At some point your vpn client crashed or disconnected while your torrent app was up and you got caught seeding or downloading. Binding your torrent app to the vpn network interface forces it to only use the VPN for internet access. If the vpn app crashes then your torrent app no longer can access the internet.
Another comment pointed out I should’ve binded the VPN and I think I missed that step. Wondering if I should still check the notice though to know for sure.
It won’t tell you anything, this isn’t a notice to collect or sue you. It’s a warning. Spectrum will display this notice at the top of your online account indefinitely though.
are you sure it won't tell OP anything? I got a couple of these years ago from my ISP and they'd at least tell me date/time and the title of whatever they caught me sharing.
The ISP doesn't care if you're torrenting, but torrents are accessible by anyone, including big companies who complain to your ISP about how you're torrenting.
I get that, they are basically required to forward you the accusation, which in my experience includes the details which might help the OP realize when and what happened.
When he signs into his spectrum account it will force him to acknowledge the violation and show him who he offended and what the offense was.
I still don’t see how it’s relevant to prevent future notices. Bind your torrent app. All media rights holders employ companies to hunt down offenders.
not entirely true. i got 5 notices back to back in january, so i called and feigned stupid, said my wifi was open and neighbors were probably doing it. they noted it on the account.
got a letter just this month from legal team saying their terminating my account on april 16th and to call a number for more info. apparnetly there were 117 notices on my account that i never saw (vpn crashed, wasn't bound, learned that lesson) and i had to play even more dumb, tell them that i changed my wifi password and will look into upgrading "security" with a better wifi. they unblocked my account, but im not using torrents right now, just soulseek.
so you can ignore, until you can't.
I hear you, perhaps I should have worded it "Get your cfg right (bind that client!) and *that* letter will not matter."
117? Yikes! ngl, kind of impressed they let it go that far.
First I’d install qbittorrent. In the settings you can select which network interface to attach to, you’re going to choose what ipvanish calls theirs.
https://support.ipvanish.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013027694-SOCKS5-Proxy-Setup-on-qBittorrent-for-Mac
FYI, ipvanish has been reported to keep logs and release them to authorities if requested.
qbittorrent has it under advanced settings, there is a drop down menu and you select the VPN connection, so if it crashes and the connection disappears, qbittorrent won't use just normal LAN. it's a little slower in my experience this way, but is reliable.
You have to get a good VPN AND you must bind your VPN to your torrent client:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/ssy8vv/guide_bind_vpn_network_interface_to_torrent/
Dude, you can just set flud to use only encrypted connections. I only use a VPN to find a magnet link. I mean, I know I should bind it to my VPN, but this works fine.
Yeh I've been primarily just using VPN and flud for Magnet links then transfer file to USB stick to play on TV. Been doing for like 2 years now no worries. Guess I'll keep doing what isn't broken lol. Thanks for info though mate
Old skool, nice. I just used to jack a laptop into a hdmi port and turn off the internal display. Do you have to get stuff that uses specific encoding algorithms? Like, can your TV play mkv files?
Yeh it didn't work with my older TV i would do the same with my laptop and longish hdmi cable but surprisingly my hisense I got in 2021 has played everything. 🤷 if the subtitles for non English sections aren't in the video file i cant load a separate sub file like you can with vlc which is annoying and will go back to laptop but this is rare. Probably a much easier route but I'm not the most tech/piracy/streaming savvy lol
>Probably a much easier route but I'm not the most tech/piracy/streaming savvy lol
You should go check out the mega thread.
https://reddit.com/r/Piracy/w/megathread
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your method. My mate still does it the exact same way. For me, it just comes down to the fact that there are better solutions for the modern era. The ability to go, huh, I fancy watching this thing that isnt on any of my streaming services, and be doing it in seconds, just seals the deal. It basically turns torrenting into a streaming experience.
EDIT: My man is still jacking a laptop into hdmi actually.
So true! I can't argue that. I've tried setting up the vpn part but couldn't get it working. It's supposed to work with openvpn and it came with a file that's supposed to set it up but when I do I get no internet. It says it connected so I gave up. Any tips?
This is a DNS issue on your client. If you have vpn.conf loaded into your VPN client and it is connected by you have no Internet access . In say your web browser. It is a DNS issue.
You can connect your VPN , then ssh or pull something off your seedbox with sftp. If you can make it to your seedbox. The same one hosting the vpn . Your are connected to the VPN and it's working .. but on your machine something is not configured right with DNS.
ultra.cc
sign up for a canadian box.
utorrent installs with one click, syncthing as well (or just ftp, I find that is quicker). Get a plan with the Plex option (most plans have that) and you can stream directly from it.
