Have you ever been caught pirating?

Have you ever been caught pirating?
Did you get in a trouble?

i'm curious because i know someone who has been doing it off and on for 4 years and they have never even gotten a email or letter.

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Got caught once about 7 years ago. ISP cut service and got a cease and desist letter. Had to sign a form saying I wouldn't do it again and they turned it back on.

My mom says breaking the law is what criminals do. And criminals are bad.

Yeah my isp snitched me out. Got police on my ass. Told them my wifi wasnt secured and they believed it.

> See screenshots on Sup Forums of a new Lexi Belle video after she gained a bunch of weight
> Dick goes nuts for THICC so I decide to download the video
> Get it from TPB
> The ass was fat
> More like Taco Belle lol
> Cum buckets over a few days
> Forget about it
> a couple days later roommate gets a letter in the mail from Comcast bitching about "unauthorized downloads" blah blah blah
> Feign ignorance
> Other roommates do the same
> Blame it on the weird asshole roommate
> He denies it but everyone thinks it was him
> Cracks me up whenever I think about it

That's been it, really.

>use a good vpn
>pay attention to what methods you're connecting to the server with
>turn off IPv6 if not covered by vpn
>spoof MAC address
>use a virtual machine or a junk laptop
>consider ssl tunneling

I'm pirating every day. For my country is not an issue.. also hi-speed internet. donwloading with 10mb/sec for the price of 14$/mo

i download shit everyday and never got a problem with it, im guessing is just americans who get in trouble for this

ironically, the one time they tried to get me, it was something I had not been responsible for.
The case was closed pretty quickly though.

What the fuck. Do you own your own Island-country?

Tfw I've been doing it for 4 years thinking it was legal and never gotten a warning

would very much like to, but no

in my country its not illegal to pirate shit for my own use

DONT DO IT, IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO A SUICIDE SQUAD GUANTANAMO BAY LIKE JAIL.

Anyone ever got a letter for streaming movies of putlocker or shit like that?

get out of here you fucktard

depends entirely on your ISP, some care some dont.

My bud had his net restricted, he could only visit certain sites/do certain things. I don't know the exact details but to my knowledge that's what happened. Eventually he switched ISP's and all was good I suppose.

Why do people think downloading a number is illegal? People shouldn't be able to put copyrights on numbers.

>I thought of that number first so you have to pay a licence to use it

Computers just work with numbers, 1s and 0s.

I've received dozens of emails from Charter, but nothing has happened yet.

This is all that happens.

I just stream. Haven't been fucked with yet. I think they are more interested in distributors than the fuckers watching.

Would you download a car?

fuck you romania I'm paying 30 euros a month for 8mb, this shit is not fair :(

Unless you are in the US then there is absolutely no risk for you to download games or movies, I got fallout 4 a day before it came out in europe FeelsGoodMan

not necessarily pirating but in college I had my internet shut off because i used p2p a lot and it took up too much bandwidth, mostly uploads. just had to talk to tech guy, had me uninstall the software then he unblocked me.

I remember watching The Proud Family that got me real scared of pirating. Didn't want to turn into the Gross sisters.

are you in the USA?

yeah, this was 10+ years ago

Fuck yes i would

Got caught twice, both times nothing really happened but I was kinda spooked.

First time was mainly due to my stupidity. Was in my university dorm, downloaded some big name movie (I think it was Apocalypse Now). A few days later, I got an e-mail telling me to delete that shit from my computer or suffer the consequences. I simply deleted the torrent from the tracker and wasn't bothered again.

The second time was just last year. Downloaded a phat-titty porn vid (wasn't even worth it in the end), and a few months later got an e-mail saying that I'd have to pay $500 if I continued.

Two times out of 10 years of torrenting. I think I'm doing pretty good.

