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Did anyone actually get arrested for torrenting?
| I guess it is really depends on a country
| I don't think anyone got arrested except they distributed massive amounts of torrents. Depending on the country you live in it's more likely to just get a nasty fine and/or cease and desist letter. (I heard that C&D letters are quite common in the US and that you can just ignore them. Don't quote me on that)
| Some says you can get warned by your ISP if you go for some new movies/ mainstream tv series.
If you are going for anime, I don't think anybody will care.
| I remember a decade ago in the paper some lady got done in for 135k but it's probably a bag of wank.
At this point it's so common that you have to be a cunt track down someone and put them in court.
| Just torrent using linux, nigga, it will repels the cops
| Not arested, but your economic existence can be destroyed. A friend of mine drowns in debt for getting caught torrenting. It's a good business for lawyers.
| >>363512 something to note those are anime, and as such might have a slightly harder time fighting in a court across the globe, so you'd have to be sued by a American distributer (assuming you're in America) distributes as far as I know don't seem to care that much
| >>363585 in America there are firms company's hire that will log ips of a bunch of torrents and though the isps send a c&d that will have something like "pay us $100 and we agree not to take you to court" they may or may not be able to win the court case anyway but they make enough money from that to stay around
| We've also had a few people upload stuff on tpb themselves then log and sue each person over it, later they got busted and disbarred, I think some jail time even
| In Canada land I've seen C & D but that's it.
| >>364162
Germany. The Providers have to reveal their customers data if someone is suspected for uploading copyright protected media and software. As I said it's a real big business for lawyers.
| I heard from my sister's boyfriend that I shouldn't pirate because his friend got raided and had to pay fines for pirated software and movies.
I never had any problems tho.
| I have gotten a C&D letter from my ISP after shittons of torrents, so apparently Cartoon Network is especially pious about torrenting. Don't think you really have to be to worried but I have a VPN(PIA) now for peace of mind.
| I'm paying about 3600 in total for torrenting 1 movie and 2 games. Seeding is what thez owned me for. If u seed shortly the most money goes to the attorney (around 800 per case) if you seed long (like a week) about 1k goes is damage u caused. One of these happened while using peerblock.
| What about bongistan. Is the fuzz gonna break down my door?
| >>367081
Can you be more specific?
I have a virtual port separate from my ethernet and a proxy setup but that does nothing?
| >>367081
That's rubbish. Torrenting (copyrighted stuff) just may be illegal where your VPN provider is. Also torrenting via TOR just destroys TORs (datarate-)performance (which is pretty low anyway).
| I once got a c&d email for downloading true detective but never for my terabytes of anime lol. Nothing ever happened with it though
| >>368527
I don't know exactly how it works but torrenting always displays your original ip, kinda in the same way you can see someone's IP in Thor if you are that persons endpoint
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| Everyone i know torrents, and im still waiting for the police to bust em for downloading No Game No Life : Zero or something