They once tried with me and i proved it was shared copy someone had bought and paid for thus couldnt charge me. Obviously greedy companys do try to go after people illegally and if people arent educated theu cant fight back. I got the same warning. It was for a brand new movie that was still in theaters. I believe since it was a copy of a screening for audiences before theater release the production company kept track of who was downloading it and sharing it.
Scared the crap out of me and I talked to a guy from the firm that handled legislation for the production company. Needless to I deleted all the movies I downlaoded that day and the Torrent site.
Kind of scared to use UTorrent again…. Many of you keep telling that you got a warning. If torrentz is illegal why use it. If you feel its legal then simply use it. First gather some information about it and study it.
I have a question. I recently downloaded a bunch of software via torrents thinking that it was fine and that it was really stealing. After discussing it with some friends I realized I was wrong. Do you think that if I delete all the software it will be ok.
Please respond. You have already broken the law, but to be honest…considering the mass amount of pirates out there no one will even care. Deleting them would most certainly help your case, but as I said, there is no case to begin with.
Law enforcement has enough problems as it is with millions of people illegally downloading content on a regular basis. You will be fine. To shut down a website, the government has to go through a lot of bureaucracy. I prefer it that way. The less the government can interfere, the better it is for all of us, even non-pirates.
Piracy can be solved through private solutions. Torrent sites are next to impossible to shut down. Governments have raided and seized all the computers and stuff at a location where the website was at. The torrent website was thus shutdown, and it was open once again in less than 48hrs.
These sites do a lot of backups of their systems and can get a new location for their servers quickly, but they still have to buy new computers and get everything setup on them, before the website can be up and running again.
Whereas others, such as Mininova. The site is hosted in the Netherlands, and decided to comply with their law that was passed They were shutdown and moved several times before this. It is illegal in most jurisdictions.
Untaxed cigarettes are illegal, yet people can still find them. I recently tried to download a game not by torrent and it gave me threats on my computer. Should I switch to torrent? I scan regularly about once a week with MalwareBytes Anti-malware. All this stuff seems very important and it seems very confusing for me.
Now, I hope you are aware that downloading games is also illegal. But if you insist. For example, if there are two identical files, but one has a million downloads and the other has a thousand, then maybe you should go with the one with the millions. Hope this helped. Well it is illegal if someone copied it and made it free, but some games from the original publisher are free. Yes, there is a surge in FTP free-to-play games, however they have to keep their servers running, too.
For this reason, they restrict you significantly until you purchase in-game privileges. I like it. At least someone will try. I got one warning via a letter from my cable provider, I then switched to Verizon FiOS as my provider.
I then got a nother warning: however it was a phone call. Three years later I got a guy in a suit and tie knocking on my door with a list of all the downloads I had done in an amount for me to pay as a lovely fine! Ha ha ha…..! I think Torrent is not illegal, but downloading copyrighted material from torrent is illegal.
So buddy, download things that are legal and leave stuffs illegal. No body can monitor them. So downloading copyrighted stuffs through torrents can work in such countries. Yes this exactly what can happen. Just like people use to buy untaxed cigarettes on the internet, but some states cracked down and forced those buyers to pay taxes, after years. So it is a real risk. I have been getting warning emails from my ISP Comcast for about 10 years because of my torrent downloads.
I have yet to see them take any action against me. Friends uncle is an FBI agent that investigates internet crimes. He said that they are not going after the average citizen who downloads from torrents, but more going after those supplying the illegal content to the torrent sites and those bootlegging and trying to sell the stuff on the street, etc. I said to him, in light of this new information. I wish to confess to downloading illegal content via torrents, and clapped my writs together in prep.
He laughed and told me that even if he did, it would get thrown out before it made it to court. It would cost the court system over a million dollars to prosecute me and such, even if I said I was guilty and made a written statement to the fact.
Interesting anecdote, thanks for sharing. I too have been downloading for years and have received a few warnings from my ISP from time to time without any other more substantial consequence.
Just so that everyone is clear. Downloading copyrighted material is in fact NOT illegal. It is not you responsibility as a downloader to determine if a distributor has a legal right to distribute a copyrighted work. What IS illegal when bit-torrenting, is the distribution a copyrighted product without license to do so. By default when downloading in a swarm you are uploading, hence distributing the copyrighted product.
Aviod identification by this by using an open VPN. A quick google search and 60 minutes of reading up and learning how to use tools such as this will keep you anonymous and keep the torrent market booming. I actually run through a paid VPN and a open VPN also remote connect to a server that was paid for with bitcoin that has rutorrent on it. I travel alot, and use a live cd distro of linux on a mb encrypted thumbdrive to access all of it.
