to 'get caught'. 1,018 7 7 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Reply reply [deleted] In my experience, ISPs don't throttle your torrent downloads. Edit: Also, nyaa . Your ISP doesn't care that you pirate. However, this is rare, and unless you are downloading large amounts of copyright data frequently, it is very The only worry you'd have is the ISP disconnecting you which happened to me back in the day, but after I called them and played dumb they turned it back on. I also understand that if I am using a VPN that traffic will appear to my ISP as encrypted traffic to/from the VPN provider. Moab Moab. Not even ISPs care Reply reply (or do they just notice you torrent? I don't know) they send a letter/email to you to say what you've downloaded and that you shouldn't do it. You will see after torrenting movies, music and many other items random emails coming down from your ISP letting you know how you have been identified by a copyright holder and their lawyers will be contacting you, subpoena you to a court and fine you monetary damages in access of thousands of dollars will be applicable. Tryoing to figure out if my ISP is throttling bandwidth on my torrents. Your ISP is obligated to forward this to you. If they want to throttle you thats what theyre gonna do. I honestly don't think they care much. Remember, we don’t condone digital piracy, and our tips shouldn’t be taken as legal advice. Especially if you run on capped account like I do. In some ISPs the torrent websites also open without any VPN. It's odd that they didn't specify a file name, they normally do that. torrent files themselves. Why? Most likely to protect themselves against DMCA notices and threatening letters from lawyers. Let’s start by clarifying our concepts. imsoswolo • Yea I been pirating since high school and the only time I got a letter from an ISP was for watching a movie on a streaming site. There are watchdog organizations that monitor torrent swarms, harvesting IP addresses. They just join the torrent (start downloading) and log every IP they see. Use a VPN and don't torrent new releases. 1, given to me by my ISP. and lets be honest, content filesharers use waaay more resources than a standard user. Reply reply Tw1stedDimensions • Doubt it, I've had hundreds or thousands of these in the past 10 years. While a DDL contact is recorded, there is no one drawing attention to it like with a torrent. No, your ISP doesn't care about torrents. It would be more of an issue in countries that have Basically saying there's no enforcement. So no need to worry. While your ISP can sometimes tell if you're torrenting, the provider won't automatically know. Some isp's literally just ignore the complaints. they don't need a subpoena to join the swarm and see every peer IP address. a. They care that big movie and tv companies care. But I have stumbled on various torrents with lots of art material, and I was wondering if my internet provider will send me a letter if I start torrenting these files en masse, or if they only care about people pirating copyrighted entertainment from high-end companies. But maybe it’s you step back and ask yourself if your really trust your ISP? Most of us figure that our ISPs A far more common consequence of torrenting is that you’ll annoy your Internet Service Provider (ISP for short). A common response is that ISPs offer higher Use a VPN and make sure to bind it to your torrent client, and you shouldn't be worried about your ISP informing you, as those are just scare tactics, it is extremely rare that they will take action. But I've been transferring files to/from since 1986 with a dialup 300 baud modem. While that may be true you would be wise to keep using the vpn and make sure Tracing all that through a torrent is not an ISPs job. Reply reply FierceDragon145 • Yes they can. Another way they can do it is by contracting third-parties to monitor groups of torrents, and My ISP doesn't care what people download. Do enough of anything illegal and it’ll catch up to you. P. Reply reply More replies More 🌊 Dedicated to in-depth discussion of digital torrenting, moral dilemmas, and technological news. Pirating is illegal the best is to get a tor and a vpn running them in tandem (run tor-through-VPN is the all around best choice). I stream more often now. From what I understand, the people that want to stop pirating sometimes join these torrents (simply put), then report your IP to your provider. ISPs tend to only send you a warning if they get an email from someone. One of the most common and safe methods to download To see if your ISP is looking for BitTorrent traffic, check out this list of the worst offenders, or try the previously mentioned Glasnost tool. No, I don't sign autographs. We had to call them to get the quarantine lifted. Hope this helps. On top of that, an ISP could be receiving kickbacks from content owners and their associates. For example, when a copyright lobby requests a pirate site to be blocked, ISP use the cheapest way to do it : DNS blocking. It’s the movie, TV, and software companies that put pressure on them to help stop piracy. