My ISP sent me a message in the mail for torrenting season 3 of family guy, not even in an email...

My ISP sent me a message in the mail for torrenting season 3 of family guy, not even in an email. Just like the email variant it wants me to remove the infringing material, but in this it said if it happens again they'd send some guy to check my computer.

What the fuck do I do? Why does my internet provider act different when I torrent cartoons over everyone else's? Everyone else gets emails but I got it in my mailbox and I've never heard anyone say a technician might come by if it happens again.

I just wanted to rewatch an HD version of family guy damn it, and family guy isn't worth the hassle. This blows. I saw another ISP C&D torrenting thread about rick and morty a few months ago so since I got this while downloading a cartoon just that user I'm assuming this is fine, his thread lasted without getting deleted.

Happened to me with South Park, TWICE. The second email/letter? said "one more time and you're fucked". Some material is fiercely protected, while most is left unguarded.

Is this the power of the Mouse?

Find a private tracker

Time to be an adult

They are a cable company, not the Gestapo. Tell them to piss off and slam the door in their face. Then find a VPN and a new ISP

fuck em. dont stop and keep a microwave next to your computer

why not just use Megas? Or is that the same thing? idk I don't mess with any of that

It is literally just bark and no bite bullshit.
I get those all the time. I just throw them in the trash. What happens is the IP holder contacts your ISP with a list of IP addresses and say "REEEE THEYRE STEALIN MY SHIT!!!". The ISP, too lazy to actually do anything but wants to get this shitflinging monkey off their backs, send mildly threatening letters to scare chumps.

Stop dowloading normie garbadge. Why would you want to dowload Family Guy? Just watch it in streaming.

>after writing this post, 10 comcast agents broke into Anonymous's house and buttfucked him until he stopped torrenting paw patrol

If a guy comes over, tell him to get lost. What're they gonna do, cancel your sevice? lol as long as you pay them every month, they could give a rat's ass.

>My ISP sent me a message in the mail for torrenting season 3 of family guy, not even in an email
Happened to me once with (I believe) Zootopia. They send messages if you're excessively seeding copyrighted material, not leeching. Just be careful about what you seed, and you should be fine.

There is no money for the ISP to do that. They want two things to happen: Shut up the IP holder, and keep taking your money every month.

Tell em to eat a fat one then download a terabyte of porn. Show them whose boss.

shit this did happen after the buyout didn't it? but yea apparently FG is no good, this is the first time getting one of these in like my 10 years of torrenting

I have a few but they don't carry these hard to find torrents, like HQ DVD rips, if I knew my internet provider, I don't think they're cable/have cable, would get pissy after 10 years I would've just stuck with Kametsu like most anons here.

The worst of it is that this happened a few weeks back, I've done more torrenting between then and now and if they get pissed over it I don't know if they'll send that technician, email-based anons say don't respond because they'll get your IP address but this was sent directly to my mailbox yesterday.

>Stop dowloading normie garbadge
Sorry, early family guy is my weakness. Later FG, later Simps, Rick and Morty, ETC can go get fucked for all I care.

I thought my bittorrent program was set up to not actually seed but I guess it got fucked up and went back to seeding without letting me know

So they won't actually do anything? because I don't want this shit getting complicated and I'm positive that they're gonna nail me again for something that happened between then and now

It's sad that the golden age of piracy seems to be over. If the death of all the reliable sites weren't enough, this Net Neutrality shit has got us by the balls. I swear Comcast is already throttling my bT down to pre-2008 numbers.

I wouldn't mind so much, except I lost my two EHDs full of stuff from long defunct links. All those comics and cartoons, lost like tears in the rain...

>The worst of it is that this happened a few weeks back, I've done more torrenting between then and now and if they get pissed over it I don't know if they'll send that technician, email-based anons say don't respond because they'll get your IP address but this was sent directly to my mailbox yesterday.
user, you're really stressing over nothing. Nobody actually gives a shit about you downloading a season of Family Guy, they just have to go through the motions.

>Sorry, early family guy is my weakness
adult swim is cycling through the early episodes now actually, I know what you mean I still enjoy them, but y'know like everybody had those DVDs back in the 2000s, you could probably pick up some preowned ones on eBay for like 5 bucks per season.