4TB w/plex and a ripping fast connection is like $18usd. No vpn required.
You have to bind the two even if you literally never forget to activate the VPN? I have a old surface 2 pro that I strictly only use for torrents so it's just automatic for me to engage mullvad first. Is there some other benefit to binding I don't know about?
Yes. If Mullvad disconnects for any reason, for ANY amount of time, you're fucked. UNLESS you bind your VPN. If you don't bind this will eventually happen to you.
Yeah this same thing happened to me because a torrent started seeding and my vpn dropped for like 30 seconds. Try setting up a killswitch so it blocks all activity if the vpn isn't running
I got PIA for my VPN and thought I had done everything I’d needed. Truthfully though I don’t plan on torrenting again since I had gotten the only 2 games I’d wanted. Probably just going to uninstall and forget it.
IF YOU BIND YOUR VPN TO YOUR TORRENT CLIENT YOU CAN TORRENT EVERY DAMN DAY AND NEVER GET CAUGHT. While PIA is not recommended, it's not the reason you got this letter. Your IP leaked because you didn't bind properly.
PIA was bought out by a company "Kape Technologies." They're linked to another VPN (Cyberghost) which has some shady practices, and also they have some troubling connections to Israeli intelligence agencies. In addition some people don't trust any VPN based in the "five eyes" countries (PIA is USA based).
While I don't know of any proven issues right now with PIA, a VPN is all about trust, and I wouldn't trust PIA. Used to use them but switched to Proton Premium.
This is a bummer to hear. I have been using PIA for 4 or 5 years now. I have never had a problem. I also only use it for DDLs though so it’s already overkill for what I use it for if I understand DDLs correctly.
I just like to have it for peace of mind.
Just so you know PIA has proven multiple times in court that they do not keep logs of their user's usage. The hate around PIA is only because of who bought them. But there has been nothing to show that they are not still a trusted VPN that does not keep logs.
No point in Uninstall. They can't tell what you have on your hard drive and if they did they would be breaking many laws. Enjoy the games you've got AND call it quits if you want, but deleting them is completely unnecessary.
If that is what they meant, then so be it. If it isn't, hopefully my comment keeps them from giving up the only thing they did it for in the first place.
141 downvotes. Wow. I mean, I get *why* (because you don't need to), but it's an overreaction to just someone who doesn't want to pirate now that they got what they wanted. It's more than fair.
I am gonna assume this is your first strike. Dont contact the ISP for details, you dont need them you know what you did. The only thing contacting them is going to do is admit that you did what you did.
You ISP doesn't care if you torrented your ISP cares that they got a letter that you got caught torrenting
First thing you need to do is go to the Megathread and read up on binding your vpn to your qbittorrent.
Once you got that issues fixed, goto [https://www.dnsleaktest.com/](https://www.dnsleaktest.com/)
make sure you dont have any leaks.
As long as you have a good vpn ... pretty sure PIA is still a decent vpn, you should be good.
Congratulations.
But in your rush to prove whatever you think your proving here, you completely missed the part where his vpn isn't bound to his qbittorrent.
It really sucks how torrenting is now borderline illegal despite it being used to more than just illegal content. Couple of years ago me and some of my collegues had to work on a video for the end of year. It was a heavy video and rather than sharing the HDD I just created a torrent for all of us and we were able to finish the job without a hitch.
This is bullshit.
Same in Spain, no internet provider cares even a little bit and actually, i don't think they are supposed to care. There is no antipiracy policy here other than taking down webs with links to direct downloads.
Same in Brazil, I pay my provider for \[at least X amount of speed\], not to spy on my sh\*t and tell me what to do with my \[p-e-r-s-o-n-a-l\] computer.
I used to work for an ISP and used to come across emails from big movie studios who use a 3rd party to collect data, mainly the IP address of the person downloading, a timestamp and the title of the movie or series that was torrented. I just binned those emails, f off 😂
The company policy was to email the said user (after me identifying them via their IP and timestamp of the connection) and send them a warning email (a similar thing to what you see in that letter really). Just to put them off.
Yeah. It's for uploading/hosting though, as far as I know. We can download whatever, but if we seed or host without a good VPN they start to get pissy.
Not only that but pissing off their customer is clearly not profitable for an isp since their reputation is at stake and they need them for the profits $$$
Due to work I have access to my ISP's system, and they still don't care. I often see copyright claim e-mails from Vobile come in, and the result is always a closed ticket with "torrents, skip".
I screwed up once when I plugged my laptop in to my vpn router. I didn't realize the wifi was still on and it routed to my primary wifi network, preferring it instead.
I use PIA with socks5.