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 1- ISPs don't give a flying fuck about what you do. Those emails arrive when a third party copyright troll monitoring a torrent sees your IP and sends the ISP it's registered to a notice, which they're required to forward. That said, the Gaming company may sue you or your friend for the illegal P2P transfer, if they somehow get to know about the transfer. So I am trying to find out how to hide it from my ISP. ISPs don't care about VPNs, a huge number of people use them. We don't follow-up; we inform and it's up to our customers to do what they will with the info, e. also the best/safest way to torrent is to gain access to a torrent club. In the US, that TikTok ban, that one that had sweeping regulations regarding VPNs and visiting banned sites using them, yeah that’s possible because they literally know everything we do Your ISP will usually forward those to you requesting you look into it. Reply reply Of course I use a VPN for torrenting, but I don't run it full time. One arrangement I commonly see is Been pirating with impunity ever since, across multiple ISPs and using various methods, without any hint that any consequences might be coming my way. If you don't want your ISP to have a record of your DDL's, use something along the lines of TOR. Reply reply Dozens of ISPs are causing problems for torrent users. Torrenting is perfectly legal so internet service providers don't care. ISPs don’t necessarily care that you’re committing copyright However, within the past year I started using torrents, and I already got a letter from my ISP. If you're getting data from one source, you're streaming, but if you're always requesting data from new sources, you're torrenting. ISPs don't care what you are moving around via filesharing as long as it isn't portrayed as an enabler in a court. I think they make more money on capped accounts any way. Reply reply Alan_Smithee_ • ISPs secretly love porn. In years of torrenting here in Brazil, almost nothing was done. I've been living in Italy for over a decade now, there is an anti piracy law here, but the government or your isp don't give a shit about it. It is in your ISP's best interest to not know what you are doing. tl;dr: ISPS DON"T CARE WHAT YOU TORRENT THEY DON"T OWN THE COPYRIGHTS Edit: Everyone working for a corporation at home is using a VPN, sending lots of data back and forth. That would be an alternative to firewalling games individually. The only reason I was ever comfortable torrenting without a VPN in the first place was cause I knew they would send a notice rather than immediately turn off our internet. com find submissions from "example. If I'm with Sky, great speeds, reliable. PS: ISPs here don't care about torrents from what I know, already have a VPN though so I'll make sure to have it on when downloading/seeding. Understand how it affects you and explore the legal ways to use this technology for safe content sharing. They simply don't care, every single game/movie/book i have ever downloaded has being (at first) obtained from multiple Torrent and DD sites, from The avarage ISPs doesn't seen to care about pirating, they send emails when the owner of an intellectual property tell them to. However, with a few precautions, you Why does your ISP even care? Because torrenting takes up a lot of bandwidth, and that bandwidth costs ISPs money. If you have other ISPs in your area look into how they are with high bandwidth customers, some just dont care how much bandwidth you use, others cap you as soon as you hit a certain point Otherwise maybe swim restarts their computer and connects to internet but forgets to start vpn and opens torrent app. While it is uncommon in Australia, I do remember reading about a couple people getting emails from their ISP, however I don't know if it actual resulted in anything. However it is illegal for your ISP to disclose informations about what you do to anyone so even if they want to act they can't you dont need a vm for Persecution only happens when the film copyright holders take action. com" An ISP (internet Service Provider) is the company you buy your internet from. You can also do private trackers, but good luck with that is all I can say. New. I never use a VPN. Can your ISP sue you for torrenting? Technically, it is possible for ISPs to take legal action against excessive torrenters. What they do care about are DMCA notices. torrent file, you're good to go without a VPN Reply reply the advantage of us 3rd world dwellers is our government is busy looting our people or scaming other countries XD they don't care for us pirates. In fact, if you choose one of the local ISPs of your area as opposed to the bigger names, they might even allow you higher speeds for torrenting. So if you are properly behind a VPN, the groups monitoring torrent swarms never see your real UP. Some ISPs block access to torrenting websites, making it as far as i've experienced, it depends on the ISP and the