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yes, twice. my isp turned off my internet after each time and i had to call to get them to turn it back on. i played stupid and denied but on the second phone call they said if it happens 3 times in a 12 month period that they go bye bye. and they also informed me that i could face legal action from the creators of the files, lol.

i think their threats are bogus. they're just trying to scare people.

i feel bad for the usa anons and their laws, in europe they let you do whatever you want, if anything they give you a call to ask you to slow down with the downloads if you take too much bandwith or to ask you to upgrade your internet since you're downloading so much, here it's not illegal to download games/music what's illegal is to sell them and no one sells them since everyone knows where to download them, too bad the only country with godlike internet is romania, can't wait to get some of that optic fiber myself

I'm paying 90+/month for 7mb

I feel your pain, user

In my experience there's really only a few things that you can't torrent:
-Mainsteam/big name movies
-Music from major artists
-Big release video games
-American pornography (a recent addition)

Things that are usually safe to torrent:
-Foreign films
-TV shows
-Anime
-Foreign pornography
-Indie music
-books

We pay 40 for 150mbps download :p

The FBI actually shut my wifi down till I deleted my pirated Transformers movie

Is porn ever worth downloading in the end though?

>in USA
>Pirate since about 1993
>Received 2 letters in 2002
>Started using tor to torrent
>Switched to vpn in 2010

Never been shut down, never been arrested, never been sued, never been worried about it much either...

never have I ever and Ive been pirating everyday since I learnt everything is free if you look hard enough.

Idk what Canadian laws are like but I've downloaded lots of stuff and looked at some very shady things. Never got an email, call, or knock.

I looked into it. The threat is mainly a scare tactic, but that hasn't stopped people from sending them money.

Actually (if I remember correctly), it's not even the ISP that sends the e-mail most of the time. Lots of ISPs actually hire third-party companies to monitor their customer traffic and send these threatening e-mails to suspected torrenters. Of course it also doesn't help that some of these companies have gone a little overboard in sending out these e-mails.

150mbs? More like 30mbs.

here in britain they don't even do that, i think a torrent freak article says british isps practically tell you to deny and nothing can be done.
that said i download movies and games like nobody's business and have done for years with out a peep from my isp, i do have the unlimited package though

Most of the time it isn't (a lesson I've learned all too late).

But sometimes it is...

Sometimes...

You gotta be careful though.

Canada has some pretty funny laws that have been interpreted in strange ways in order to get people in trouble. For example: some hentai can be considered literal child pornography.

i work at said isp. Use a VPN.

Yeah, my isp said you have 1tb/Mo limit, I said I want no limit, they said y u no want limit, I said, I no have tv anymore, whoke fam stream everything, they said ok, £20 more a month pls

I've been pirating since I was 12 years old and now I'm 19, never had an issue with it. I'm romanian so I guess they don't even give a shit

Mainsteam/big name movies
i've downloaded disney movies and have gotten nothing
Music from major artists
does david bowie count?
American pornography
i think thats the thing i download the most and have gotten nothing

I got a "Stop downloading this!" type of e-mail from my ISP once many many years ago with a torrent and something really mundane like an episode of a tv show.

Freaked me out, and I read up on the whole "Just don't read the e-mail, and don't fucking use the e-mail your ISP gives you dumb ass..." stuff.

...

Croatia here - no one cares what you download - 40Mb/sec for 25$

>Have you ever been caught pirating?

As in time Warner sending me a warning; or as in my parents seeing uTorrent open?
Neither. I don't usually fucking care. There's much worse out there. And the accumulative amount of fines I would be issued could only be paid off by Forbes Top 100.

I live in Canada. Have used both shaw and telus and ive torrented all sorts of junk for 10 years. Havent heard jack shit about it. Doubt i ever will.

Yeah isp perks are bad news, used to work for a baby bell in the 90's, the software packages we gave customers allowed us to track them, and back door into their command line

And it was with Telus that got me dinged.

I torrent shit all the time, for the last 2 years. No problems. Must not be a big deal in my country.

I use Usenet so no I've not been caught, recently anyway.

Got a cease and desist from Sega back in the 90s I was quite proud of for copying Megadrive/Genesis cartridges.

Well maybe if you didnt download cheese pizza you'd be just fine.

