Have you ever gotten a DMCA notice from your ISP? - Share you stories

[MrTroll]

Literally never because I don't watch whatever gayass HBO/Showtime drama is in vogue this week and if I did I'd download episodes over IRC.

 

[Ravenor]

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.

Don't worry, DMCA requests are strictly American - in the UK and bolstered by EU membership we currently have some good laws protecting us from this kinda bollocks, and it's safely ignored but most ISP's will forward them onto you.

I'll give you a example, I'm very good friends with a documentary maker and because I have a lot of spare capacity in my cluster I host his webpage free of charge the US distributor filed a claim on his whole bloody domain for a single film, an they did the same to youtube where he had the promo posted, I ignored it about my hosting his site but youtube took a little longer and several emails to convince before they rejected the complaint.

I could sperg for ages about this but in the UK but your safe torrenting, ISP's are not just allowed to hand over your details for a civil matter, and evading the growing great firewall of England isn't illegal.

 

[David_cadbury]

How are you going to torrent food and water?

Im talking about creative software YOU DUMMIE

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Once in 2012 for downloading Army of Darkness. I've used Peerblock since then and have never got another one.

 

[LikeicareKF]

DMCA complaints to individuals are more used as scare tactics. Unless you are the one hosting the original file you dont really ever need to worry

 

[Sexy Rexxy]

I got one a few years ago for seeding a movie. I just ignored it despite the "first and final warning" tone. Nothing ever came of it.

 

[AnOminous]

If it's porn, there are lots of copyright trolls that exist solely to sue people over embarrassing porn. They get lots of tards to cough up lots of money rather than have their spouses find out they're into bestiality porn and similar shit.

 

[polonium]

If it's porn, there are lots of copyright trolls that exist solely to sue people over embarrassing porn. They get lots of tards to cough up lots of money rather than have their spouses find out they're into bestiality porn and similar shit.

You seem oddly knowledgable here

 

[AnOminous]

You seem oddly knowledgable here

It's a pretty notorious practice. There have been a number of important precedents about the practice, many related to the infamous Prenda Law.

 

[polonium]

It's a pretty notorious practice. There have been a number of important precedents about the practice, many related to the infamous Prenda Law.

Yah, that's definitely it

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

for the years i've been torrenting shit i haven't had a single notice

 

[melty]

We got one or two for Last Week Tonight. Didn't really do anything about it and that was awhile ago. I'm pretty sure they realized suing poor people for downloading like ten songs wasn't endearing them to anyone.

 

[SpessCaptain]

You can easily ignore them, if you admit to them then you fucked up. And in the end you can always claim that someone else was downloading your files.

 

[John Titor]

I got a notice but I ignored it because the email address looks suspicious so I automatically assumed it was a fraud.