content being pirated. anyone who connects to a torrent to download can see the IP addresses of everyone else connected. So as long as that's all good you're good to go. On another post I saw a rumor that there may be a 999TB cap, but that seems more than enough for any home use case I can think of. Assuming I don't use a magnet link and download a tor file first and the use some client to download the actual file, which part of that triggers some kind of ISP response? Do ISPs have some kind of trigger where if they see a tor file downloaded they will notice it or can they actually see traffic through something like qbittorrent and that's what they see? This way, they’d have access to the IP address of all the people torrenting the file. Been downloading torrents since I got my crappy 1mbps adsl line in 2012(upgraded to 4 later on). Comcast usually has a 250GB limit iirc, and they do some traffic modifying if you use a lot of BW and it matters, but if you live in a light traffic area you may never see it. We just want to help you stay safe and anonymous online while avoiding troubles with your ISP (Internet Service Provider). If you don't care about the speed of your downloads, it works very well in place of a VPN. Also, torrent without fear, we have 0 regard for big companies trying to charge for free content. Or just don't give a shit and keep torrenting, like a true madlad. Egyptian here, and I remember some 10 years ago I was torrenting and found one of the seeds with Egyptian flag with a familiar IP. you have the IP 2. This method is much different than torrenting and seems a lot more straight forward. Their usual practice is to ask you to investigate and stop it, a bureaucratic way to save their ass. I've torrented for 12 years on top private sites and no ISP has ever cared. Controversial. something By using your own VPS you make it your front for abuse emails, not the ISP. However, I urge you whether you are torrenting illegally or not, to get a VPN From what I've heard Germany is pretty strict, some people that lived there told me that they got a warning from their isp or some shit for just watching on streaming sites. Like here is Argentina. If you don’t Don't pirate on a free VPN service, or rather they already don't allow it. Making you also a (potential) uploader. When I lived on campus they blocked torrenting altogether, but this was easily fixed through uTorrent's built in encryption. Australian ISP's don't care. when filesharing first started, companies would go after individuals downloading for personal use, but the costs were higher than the returns and public opinion threatened a backlash when grandmas started In the last 20 years, I've never had an ISP mail me about piracy. It's not your ISP, it's the school's, and they'd probably have no problem knocking you off it. lol u think cloudflare din't account for this kinda usage, they want people to use it anyway possible, they don't care, they got the resources to handle this shit. As long as you're able to obtain the magnet link or the . They will then be liable for your actions if they know you are doing something illegal. you join a torrent swarm on a tracker uploading Movie123. More reading. It’s a quick and convenient way to share content. After a tracert it was one of the hops in the caching servers of the biggest ISP here (called TEData - now just Depends on the school, but that's probably a bad idea. Steam (and GOG) is generally the your ISP isnt the one catching you, its someone else on the swarm. This is called the swarm and the other IPs are peers. 2- Pirating is mainstream (aka most of the population doesn't pay for shit) 3- I have a fuckton of peers from my country while torrenting. A VPN would mask your IP and encrypt the data your ISP sees, preventing these warnings. Plus, our last ISP never once sent us a notice. you are now connecting to everyone in the swarm so that you can upload the parts of Movie123 you have, and so that A) The "six strikes" policy that was implemented for multiple ISPs stopped existing in like 2017 and ISPs don't bother with it anymore since it never worked, so it doesn't matter how many strikes you get or if you get caught because most ISPs don't care. The media industry doesn't want to be suing millions of Americans but does want piracy to stop. Then understand how and what torrents are monitored and can get you in trouble. Improve this answer. Torrents are not specifically for piracy, its just a data sharing protocol. Proton VPN is awesome as a FREE VPN, but they block P2P so don't try it. ISP with decent international transit which from what I have seen in SA most ISPs have The ISP then looks up who was using that IP at the time of the offense and send along an email warning. Your ISP "can see" what you are doing, but they don't care about it, remember is not your ISP the problem is the copyright holders that are the problem, and your ISP can only "see" what you are doing if you use a unencrypted connection (a. zeyvg ielne ufdhauf vvci qpmbirk nxefxac oeyujd pqlphtm vvndk jwml