I wonder if my ISP pays attention to the kind of porn I wqatch

Not so much the kind of porn, but they can keep track of the titles.

We don't pay attention,but we aggregate the data and feed it to govt agencies to sort out what if anything to do about it

Other pirates out there typically harbor ulterior motives.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that pirates out there actually turn a profit from what they download and sell to other countries overseas.

Sometimes pirates think they can use Tor to download 100Gbs and upwards of Tb's of music and videos without a person noticing, then complain about people not seeding.

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I hope they watch all my piss porn.

y tho

The worst that happens is a small fine dude.

Mexifag here, so no. not even care.
theres no laws about thath

From what I can tell, us govt at least is mostly interested in cp and snuff

Kek

Because we either do it voluntarily or we have to deal with lawyers fees sorting out warrant searches, your privacy is your responsibility not ours, check your TOS

Uploaders and distributors catch the most heat don't they?

What's wrong with snuff? I get cp that shits just wrong.

Being downloading games and music from PB for 12 years now and didnt have any problems with law
But i guess as i heqrd only germany is strickt for that shit in EU dont know for other countrys

>implying court orders
>implying you're a government run industry

We get tap orders and hand over data, the LEAs decide what who did.

Snuff has to be investigated to see if real or fake. If real, murder case is built I would guess.

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No, we try to avoid having to deal with court orders by just giving them what they want before they go get court orders...

public place with vpn. thats about as much as you really should do. get on craigslist and find some old laptop for 30 bucks and get psiphon 3, best free vpn.

Use seedr with a diposable email and thats an extra layer of protection but you on't be able to download big files without paying.

this is how I never got caught

Yeah I guess filmed murder is illegal to possess, get you linked to it if they saw it in your possession

I think they are more concerned with the murderers, nor the watchers

Yep. And who is they - lawyers? You telling me lawyers get court orders for ISP cooperation in an investigation?

what is possession to you? digital copies or viewing?

No, I'm talking about LEA, people like MPAA don't really bother with subpoenas bc they do their own investigation, and don't have the bandwidth to deal with our data dumps

Wtf 90+ for 7mb? In sweden you can get 1gb fiber for that price.

Who is LEA?

Law Enforcement Agents

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In region where I live personal computer is still very expensive and unbelievable thing
Pentium 4 or same Athlon XP based PC cost at least 1000$
Internet here we got thanks 13.4 kbps dialup technology. Very rich guys have ADSL 1-2 mbps modems.
Ask your questions.

Copies of it lol I don't just curious about it XD

>Have you ever been caught pirating?
>Did you get in a trouble?
Nope, because I don't live in a shithole where ISPs cuck me in a frequent basis :^)

Unless Psiphon 3 can get you past firewalls, you're full of shit.
And who the hell downloads torrents to the Cloud? Keep all your shit on an external USB and take your shit anywhere.
And your computer has an IP of it's own. It shouldn't be too hard for someone to find who is downloading Mb's of data on their network and confront you.

Actually most shitholes don't care. 1st world carriers do for some reason

I used to pirate shit all the time, started off small with music and shows, and started doing games, programs, etc. I decided to delete everything I've ever torrented and just start buying shit instead.

I didn't get caught, i just didn't want to do it anymore i guess.

Time Warner emailed my roommate bc he was streaming stuff. We believe it was bc the Showbox app or Chromecast or the combination of both. I cant remember the movie but it was new...so it could have to do w/ that.

Literally live in the middle of the US and I've never been caught once or sent something and I torrent a lot

Been pirating since I was 10 years old. 21 now and I've never gotten anything about it. Didn't even use a vpn until like 6 years ago.

Even if you had the fanciest hardware and access to a higher bandwidth, it would seem out of place for you wouldn't it?
Suspicious?

It's like cops pulling people over who are driving custom made chops and classic/antique/muscle cars from next year.

Like local FBI agencies? So when someone makes a public threat on Sup Forums, or someone uploads/downloads Tb's of questionable content, the domain's host is required under some national security law (or threat of prosecution under further investigation) to call who?

Local authorities and LEA, or the ISP?