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In the USA, they came down hard of torrents. My neighbor got busted a few years back by Xfinity, and it was a big deal.
by hellbannedguy 5y ago
In the USA, they came down hard of torrents.
My neighbor got busted a few years back by Xfinity, and it was a big deal.
- baby 5y agoReally? Got busted a number of time in France and in the US and nothing ever happened and I just kept torrenting.
- jjulius 5y ago>... and it was a big deal. It's my understanding that Xfinity sends a few warning notices, just a little slap on the wrist, before they end up terminating your account or something (though a quick cursory Google brings up a Reddit thread where someone claiming to have worked for Cumcrust said they never saw any accounts terminated for that). I know I received one letter like 7 years ago for downloading 'Christmas Vacation' and nothing else ever happened. Speaking from experience, if you use a VPN to torrent then they'll leave you alone. I'd be curious how much - and what - your neighbor was doing to have made it a big deal, and what Xfinity's response/reaction was.
- leetcrew 5y agomaybe times have changed, but before I got a VPN, I used to get copyright notices all the time. I didn't notice for a few years because they went to an @comcast.com email address that I never checked. when I finally looked, I saw pages and pages of sternly written emails. if freely torrenting movies for years isn't enough to get disconnected, I dunno what is.
- d110af5ccf 5y agoThat's odd. For a long time the standard response in the US was to severely throttle connection speed for some duration if there were too many notices within a given time period.
- socialist_coder 5y agoBest solution IMO is to rent a $10 a month seedbox and use it for torrenting. And/or only use private trackers. Stay away from the public ones.