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In the US the (very) common scenario is to get a couple warnings from your ISP and if you continue torrenting copyrighted material you will be dropped as a cust
by nemo 6y ago
In the US the (very) common scenario is to get a couple warnings from your ISP and if you continue torrenting copyrighted material you will be dropped as a customer and banned.
- whimsicalism 6y ago> the (very) common scenario is to get a couple warnings from your ISP and if you continue torrenting copyrighted material you will be dropped as a customer and banned. This is not "very" common - the ISPs don't really ban you, they just threaten you. I no longer do this, but I extensively torrented over multiple home ISPs and they would send me warnings but they would never actually do anything.
- nemo 6y agoAT&T has banned a friend permanently so I would be careful about over-broad generalizations. Folks in my my household were torrenting and we got our service cut with the second offense until we went through some rigmarole promising we'd never do it again at which point they stopped. The cost to an ISP's lawyers to field these things isn't free and at least some really do respond with action.
- whimsicalism 6y agoI'm curious if the action taken depends on broadband competition in the area - do you live in a city?
- bboygravity 6y agoFrance was pressured by the US diplomatically to do the same in France. It's called HADOPI. Source: wikileaks