I've never had trouble, but my friend has gotten busted by his shitty ISP (also my shitty ISP) three times within a few months for running torrents. That'll teach him to seed. :\ damned ISPs..
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I haven't torrented in a good while since I've been piggybacking off my friend's unlimited usenet account. I enjoy it very much.
Never been caught downloading except the one time when I was like 10 and using Kazaa and hiding my downloads in the deepest recesses of my parent's computer until my (much) older brother found the files lol. I got a tap on the fingers from my parents basically.
I don't torrent but the assumption that ALL torrents are illegal is a false one. Some torrents are perfectly legal. Some torrents are illegal. But there ARE legal uses for torrenting and there are legal torrents.
Examples of legal torrents: Developers who release patches or updates for their games through torrents, open source software such as Linux which releases through torrents, other things which are purposely released by the actual intellectual property owners through torrents, and so forth.
Examples of illegal torrents: Movies, music, software, etc which is released in torrent form for which permission was not given by the intellectual property owners and for which licensing did not explicitly allow it/etc...
It is unfair that ISPs and governments are increasingly viewing torrents or torrenting in itself as evidence of piracy, because it isn't -- it depends entirely on what was torrented and the context in which it was torrented, not the torrenting itself.
So though, for example, it is perfectly legal to torrent particular Linux distros, I prefer to get them other ways to avoid specific targeting, etc... And I shouldn't have to do this but frequently people in power are ill educated on technical matters and/or have ulterior motives for their actions and I'd rather not be flagged, throttled, scrutinized, etc... when I haven't done anything wrong. And it isn't fair that I should have to do this.
You guys know this is a fake website right? Look at the bottom
That would explain why it claims I downloaded a camcorder recording of Apollo 18. Like I would really stoop that low, or share a house with anyone who would. Telesync is the lowest quality I would consider pirating.
This site is not fake, like someone said it is supposed to scare you into actually using an iplist type of blocker with proxy to hide yourself. This goes right along with pro piracy users like piratebay and MAFIAA and things. It is trying to say you're vulnerable, now go and block IP's and proxy so you don't get caught like a fool.
All it is, like they say on their site, is a crawler just like a search engine would use. Though modified to bump the peer hive and sniff the torrent protocols. Same way the companies are sniffing people out publicly trading right now and telling your ISP to warn you.
Also, @ Organism. I'm assuming that shitty ISP is ...duh duh duh. COX, since I'm your neighbor over here in Vegas.
Example of legal torrent; all Linux distros are distributed through torrents;any open source, non copy written material. The RIAA and MPAA can go crawl in a hole and rot. I'd rather donate to TPB.
Edit: Which I forgot to mention, I believe in freedom of information and will download whatever I damn well please and they can try to stop us. Live free or die.
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