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David_cadbury said:
So I got a DMCA notice from my ISP recently, for a movie file my room mate downloaded. Then I freaked out and removied all my torrents and questionable software.
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Comcast and AT&T is starting to issue DMCA's. I have heard you can counter it(not sure if it will do any good). Also you or your friend might have been seeding a lot of files too(many torrent sites default seed), which can cause your ISP to notice these activities.

So to answer the question, yes they are issuing them more often and your friend must have stuck out.
 
David_cadbury said:
So I got a DMCA notice from my ISP recently, for a movie file my room mate downloaded. Then I freaked out and removied all my torrents and questionable software. Has this been happening more and more lately to everyone or are we just lucky randoms?
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Just out of curiosity where are you from and do you mind saying who your ISP is? I'm from the UK and so far I've had no trouble with my torrenting *touches wood.

My mate's brother now lives and works in Germany and when I told him the extent of my downloading he said you'd never get anywhere near as much done there before the threats start coming.

Production companies are such greedy arseholes. We get nothing but an endless stream of pointless remakes, super hero movies and movie sequels and the actors are grossly overpaid. I'll keep downloading for free as long as I can and I feel it's the people's moral obligation to download these films for free rather than chucking your hard-earned at the lazy and the talentless. In a world where Kim Kardasian is multi-millionaire for merely existing we must download things for free.
 
I reckon i will soon cos my dumbass housemate downloads like 12GB per day and the connection is in my name
 
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I remember my dad saying something about True Blood being downloaded through our internet. However, neither me nor my brother downloaded that show. Someone had to of been using our ISP as wireless internet to download some vampire TV show.
 
Somehow, no. Not at my home anyway. Did get one in college though. Had a rather funny meeting with my school's dean about why torrenting The Goonies is a SERIOUS OFFENSE that we all take VERY SERIOUSLY.

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR WOULD YOU?
 
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David_cadbury said:
So I got a DMCA notice from my ISP recently, for a movie file my room mate downloaded. Then I freaked out and removied all my torrents and questionable software. Has this been happening more and more lately to everyone or are we just lucky randoms?
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I got one to my Comcast account shared with a number of roommates, for some TV show or another. It turned out to be because someone was sloppy and gave out the password to the upstairs neighbors.

My IP also once copped a 4chan ban for someone camwhoring and apparently annoying a mod.
 
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Nope. Never. (knock on wood)

My ISP (Brighthouse) gave free usenet until the middle of this year, now you still get it for a slight fee.

So I'm pretty sure that's about as explicitly saying "do whatever, we don't care" as possible.
 
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Comcast emailed my parents 3 times for torrents when I was in high school.

They never did shit about it though and I torrented way more than three times.
 
I've been torrenting for decades (yes, 1.2 decades is still decades) and only got my first notices in the past six months. Like 5 notices for some episodes of Silicon Valley.

Optimistically, it might be because pursuing DMCA notices aggressively probably isn't worth it for media companies. That is, they can probably hire some company to farm out sending notices, but doing much past that probably isn't worth it.

And then more realistically, I probably haven't gotten many notices because my taste in media is more old stuff. I don't frequently torrent, say, recent movie releases and popular current TV shows.
 
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In Australia isp's kind of quietly encourage you to use them to torrent without actually saying it
 
Marvin said:
I've been torrenting for decades (yes, 1.2 decades is still decades) and only got my first notices in the past six months. Like 5 notices for some episodes of Silicon Valley.

Optimistically, it might be because pursuing DMCA notices aggressively probably isn't worth it for media companies. That is, they can probably hire some company to farm out sending notices, but doing much past that probably isn't worth it.

And then more realistically, I probably haven't gotten many notices because my taste in media is more old stuff. I don't frequently torrent, say, recent movie releases and popular current TV shows.
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Yeah I think I am going to only torrent stuff I need from here on out. no more just downloading willie nilly like some kind of maniac. I'm gonna be deliberate with my torrenting.
 
Marvin said:
And then more realistically, I probably haven't gotten many notices because my taste in media is more old stuff. I don't frequently torrent, say, recent movie releases and popular current TV shows.
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Most popular shows have some community associated with them and pretty often there's a semi-private archive of all the episodes hosted on Mega or something. The problem with torrenting is by definition you're also sharing the file. Even if you're a pig who turns off all uploading you're still in the list and they'll still DMCA your ass.
 
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My parents got one when I was 16, but they got my usernames and email addresses wrong and we weren't in the country during the dates mentioned. We ignored it and nothing happened. Narrowly avoided a shitstorm from my parents though.
 
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