| paulgiamatti |
09-20-2016 03:16 PM |
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Originally Posted by Casey VII
(Post 2363338)
Install peerblock and your ISP can't trace your torrenting habits for the most part.
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On the topic of interweb swashbuckling, I can pretty much guarantee you your ISP doesn't even care that you're torrenting. It's a pretty common misconception that ISPs actually pay attention to their customers' downloading habits - they don't. It would be practically impossible to based on the sheer volume of data alone.
Big companies - mostly television and film production companies like HBO and Paramount - hire experts like IP Echelon to monitor the traffic on infringing torrents, who basically just pull IP addresses out of the swarm and then send them to their respective ISPs in the form of a formal complaint on behalf of the company that hired them. Based on that information, the ISP then decides whether to take action, which usually takes the form of a typical cease and desist letter following a suspension of your service.
Think of it like three different entities: the company getting screwed over (HBO/Paramount), the middleman (IP Echelon), and the service doing the infringing (your ISP). Even if you're a repeat offender, your ISP is just going to drop you from their service after receiving too many complaints from the middleman before they start monitoring your downloading patterns to figure out if you're torrenting or not.
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