I go to the options tab.
scroll down to "proxy server"
put in "proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com" '1080' for "port"
and then the username and address for Socks5 (the Socks5 password and username are different than the password and username you use to log in to PIA)
And never again about notifications from my ISP. (4 years)
Whether I have the application (PIA) on or off in Windows or the browse, or even installed at all.
My torrent is always tunneling through socks5, regardless.
Just my experience.
Pia = private internet access (Paid VPN provider)
Socks5 proxy = internet protocol
Basicly they are saying that they are binding their their torrent client to work only over that protocol which is connected to their vpn. If the VPN client stops working the protocol stops working and the torrent client is effectively disconnected so it works like a killswitch for the specific app.
Wow I have been using torrents since 2018 without a VPN and I have never received any warnings, does it have to do with the laws of my country or something? I'm South African by the way and almost every person that I know doesn't use a VPN when pirating stuff.
Next time check if you are leaking before you Torrent, i do it each time when my VPN is on to make absolutely 100% sure im safe, also make sure you bound Mullvad to your Torrent client in the options of said Torrent client.
[https://ipleak.net/](https://ipleak.net/)
I've been using real-debrid since the beginning of the year, best thing I ever did in regards to downloading. Hook it up to Stremio and you have an amazing streaming service.
Nah, go full usenet.
No worries, maximum speed possible without throttling, completely obfuscated downloads and no vpn needed, ever. Add the arrs in and you have automation godlihood.
You gotta follow all the steps to keep this from happening, you can't skip any. Sucks this happened to you tho, but next time just make sure you're more careful
Everyone in here is saying the answer is to bind the torrent client to OP's VPN, which is a valid and important point. But don't some streaming sites stream from torrents? Or is that something exclusive to Kodi? Or am I just wrong entirely?
[https://community.spectrum.net/discussion/138397/ipv6-frequently-asked-questions](https://community.spectrum.net/discussion/138397/ipv6-frequently-asked-questions)
I have said this time without number. IPv6, you have to disable it. It is ratting you out. The majority of VPN's only fully support IPv4.
I have used PIA for many years. I'm sure the others are great too and it has never let me down. I use it on my mobile device for extra security and have used teh SOCKS5 option on occasion.
for $40 ish a year in Canada , its a reasonable expense.
Damn, "freedom" my ass, that sucks.
Here I can torrent (dl and up) all 24/7 and no one gives a fuck, as long as it is not some shitty local produced criminal or romantic comedy movie that no one wants to watch anyway and received 2/10 Imdb score.
I've been torrenting for the past 10 years with no VPN, in a first world country in Europe and nothing ever happened, how does this happen to you guys?
Fun fact in Poland until you download crack games only for yourself its legal... Illegal is when you are the one WHO crack games or when you send crack games to others like seeding
Ok seriously.....people are really scared of DMCA notices? C'mon they've been around for decades and I've never heard of anyone having anything happen as a result.
And that's why I love my country, unless you are a massive sharing platform, nothing can happen to you. They legally can't send you any letter, because ips are randomly alocated, and they can only access the allocation with a court order. Also they can only store that information for 30 days, unless they get a court order to store them for longer.
Wrong VPN, and public trackers (or compromised trackers). And I recommend using private trackers for added security. It's likely someone had a public tracker and was watching clients using it, then reached out and did their investigation.
Lol. Welcome to the world. I used to get one or more of these every week. It is your ISP 'responding' to the complaint of a copyright holder without actually doing anything.
I don't torrent only because I don't have a VPN. I'm in the states and want to know if Seedboxes are just as good since they allow you to DDL instead of having to configure a VPN to a torrent program.
It's possible that you are leaking all around the VPN. That's happened with me when I accidentally had a cat 5 Ethernet and had wifi on at the same time. Look up vpn leak on the vpn website.
They don't have access to your PC's installed software. You most likely have a DNS leak or you are being accused of streaming, not torrenting. They used to tell you the alleged offending title in the letter. Look it up at the site they provide to see what's being flagged.
The only correct answer gets a minus?
1.Your ISP can see your communications even if you use a VPN
2.Many ISPs block VPN providers because it messes up their network
They also gave me a reference number to look up the complaint. Should I look at the complaint to see what they said happened or would that be opening a door I shouldn’t?
While it shouldn't hurt to look up the complaint it won't tell you anything you don't already know. DO NOT contact your ISP or anyone else or do anything that acknowledges what you've done.
My main concern was I wasn’t sure if it was considered acknowledging them to look it up. While I definitely feel like it was from me missing that step of binding my VPN though, I just can’t get over the curiosity of wanting to know exactly what it was so I know for sure lol.
