Comment on The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

• ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP’s in US Canada nd UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting.

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  • Archr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have never heard of this happening. And I’ve gotten multiple cease and desist letters from my ISP. ISPs don’t really have the case for a suit anyways, but there are third party companies that companies like Disney will pay to watch torrents for them and ask your ISP to send you that letter.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A decade or so ago, there were some widely-publicized cases of folks who got absolutely ruined with six- or seven-figure judgements against them for copyright infringement.

      Example from 2012.

      Maybe it was a tactic the copyright cartel used in the mid-2000s and then stopped or something, but it was enough to shift folks’ behavior such that using VPNs became the norm.

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are correct, it’s super uncommon to get sued for pirating unless you’re a major player. If you get busted by your ISP too many times, though, they may give you the boot. My ISP has a 9 strikes in one rolling year policy (at least last I knew).

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Canada limits the amount that a company can sue for downloading pirated media to the point where it’s not worth it for the company to actually take it to court. The company can ask the ISP to send an email to try to scare the user, but that’s about it.

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    • MetricIsRight@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Been getting those emails for 10+ years, I just laugh and keep seeding.

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    • ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      this is great news

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  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You didnt answer the question

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, we get the VPN part. What about the port-forwarding part?

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    • ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I might have used the wrong word. I think the term is binding a VPN to a torrenting application so that all data going in andd oit of pass thru the vpns servers

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      • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But isn’t that how VPNs work, binding the network interface connected to it to the applications?

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  • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shit they do that? Man that sucks. People go to jail? Or have to pay fines?

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    • SeriousBug@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fines. And say you seeded a movie to 1000 people and a DVD of the movie costs $20, they sue you for $20000, treating it like you broke into a warehouse and stole 1000 DVDs of the movie.

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