The lesson here is, one can be to paranoid, or one can avoid being detected and avoid the threat letters and possible jail time waiting to see a judge.. Who the hell uses onion routing for Torrents? I didnt know it was illegal and im panicking.
I have maybe a movie or 2 and three cds downloaded on my computer now. They need more than a warning and a record of you downloading something to persecute you, if it ever even gets to that. At one point I had that software on my mac but now I have the newer version I am an expat who lives in China. Over the past few years I have torrented about one terabyte of movies, music, and TV shows which I then copied onto a removable hard drive upon download completion.
I plan to return to the U. My question is, is there a way for the government to track my torrents to my removable hard drive? They may confiscate them no charges, depending on the country and just send you on your merry way. And yes, I did. I feel spied on. Their obligation was to tell me that they received complaints from someone representing the copyright holder.
I thought it was only illegal to do the coping and sharing of files. Guess I better stop downloading. Thanks for the info. All of you — just go check out Seedboxes — been using them for ages.
Super fast, easy, simple. You can access from anywhere in the world, even mobile phones. You can stream the stuff after you download it if you have to. I learned from my son and it is simple.
You are not so clever as you may think. At this point it is a matter of ethics and moral responsibility. If you are downloading something that the public has to purchase buy you are stealing. No more torrents, no more media theft. Stop it. It is not worth it. Though original software is for free but some of its contents are paid version and the torrent file which I downloaded was not on most of the torrents site so will it be easier for me to be get arrested.
And If torrenting is illegal so why are the downloaders arrested, I think the one who uploads it should be arrested. I circumvented it by using onion routing. Leave the innocent people alone and go after the real bad guys.
Should this worry me?? Was it an email? Did it contain your IP address and a time stamp, and the file you were downloading? Or was it just saying how much you have to pay and how many hours you have? These are questions you should ask in the process of scrutinizing an email. Interpol usually deals with maritime piracy, not digital piracy. And yes it had a time frame which was counting down from 48 hours.
They had my IP address and they even knew my location and the user name of my computer. So I immediately disconnected my internet on all accounts and went into safe mode, using system restore to get my computer working again… So getting to a conclusion this is possibly, maybe, just someone trying to scare me? My real question is what should I do now? Or should I also get rid of any and all items, maybe even the hard drive I was using? Seems to me like the F.
Makes up for being illegal no? In some countries its very difficult to buy Original DVDs of movies, games and music etc. Torrents were invented by genius programmer Brad Cohen back in Before torrents came about, you had to download a file from a single source. What Cohen did was decentralize the download game. Now each computer that possessed a copy of a file could give away its part to the whole network.
The latter are called torrent trackers. Each torrent tracker has its library of downloads and is maintained by the user community. If you have ever downloaded anything or just planning from these sites, check your computer for adware.
This app is actually notarized by Apple, and it pretty easily uncovers hidden adware on your Mac. If you use a PC, you may scan your computer for adware with Malwarebytes. BitTorrent is the first and most popular torrent protocol. It counts million users in every country imaginable. This image is for illustration purposes only — downloading cracked versions of apps is illegal!
This is the shortest way of infecting your Mac with malware. One-third of all torrent downloads is pirated content. Back in , Anton Vaulin, the creator of KickAssTorrents site was arrested after numerous copyright infringement claims. Note that using torrents is perfectly safe if you share only non-copyrighted material. Unless you use VPN your IP-address remains visible and you can easily be tracked by copyright watchdogs.
Some countries have draconian laws against torrenting. For example, in Japan, uploading torrents is punishable with up to 10 years of prison. Seeding means publicly sharing your files within the network. Leeching is way of parasitic behavior and is referred to those users who remove their downloads from public sharing. Some users prefer to use torrents only one-way as a means of getting content.
On the flip side, most torrent tracker sites give you privileges for acting in a pro-community way. Using torrents is banned in most companies, and copyright infringement is not the only reason for that. When you use torrents, your computer is in active back-and-forth with the P2P network. This takes its toll on memory and available disk space. Obviously, your internet speed also goes down. This is because sharing large files takes up bandwidth. By reducing the amount of bandwidth being used, ISPs can save money.
Our recommendation is ExpressVPN , for a number of reasons. First, it has a large network of P2P-ready servers which helps avoid bottlenecks. It also takes privacy very seriously and keeps no identifiable logs.
Christian is a freelance writer and content project manager with over six years' experience writing and leading teams in finance and technology for some of the world's largest online publishers, including TechRadar and Tom's Guide.
Torrenting is a highly popular type of file sharing based on P2P, or peer-to-peer, meaning that files are shared directly between users rather than passing through a centralized server. What is torrenting used for? However, there are a few dangers to be aware of.
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