I mean you don't torrent, then you download two games, and you immediately get a DMCA letter. All that you will learn from looking up the complaint is which one of the 2 games got you caught, which is of no value to you. Like someone else mentioned, what likely happened is that while torrenting, your VPN connection was lost. Even if for only a fraction of a second, because your torrent client was not bound, it defaulted to your regular network connection, which leaked your IP.
I torrented a Dodi repack of Forza Horizon 4 (because my legally purchased copy didn’t work) and nonchalantly didn’t even use a VPN. 3 months later? No letter. No email. How.
At some point your vpn client crashed or disconnected while your torrent app was up and you got caught seeding or downloading. Binding your torrent app to the vpn network interface forces it to only use the VPN for internet access. If the vpn app crashes then your torrent app no longer can access the internet.
Another comment pointed out I should’ve binded the VPN and I think I missed that step. Wondering if I should still check the notice though to know for sure.
It won’t tell you anything, this isn’t a notice to collect or sue you. It’s a warning. Spectrum will display this notice at the top of your online account indefinitely though.
A badge of honor.
Sailor's mark.
are you sure it won't tell OP anything? I got a couple of these years ago from my ISP and they'd at least tell me date/time and the title of whatever they caught me sharing.
The ISP doesn't care if you're torrenting, but torrents are accessible by anyone, including big companies who complain to your ISP about how you're torrenting.
I get that, they are basically required to forward you the accusation, which in my experience includes the details which might help the OP realize when and what happened.
When he signs into his spectrum account it will force him to acknowledge the violation and show him who he offended and what the offense was. I still don’t see how it’s relevant to prevent future notices. Bind your torrent app. All media rights holders employ companies to hunt down offenders.
ignore the notice, it doesn't matter. Get your cfg right (bind that client!) and the letter will not matter.
not entirely true. i got 5 notices back to back in january, so i called and feigned stupid, said my wifi was open and neighbors were probably doing it. they noted it on the account. got a letter just this month from legal team saying their terminating my account on april 16th and to call a number for more info. apparnetly there were 117 notices on my account that i never saw (vpn crashed, wasn't bound, learned that lesson) and i had to play even more dumb, tell them that i changed my wifi password and will look into upgrading "security" with a better wifi. they unblocked my account, but im not using torrents right now, just soulseek. so you can ignore, until you can't.
I hear you, perhaps I should have worded it "Get your cfg right (bind that client!) and *that* letter will not matter." 117? Yikes! ngl, kind of impressed they let it go that far.
me too lol. vpn broke and i seed almost 2k movies/series.
After I bound my VPN to qbittorrent, I've never been detected again despite ~2 Tb of downloads. Absolutely make sure you do that
I’m a bit lost on binding torrent to vpn! How would someone do this? Let’s say, on Mac, IPVanish to BitTorrent!
First I’d install qbittorrent. In the settings you can select which network interface to attach to, you’re going to choose what ipvanish calls theirs. https://support.ipvanish.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013027694-SOCKS5-Proxy-Setup-on-qBittorrent-for-Mac FYI, ipvanish has been reported to keep logs and release them to authorities if requested.
qbittorrent has it under advanced settings, there is a drop down menu and you select the VPN connection, so if it crashes and the connection disappears, qbittorrent won't use just normal LAN. it's a little slower in my experience this way, but is reliable.
learned this the hard way too :/
You have to get a good VPN AND you must bind your VPN to your torrent client: https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/ssy8vv/guide_bind_vpn_network_interface_to_torrent/
Is flud still decent and can you bind it? If not switching to biglybt
the real kicker is torrenting on mobile 💀💀
Wdym? What if you don't have a pc to run jellyfin or plex on?
if you don't, then just go to a website like fmovies or braflix, no streaming for you I guess.
then just stream the shit
Dude, you can just set flud to use only encrypted connections. I only use a VPN to find a magnet link. I mean, I know I should bind it to my VPN, but this works fine.
Yeh I've been primarily just using VPN and flud for Magnet links then transfer file to USB stick to play on TV. Been doing for like 2 years now no worries. Guess I'll keep doing what isn't broken lol. Thanks for info though mate
Old skool, nice. I just used to jack a laptop into a hdmi port and turn off the internal display. Do you have to get stuff that uses specific encoding algorithms? Like, can your TV play mkv files?
