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Let's say some Hollywood lawyer finds the IP address of your Amazon VPN in the list of seeders for some big movie torrent. They send a threatening legal letter

• Grimburger 4y ago
  So this has happened to me. On holiday, hotel surprisingly had a decent firewall in place to block torrenting, used my personal server to download a tv series. Had a copyright notice and warning email within 6 hours. Deleted the content and they were happy. Learnt my lesson not to try that again. Wasn't AWS but a reasonably big vps provider.
  • okdood64 4y ago
    What country was your VPS in?
• nucleardog 4y ago
  Can't speak to AWS, but I used a dedicated box at another US-based provider as a seedbox for nearly two decades. When they received a DMCA complaint they didn't provide our information and generally just didn't seem to care as long as we provided the bare minimum of ass-covering for them. We'd get a ticket opened against our account with a copy of the notice, reply "We've identified one of our users operating in violation of our TOS and have banned the offending user. All copyrighted materials referenced have been deleted." and they'd close the ticket every time. I imagine if this was more than a once-every-three-to-six-months kinda thing the support burden would have had them drop us as a customer, but at no point did they share our information or did any rights-holder take it further.