• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Lol.

    Do ISPs like making money?

    Then they shouldn’t disconnect users who pirate.

    I get notifications from my ISP all the time. They don’t do anything though because they like the money I give them.

    • bthest@lemmy.world
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      42 minutes ago

      I’ve been torrenting movies and software since 2000, no vpn, like I literally have torrented damn near everything I’ve watched for decades and have only gotten a notice once and it wasn’t even me. It was from a temporary roommate who had watched a movie on a pirate streaming site.

      So that tells you how good and accurate their detection techniques are.

      • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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        Their methods are fine, they literally just pirate the stuff themselves, see which IPs connect to them, then connect those to an ISP and notify them. The main reasons you wouldn’t get notices are getting lucky, not seeding much, not torrenting things that are being monitored, or having an ISP that doesn’t care much.

        The single notice from the streaming site makes sense, pirate streaming sites are usually honeypots or heavily monitored.

    • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      After switching to torbrowser for all my questionable searches and downloads, I no longer get notices from my ISP for like 10 years now