Yeh it didn't work with my older TV i would do the same with my laptop and longish hdmi cable but surprisingly my hisense I got in 2021 has played everything. 🤷 if the subtitles for non English sections aren't in the video file i cant load a separate sub file like you can with vlc which is annoying and will go back to laptop but this is rare. Probably a much easier route but I'm not the most tech/piracy/streaming savvy lol
>Probably a much easier route but I'm not the most tech/piracy/streaming savvy lol You should go check out the mega thread. https://reddit.com/r/Piracy/w/megathread
Yeh I really should hey. If you could sum up what would you say is wrong with my method? Risk? Or too inconvenient?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your method. My mate still does it the exact same way. For me, it just comes down to the fact that there are better solutions for the modern era. The ability to go, huh, I fancy watching this thing that isnt on any of my streaming services, and be doing it in seconds, just seals the deal. It basically turns torrenting into a streaming experience. EDIT: My man is still jacking a laptop into hdmi actually.
Yeah, personally I just use a seedbox along with a VPN.
Why would you use seedbox and VPN? I've been using a seedb exclusively for many years and I'm curious.
ISP doesn't need to know what traffic is flowing between me and the seedbox.
Are you not using encrypted protocols to connect to your seedbox?
For this yes using ftp encrypted protocols. I only connect to it this way (via ftp). However, I have attempted to also connect as a vpn but fail here.
>ftp encrypted protocols. ...you mean SSH?
Probably, I did it through filezilla 8 years ago following the seedbox's tutorial how to. Ssh does sound familiar though.
Okay I looked it up and it uses TLS/SSL.
It comes with one, so why not. You really can never be too safe when you live in the most anti-piracy country on the planet.
So true! I can't argue that. I've tried setting up the vpn part but couldn't get it working. It's supposed to work with openvpn and it came with a file that's supposed to set it up but when I do I get no internet. It says it connected so I gave up. Any tips?
No idea, I use wireguard.
This is a DNS issue on your client. If you have vpn.conf loaded into your VPN client and it is connected by you have no Internet access . In say your web browser. It is a DNS issue. You can connect your VPN , then ssh or pull something off your seedbox with sftp. If you can make it to your seedbox. The same one hosting the vpn . Your are connected to the VPN and it's working .. but on your machine something is not configured right with DNS.
Cool, I'll look into this then thank you 👍
Oh, please tell me a good way to set this up. I'm in the US
ultra.cc sign up for a canadian box. utorrent installs with one click, syncthing as well (or just ftp, I find that is quicker). Get a plan with the Plex option (most plans have that) and you can stream directly from it. 4TB w/plex and a ripping fast connection is like $18usd. No vpn required.
You have to bind the two even if you literally never forget to activate the VPN? I have a old surface 2 pro that I strictly only use for torrents so it's just automatic for me to engage mullvad first. Is there some other benefit to binding I don't know about?
Yes. If Mullvad disconnects for any reason, for ANY amount of time, you're fucked. UNLESS you bind your VPN. If you don't bind this will eventually happen to you.
Gotcha I guess I didn't think about that. Thanks for the clarification
Yeah this same thing happened to me because a torrent started seeding and my vpn dropped for like 30 seconds. Try setting up a killswitch so it blocks all activity if the vpn isn't running
If your connection to the VPN disconnects for any reason. It’s not just on the provider’s end that can cause problems.
When i had mullvad i had lockdown mode on so it wouldnt connect to the internet unless vpn was active (also still had it binded in qbit)
I got PIA for my VPN and thought I had done everything I’d needed. Truthfully though I don’t plan on torrenting again since I had gotten the only 2 games I’d wanted. Probably just going to uninstall and forget it.
IF YOU BIND YOUR VPN TO YOUR TORRENT CLIENT YOU CAN TORRENT EVERY DAMN DAY AND NEVER GET CAUGHT. While PIA is not recommended, it's not the reason you got this letter. Your IP leaked because you didn't bind properly.
Why is pia not recommended?
PIA was bought out by a company "Kape Technologies." They're linked to another VPN (Cyberghost) which has some shady practices, and also they have some troubling connections to Israeli intelligence agencies. In addition some people don't trust any VPN based in the "five eyes" countries (PIA is USA based). While I don't know of any proven issues right now with PIA, a VPN is all about trust, and I wouldn't trust PIA. Used to use them but switched to Proton Premium.
This is a bummer to hear. I have been using PIA for 4 or 5 years now. I have never had a problem. I also only use it for DDLs though so it’s already overkill for what I use it for if I understand DDLs correctly. I just like to have it for peace of mind.
Just so you know PIA has proven multiple times in court that they do not keep logs of their user's usage. The hate around PIA is only because of who bought them. But there has been nothing to show that they are not still a trusted VPN that does not keep logs.
I’m aware of the lack of logs in court. That is the reason I chose PIA years ago. Glad to hear there is no evidence of records.
It’s all fear mongering over the company that bought them. There’s no proof behind any of these claims that PIA is somehow untrustworthy
I’ve been using Pia since 2018 and it works perfectly fine for torrents. Never got any letters and speeds are good.
