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Comment on ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy

person420@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I had to process these requests at a company I used to work for. They do send “proof” (proof in quotes because you have to believe in good faith they didn’t just make it up, which I have to believe they didn’t).

We never shut anyone off though. We worked with business exclusively and only ever sent “scary” letters. Though we had one client that was a major music venue (a very known venue that’s pretty famous) who would get these letters all the time. The irony was too much for me. I ended up calling them personally most of the time because it was too funny.

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fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I remember getting a scary letter because I was torrenting. I thought it so funny because I had to the only person in the world only torrenting freeaoftwarr and public domain works.

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- LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wait then what was it for?
  
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  - barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They don’t give a shit about targeting accusations only towards people torrenting copyrighted stuff. Why would they? They have no consequences for being incorrect.
    
    They are doing this automatically. They just grab all the magnet links they can find and target any IP they connect to, regardless of the content.
    
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    A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    They have no consequences for being incorrect.
    
    Which is why the DMCA shit is also bullshit.
    
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve never gotten a scary letter, and I’ve certainly torrented my fair share of stuff, both legal and otherwise.

The trick, I think, is to not use cable. I’ve had municipal fiber, Google fiber, DSL, and small local ISP (RJ45 hookup at the wall), and never once had an issue. The last one is probably annoyed at me because I tend to submit tickets and call them within a few minutes of my service going down (happens once/month or so). It’s extra funny when they ask me to check my wifi settings on my router, and I tell them my router doesn’t have wifi (it’s a Mikrotik router, my AP is separate), and that my wifi is absolutely fine, it’s the uplink that’s busted (i.e. I can access all the stuff on my NAS).

I made a promise to myself that once I left the house, I’d never get cable. And that’s a promise I’ve kept across multiple apartments and now my house. We’re finally getting muni fiber, so I’m pretty excited.

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- blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s more likely you aren’t using popular freely indexable trackers on currently airing popular media.
  
  Try torrenting a current episode of a top 10 watched show within a week of release and see how fast you get one lol.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, I generally only torrent older media (like a few years old).
    
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