If they DO actually send someone just say you didn't know you couldn't do that

I'm 22 and I have no idea what a VPN even is, I feel like a fucking boomer when it comes to technology

Be thoughtful of what you pirate, and consider looking up ways to better your chances of being undetected when torrenting more popular/protected things.
Most music albums, most books, every single video game ever made, and old movies/tv shows from not-so-big companies are fair game. Nobody in this group has the money, lawyers, or willpower to sue over it. A companies rights is only as good as the size of their coffers. So torrenting anything Disney or Fox probably isn't the best idea, because they are loaded and are known for going after pirates. Unless you know what you're doing. Because you might get a paper cut having to throw all those damn letters in the trash.

It's ironically safer to direct download stuff than to torrent it, so long as you have a reliable source.

I'm OP, I know what a VPN is but I don't deal with those things, I'd rather just stop torrenting that use those.

I was just wanting reassurance, man. I've seen ISP cease and desists mentioned all the time but this one was unique and I wasn't sure if my stupid internet provider was going to get me in the ass because they seem to be more assholish than say Time Warner cable internet

Streaming, OP.

And if they come to check your computer for real tell them to fuck off. They definitely don't get to do that

>I was just wanting reassurance, man
And I'm giving it to you. You'll be fine.

They can't "check your computer" without your consent. If they actually try this don't let them.

I got the same thing for torrenting Shrek 2.

Well, you deserved it.

I got a cease and desist living email when I torrented Shrek 11

Why the hell are you torrenting Family Guy of all things?

It stands for "Virtual Point Networking" and is what happens when the correct radio waves from the modem accesses your internalized frequalizer in the senders internet infrastructure (usually a brown box). It was coined in the 80's at the international computer fair when Apple presented the first wireless antenna for turning radio waves into bytes. Which was the first step to getting radio to your computer.

Seriously. I didn't know people still downloaded shows or movies. Music I understand, since you can take it on the go, but torrenting is such a fucking hassle when there are decent quality uploads for most shows nowadays.

Because I wanted 3 episodes from Season 3 that were in shit quality everywhere else, and the kisscartoon replacements are virus infested trash

I downloaded 90 gigs of porn about a month ago.
I thought for sure my ISP would do something about that

>still using eMule for hard-to-find material
>mfw finding it

kisscartoon is kimcartoon me now
just get ublock origin and some other shit and that'll be good to go

Sounds like you should look out for suspicious vans parked outside your house.

They don't have any legal ground to actually search any of your belongings. At most they can take you to court and present their recorded IP history as proof, but not only is that not objective proof (they can't prove that it was YOU who did it, even if it was on your service, and you aren't responsible for what anyone else does on it.) In many places the maximum reperation they can get out of you is less than what it would cost to take you to court.

They're just trying to scare you into stopping or they're doing it to keep the IP holders happy. You just have to not ever respond in a way that acknowledges your guilt or otherwise admit to it.

>they'd send some guy to check my computer.

That just sounds like bullshit. They can't legally do that without your permission. Some guy comes to your house threatening to examine your computer just don't let them in. This isn't a police matter, they'll just send some dude from your cable company who doesn't hold any legal power.

>only worry if a lawyer gets involved
would just continuing to torrent get lawyers involved?

Actually, OP, if you're still in the thread, would you mind uploading a picture of the letter they sent? I'm kind of curious what they actually threatened you with.

they'd theoretically be able to use that link and the OP as an admission of guilt, though. Not sure if it's a good idea.

Why would his ISP be monitoring his Sup Forums posting history?

No way my main man. It's not just but I've said pretty much what they said. I feel skeptical posting the letter, or typing out the full thing. They didn't even say it was Fox that sent them the thing, just that they've been notified.

I used to torrent all the time and only stopped because I had to wipe my computer after it was riddled with viruses.
I never got any warning for it. I think you'll be fine.

I never did either in 10 years and then this happened, and I think I've downloaded this same torrent before

No, this is the power of Fox. There's a reason that Animation Domination livestreams stopped being a thing years ago.

I get at least three of these emails a week. They don't do shit, it's just scare tactics because they know 90% of idiots will fall for it, and it gets the content owners off their backs because they can say "see look we're doing something about it" when in reality they're not doing shit, just throwing out empty threats.

>I get at least three of these emails a week
Wow, you must be doing something really wrong. I've gotten one message about it in the ten years I've been torrenting.

My internet provider is area based, like they're somewhat local I guess, so I'm curious if they're gonna act out against it since they're not like Dish or Time Warner

What do you look for in a good vpn? How's ShadeYou?