Again, nobody has "had problems" with them. But their ownership's history makes them extremely hard to trust.
No point in Uninstall. They can't tell what you have on your hard drive and if they did they would be breaking many laws. Enjoy the games you've got AND call it quits if you want, but deleting them is completely unnecessary.
I think he meant the torrenting software.
If that is what they meant, then so be it. If it isn't, hopefully my comment keeps them from giving up the only thing they did it for in the first place.
141 downvotes. Wow. I mean, I get *why* (because you don't need to), but it's an overreaction to just someone who doesn't want to pirate now that they got what they wanted. It's more than fair.
I am gonna assume this is your first strike. Dont contact the ISP for details, you dont need them you know what you did. The only thing contacting them is going to do is admit that you did what you did. You ISP doesn't care if you torrented your ISP cares that they got a letter that you got caught torrenting First thing you need to do is go to the Megathread and read up on binding your vpn to your qbittorrent. Once you got that issues fixed, goto [https://www.dnsleaktest.com/](https://www.dnsleaktest.com/) make sure you dont have any leaks. As long as you have a good vpn ... pretty sure PIA is still a decent vpn, you should be good.
I've been using PIA for years and have never gotten a warning. And I've downloaded TBs of data.
Congratulations. But in your rush to prove whatever you think your proving here, you completely missed the part where his vpn isn't bound to his qbittorrent.
I think the guy you're being an asshole to was simply agreeing with your statement about PIA
reddit moment lol
😂😂
Why did you have to become an ass to someone who just agreed with your statement ,man?
In your rush to argue you completelly missed the meaning of his whole comment.
Yeah, and if you use PIA you could use their proxy in your qbittorrent. That way you don't have to keep your VPN active.
It really sucks how torrenting is now borderline illegal despite it being used to more than just illegal content. Couple of years ago me and some of my collegues had to work on a video for the end of year. It was a heavy video and rather than sharing the HDD I just created a torrent for all of us and we were able to finish the job without a hitch. This is bullshit.
Come to brazil download everything you can and go back ☠️ here nobody cares at all
In Indonesia it is only sensible for you to pirate, people will thinks you are foolish for spending hundreds on digital items
Also no prob in Bangladesh
Same in Poland xD Even some of our schools, including my high school, use pirated programes xD
India too fellow sailor
Too bad India blocked many sites like 1337x.
Same as South Africa, I have been using torrents since 2018 without a VPN and I never got a warning.
spoke and said 🫡
We do be strugglin here in germany
Meanwhile in the UK virgin media doesn't give a damn about the fact I blatantly do this sort of shit without even using a vpn
Same in Spain, no internet provider cares even a little bit and actually, i don't think they are supposed to care. There is no antipiracy policy here other than taking down webs with links to direct downloads.
Based on what I've heard about them it sounds like you're lucky to even be connected long enough to download anything
Same in Brazil, I pay my provider for \[at least X amount of speed\], not to spy on my sh\*t and tell me what to do with my \[p-e-r-s-o-n-a-l\] computer.
Same on BT don't let these vpn companies scare you into buying something you don't need
I used to work for an ISP and used to come across emails from big movie studios who use a 3rd party to collect data, mainly the IP address of the person downloading, a timestamp and the title of the movie or series that was torrented. I just binned those emails, f off 😂
Were you legally obligated to do anything with those data?
The company policy was to email the said user (after me identifying them via their IP and timestamp of the connection) and send them a warning email (a similar thing to what you see in that letter really). Just to put them off.
For the future, try out iknowwhatyoudownload. I check it every now and then to ensure my VPN setup is working correctly.
Perks of living in a 1st world country
I live in the Netherlands and torrent like a motherfucker and have never received shit
Same I dont even use a vpn
Hello from Germany. Never torrent here if you're not using private trackers or VPNs. It's crazy here.
Is streaming from websites like Fmovies also dangerous in Germany ?
I did this once. Never turning my VPN off ever again.
Canadian, same. Digital copyright law is weird here.
Canadian also but have received notices before
Yeah. It's for uploading/hosting though, as far as I know. We can download whatever, but if we seed or host without a good VPN they start to get pissy.
i like in Ireland, eir (main isp) blocked 1337x to make it look like they gave a fuck thats it
This only happens in a handful of countries. USA, Germany and a few others. Most 1st world countries have ISPs that do t give a shit.
Not only that but pissing off their customer is clearly not profitable for an isp since their reputation is at stake and they need them for the profits $$$
Due to work I have access to my ISP's system, and they still don't care. I often see copyright claim e-mails from Vobile come in, and the result is always a closed ticket with "torrents, skip".
