So I set up a proxy for uTorrent..
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Is there any reason to expect that this will protect me from litigation in the least bit? I imagine that if the RIAA were looking to sue someone for filesharing, they'd probably decide not to waste their time once they realized that the person was in Sweden, so I used a Swedish server.
Did I do the right thing, or is it easy for them to recognize and get around this sort of thing?
Did I do the right thing, or is it easy for them to recognize and get around this sort of thing?
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It's really easy for them to get around it, i had a friend downloading torrents and he got contacted by the pentagon, and i havent seen or heard from him since.
omg rly?
But seriously, I remember getting a warning for downloading Gran Torino too soon after it was released. Nothing ever came of it, but it made me realize that this is serious business. It seems as though that since 2008, they haven't been bringing many lawsuits to court.
Lulz. Same thing. Just a cease order basically. Meh. I've gotten a few of the letters. I stopped torrenting more recent shit.
You really think so?
I'm much less worried anyway due to what is more or less the cessation of file-sharing lawsuits, except in the cases of "Flagrant violators."
Imagine the look on his face lol
Peer Guarding/ Peer Block
VPN/Seed Box if required.
Also, my friend downloaded one album using torrents and had to go to court and pay a fine. And that was a single album.
I know this guy who was in contact with the FBI at one point and faced various charges. They got onto the subject of piracy and downloads, and they pretty much straight up told him that unless you're downloading 9001 movies/albums a day, or you download something from the wrong place (IE, somewhere being monitored), then you'll get fucked over. Just stay conscious about what you're doing and you'll be fine.
I presume that you can't tell which sites are being monitored and which aren't? Also, it's not the FBI that I'm worried about, it's those private companies that the niggers at the RIAA and MPAA hire to go after downloaders.
As for the album that your friend downloaded, was it a fairly new album?
I'd personally stick to private trackers for maximum safety, and use Peerguardian or something to be sure.
Not sure what the album was, to be honest. Don't think it was anything particularly new or old. All I know is, he got a letter through about a week later stating what he had downloaded, where it had come from, and that he should attend court etc.
It wasn't a C&D? Shit, what ended up happening?
Basically, after getting the letter, he went to court and his mom payed the fine out of money which he inherited from his dead millionaire grandpa. Side note - He spent pretty much all of that money on weed, new shoes, skateboards, and a skatepark in his back yard. He didn't go to school at all, and now has a totally fucked up life.
Cease and Desist. That's all I got when I downloaded Gran Torino, a letter telling me to stop that shit.
Shit sucks.
Hahaha. I download a shit load of stuff through the college internet connection, using Megaupload and Rapidshare etc. They don't even notice, its awesome. Plus, they run a super high speed connection which lets me get things in literally seconds.
I got busted once by my uni's isp. They threaten to expel people now for "illegal filesharing" so lots of people quit doing it. Quite a few got lawsuits here too. Pretty fucking stupid.