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HBO has been monitoring torrents for a long time and sending letters to ISPs. VPNs and seed boxes get around this.
by BubRoss 7y ago
HBO has been monitoring torrents for a long time and sending letters to ISPs. VPNs and seed boxes get around this.
- walrus01 7y agoNot everybody is in DMCA jurisdiction. Maximum liability in Canada is something like $5000, which makes it uneconomical for a copyright owner to actually send a lawyer to court to litigate against a person who wants to defend themselves.
- BubRoss 7y agoI'm not sure what you are saying, no one implied everyone was in the reach of HBO. The parent was saying HBO was going to go after torrenters in the future, but they have been doing it for years.
- walrus01 7y agoI guess what I'm saying is that inevitably in these sorts of discussions, about legal repercussions, the assumption is that the torrenters are physically located in the US 50 states.
- BubRoss 7y agoNo one assumed that here, the parent said HBO would go after torrenters in the future and they have been for a long time already.
- paulmd 7y agoIn fact, HBO is perhaps the most aggressive monitoring/enforcement of all content-creators. They are very, very proactive.