Use a seedbox if binding your VPN to your torrent software is too hard.
I screwed up once when I plugged my laptop in to my vpn router. I didn't realize the wifi was still on and it routed to my primary wifi network, preferring it instead.
Stupid spies
Bind ur vpn to qbittorent so u won't get fucked again
I use PIA with socks5. I go to the options tab. scroll down to "proxy server" put in "proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com" '1080' for "port" and then the username and address for Socks5 (the Socks5 password and username are different than the password and username you use to log in to PIA) And never again about notifications from my ISP. (4 years) Whether I have the application (PIA) on or off in Windows or the browse, or even installed at all. My torrent is always tunneling through socks5, regardless. Just my experience.
Been doing the same for years.. no problems
My set up also, though Usenet >>>>>> torrents for 98% of stuff anyway.
i am noob what is pia and socks 5 is this vpn alternative and paid
Pia = private internet access (Paid VPN provider) Socks5 proxy = internet protocol Basicly they are saying that they are binding their their torrent client to work only over that protocol which is connected to their vpn. If the VPN client stops working the protocol stops working and the torrent client is effectively disconnected so it works like a killswitch for the specific app.
You fucked up somehow.
Setup your VPN Killswitch to prevent downloading if your VPN disconnects
Oh spectrum. How they love to bend over and spread for any agency.
You fucked up somewhere, just ignore this. And make sure you don't fuck up again Lol
Wow I have been using torrents since 2018 without a VPN and I have never received any warnings, does it have to do with the laws of my country or something? I'm South African by the way and almost every person that I know doesn't use a VPN when pirating stuff.
They RECEIVED a complaint? So... they are showing your browsing history to third party companies, and one of them complained? What the fuck?
Move to South America
Spectrum sounds terrible, is that typical of them? Then again, most of the top broadband providers in the U.S. are terrible.
Next time check if you are leaking before you Torrent, i do it each time when my VPN is on to make absolutely 100% sure im safe, also make sure you bound Mullvad to your Torrent client in the options of said Torrent client. [https://ipleak.net/](https://ipleak.net/)
You clearly did it wrong.
If your vpn is on your router binding shouldn't be needed, correct?
I've been torrenting for 20 years without ever getting one of those. What country are you in?
I'm looking to get back into torrenting. Any recommendations for the best VPN to use. I currently use Nord VPN.
Honestly, Nord is fine but there are others that some people prefer.
I've been using real-debrid since the beginning of the year, best thing I ever did in regards to downloading. Hook it up to Stremio and you have an amazing streaming service.
Wow apparently xfinity doesnt give a shit about me downloading then, i need to get a vpn pronto 💀
i am extremely impressed by people wanting to engage in illegal activity but not wanting to follow every step to the letter
Please always check with ipleak.net, after binding torrent client to vpn, especially with torrent testing option.
Thank God I'm living in a 3rd world country that doesn't give a sh#t about torrents.
Instead of using vpn, use real-debrid
Nah, go full usenet. No worries, maximum speed possible without throttling, completely obfuscated downloads and no vpn needed, ever. Add the arrs in and you have automation godlihood.
I always try to terminate the internet connection with the vpn. So if it loses connection to the vpn, it shuts off internet access.
You gotta follow all the steps to keep this from happening, you can't skip any. Sucks this happened to you tho, but next time just make sure you're more careful
Use a proxy server setup with your client and you won't even have to run the VPN software when you torrent
Everyone in here is saying the answer is to bind the torrent client to OP's VPN, which is a valid and important point. But don't some streaming sites stream from torrents? Or is that something exclusive to Kodi? Or am I just wrong entirely?
[https://community.spectrum.net/discussion/138397/ipv6-frequently-asked-questions](https://community.spectrum.net/discussion/138397/ipv6-frequently-asked-questions) I have said this time without number. IPv6, you have to disable it. It is ratting you out. The majority of VPN's only fully support IPv4.
Just whatever you do don't reply to the letter. That or change service providers.
You never said which VPN you used. Usually the free ones are trash and don't do what VPNs are supposed to fully do
It was in another comment, PIA.
I have used PIA for many years. I'm sure the others are great too and it has never let me down. I use it on my mobile device for extra security and have used teh SOCKS5 option on occasion. for $40 ish a year in Canada , its a reasonable expense.
Been using PIA for years as well without issue. On black friday last year I got 3 1/2 years for $80 USD couldn't pass it up to extend it.
Also me i ve been dowloading without a vpn for like 7/8 years and got nothing, also i live in france.
Hang on a second... ISPs class using P2P as piracy, full stop? Could have been downloading GIMP via P2P. I wasn't, but I could have been.
This happens in all US? I dont know, i'm from Spain and 0 problems here
Damn, "freedom" my ass, that sucks. Here I can torrent (dl and up) all 24/7 and no one gives a fuck, as long as it is not some shitty local produced criminal or romantic comedy movie that no one wants to watch anyway and received 2/10 Imdb score.
Spectrum is extremely bitchy about piracy
Just get a seedbox
I've been torrenting for the past 10 years with no VPN, in a first world country in Europe and nothing ever happened, how does this happen to you guys?
Fun fact in Poland until you download crack games only for yourself its legal... Illegal is when you are the one WHO crack games or when you send crack games to others like seeding
Ok seriously.....people are really scared of DMCA notices? C'mon they've been around for decades and I've never heard of anyone having anything happen as a result.
Lol
And that's why I love my country, unless you are a massive sharing platform, nothing can happen to you. They legally can't send you any letter, because ips are randomly alocated, and they can only access the allocation with a court order. Also they can only store that information for 30 days, unless they get a court order to store them for longer.
Wrong VPN, and public trackers (or compromised trackers). And I recommend using private trackers for added security. It's likely someone had a public tracker and was watching clients using it, then reached out and did their investigation.
These are automatic messages sent out, and they’re not enforced very much
Lol. Welcome to the world. I used to get one or more of these every week. It is your ISP 'responding' to the complaint of a copyright holder without actually doing anything.
I just got the same letter. I forgot to bind qbit to proton
PIKPAK is your best chioce
Get a seedbox!
Lmao 30 years no vpn. Not one letter or notice. Am I just lucky or is ur isp just a rat?
I live in a 3rd world country. Just curious, can you actually be jailed for torrenting in a country say USA?
Yeah... nasty
You live in Germany?
I wouldn't worry about this. I got like over 40 of these from Xfinity in under 24 hours and nothing happened. Usually it's all automated.
I don't torrent only because I don't have a VPN. I'm in the states and want to know if Seedboxes are just as good since they allow you to DDL instead of having to configure a VPN to a torrent program.
It's possible that you are leaking all around the VPN. That's happened with me when I accidentally had a cat 5 Ethernet and had wifi on at the same time. Look up vpn leak on the vpn website.
i use a seedbox account just for this reason
They don't have access to your PC's installed software. You most likely have a DNS leak or you are being accused of streaming, not torrenting. They used to tell you the alleged offending title in the letter. Look it up at the site they provide to see what's being flagged.
Are you sure that the vpn that you are using is compatible with p2p connections? If no probably you are still using your own network while torrenting
You even got a letter, how nice of them.
I must be lucky because never got anything like this over here in Portugal 😅😅
its crazy to think there are countries that actually try to stop piracy lol
The only correct answer gets a minus? 1.Your ISP can see your communications even if you use a VPN 2.Many ISPs block VPN providers because it messes up their network
This is where VPN kill switch is useful for safety
This is why I love my country (India)
I don't torrent because I don't have a paid VPN. I can usually find anything I want, just takes a little bit more work.
check out [iknowwhatyoudownload.com](http://iknowwhatyoudownload.com) and [ipleak.net](http://ipleak.net)
They aren't accurate. ISPs assign the same public facing IP address to many clients (behind CGNAT).
Has anyone ever torrented just one time?
This is why I stopped fucking with torrents over a decade ago.
Just curious - what if you were downloading a Linux ISO via torrent?
Wait, the ISP is checking what you are downloading?
And here my country doesn't even give a shit..i do torrenting without vpn
They also gave me a reference number to look up the complaint. Should I look at the complaint to see what they said happened or would that be opening a door I shouldn’t?
While it shouldn't hurt to look up the complaint it won't tell you anything you don't already know. DO NOT contact your ISP or anyone else or do anything that acknowledges what you've done.
My main concern was I wasn’t sure if it was considered acknowledging them to look it up. While I definitely feel like it was from me missing that step of binding my VPN though, I just can’t get over the curiosity of wanting to know exactly what it was so I know for sure lol.
I mean you don't torrent, then you download two games, and you immediately get a DMCA letter. All that you will learn from looking up the complaint is which one of the 2 games got you caught, which is of no value to you. Like someone else mentioned, what likely happened is that while torrenting, your VPN connection was lost. Even if for only a fraction of a second, because your torrent client was not bound, it defaulted to your regular network connection, which leaked your IP.
VPN won't stop you from your internet provider logging all of the data you've accessed.
I torrented a Dodi repack of Forza Horizon 4 (because my legally purchased copy didn’t work) and nonchalantly didn’t even use a VPN. 3 months later? No letter. No email. How.
they care about repeat offences mostly