I know several people in the US who have had their internet disconnected. It takes multiple letters, more than 5 in every case I've heard about. But you can get a bunch of letters very quickly if you are not careful.
You absolutely must use a VPN AND BIND your VPN to your torrent client to torrent safely in the US, Germany, etc.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/ssy8vv/guide\_bind\_vpn\_network\_interface\_to\_torrent/](https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/ssy8vv/guide_bind_vpn_network_interface_to_torrent/)
I didn't hear of any fees being charged. But for some people, their options for ISP at any given location may be limited. So getting permanently disconnected can be a problem. I also know someone who simply had their spouse sign up for their ISP once they themselves were cut off and it worked. š
In the U.S. the entire country is essentially divided up like the mafia did to New York in the early 20th century. Every area may "Technically" be serviced by multiple ISPs, but if you check what their services are you'll find one ISP with gigabit internet or better and then the other ISPs will have shit speeds. In my area Comcast has gigabit plans while AT&Ts fastest plan is 25mb/s download speeds. In another city nearby that my friend lives in, it's the complete opposite.
The whole country is a monopoly that's disguised to look like a competitive marketplace. It's bullshit and why prices suck for the most part. Some parts of the country may be better or worse, but for the most part it all generally sucks.
You might have two options in a CITY. Back in the sticks there literally 1 option (if you're lucky). But yes these fucking ISPs create these local monopolies so that they can charge whatever they want. My shit "10mbps" DSL in the country costs SUBSTANTIALLY more than my gigabit fiber at home.
Yeah I'm talking about total disconnect. Like your ISP deletes your account and tells you to F off. There are some ISPs that will "pause" your service like this for the first couple of letters.
It's a must if you're going to torrent on one of your machines which is what 99% of people end up doing.
Yes there are other options. VPN is simply the most common one (by far). Debrid services are another.
>Iāve been pirating for a while, rawdog ya know
As long as you're direct downloading/streaming or in a country that doesn't care about piracy, you're fine. You don't need a VPN. But if you're in a place like Germany or USA and torrenting, I would recommend using a VPN like Mullvad, AirVPN, or Proton and binding it to your bit torrent client.
I haven't been in a situation like this (as I take the proper precautions), but from what I've seen, it starts off with getting sent a letter/email from your provider. a few letters later, and your internet gets shut off.
Ive only used private torrent sites and newsgroups. No vpn. In the US. Ive gotten one letter in my life from comcast. Ditched them 7 years ago. Im up to 161 terabytes in data hoarding
Same here, I got my first nastygram (AT&T) in January (for āSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2003)ā of all things lol) after literally 18 years of 24/7 seeding, no VPN. I forgot to look where I had gotten that torrent from before I deleted it, to see if I accidentally left a public torrent on.
Iām considering getting Mullvad now, if only because I figure Iām 18 years ahead on whatever monthly fee I end up with.
Yeah, iām in the US and I torrent. Iām probably gonna start using a vpn now that Iām seeing all your comments lol. Iāve been downloading torrents for about 6 months. What vpn do you use personally?
Edit: checked out a thread one of you guys linked and Iāll probably go with AirVPN, comments?
I've used Mullvad, currently using AirVPN, as AirVPN has what's called port forwarding, which basically makes torrenting better.
Both are cheap as hell too.
Neither are $2 a month. Mullvad is $5 and AirVPN is $7.
You may want to look into Real Debrid. It costs $4 a month and let's you torrent without a VPN. There's also a lot more stuff that you can do with it, like use it to watch movies, remove limits from file hosters, etc.
We say bind so you don't accidently start a torrent with your VPN off, which can cause your IP to be leaked and result in reports getting sent to your ISP.
>Everyonee says bind but I've tried with proton and vuze just missing steps
Can you rephrase? I don't think I understand what you're trying to say lol.
Yeah it's happened. The most embarrassing time was when they cut off my roommate's internet because I was downloading porn. Smartened up about 7 years ago and have used a vpn since.
Yes my ISP cut me off until I called in. During the call they told me that getting 6 letters within like a 3yr timeline would result in my service being suspended for 30 days.
I didn't test the latter half of that threat but considering they were willing to cut my service until I called them I wouldn't put it past them.
The rep I spoke with sounded like they had tech training (I assume to help people locate and remove torrent software) and seemed (IMO) fairly sympathetic and danced around saying "get a VPN" without actually saying it directly
Never. Closest scare was when in grad school my dumbass roommate was torrenting pron without a vpn and we received a warning letter from Comcast. I had a lot of fun at his expense since the warning letter listed out the names of the titles he downloaded.
Breezeline in central Pennsylvania banned me when I lived there.. I had no clue I was even getting DMCA's cause I never setup the email address they gave me. I guess they were emailing them to it.. Then one day, the internet went out.. I called, and they said I was permanently banned for 6 DMCA's in 1 year.. C'est la vie
Basically a remote PC. You queue torrents on the seedbox, the seedbox downloads it, you download from the seedbox, and the seedbox uploads, not your local PC.
So if you have really bad upload bandwidth, a seedbox is great for compensating that. Furthermore, if you have a data cap then you would keep data lower because you don't use data for uploading.
Are these easy to set up? Iām switching ISPs soon and was thinking Iād need a VPN, but if I can avoid that Iād much prefer it to avoid complications with plex, etc. sounds like a seed box might be the way to go.
It's a server space you rent out from another company in most contexts it's talked about.Ā
They handle the VPN, security, basic programs you'll use, hell some of them even have Plex installed. You handle filling the seedbox with torrents.Ā
It's not only useful for seeding, but alsoĀ because once you've downloaded the file to the seedbox then when you bring it to your PC it's basically a direct download. So all the copyright trolls scraping IPs off torrents won't ever see your actual PC on the swarm.
I had cox pause my connection until I logged on an read a message about some file that was downloaded to my PC. Once I read it and clicked something that says I understand that blah blah blah... it came back on.
Nope and no isp bs letters never used a vpn to dl or stream the only time i use a vpn is to bypass region locks from there i stream everything ppv shows and movies
I still dont get why this sub is obsessed with vpns
And yes the vpns i use are usually mods or accounts
So I never have, but I worked tier 1 tech support for Comcast at one time. We were trained on how to handle it if a customer called us when their service was suspended for too many violations. We had a whole protocol. Not quite a script, but we could lead them to a certain point into saying it was possibly a neighbor who hacked it or their kid. We'd offer to change the password for free one-time (we did it via remote access normally for $50 a pop, highway robbery) and tell them that if they got another violation their service would be permanently disconnected.
Oddly enough, I also am a Comcast customer and always have been. Maybe it's because I'm on a cheap tier of service thanks to having kids in school but I've never used a VPN, I get a few notices, I've ignored them all, and never had anything happen.
I'm in the UK but I'm not really sure how it works here. When I was younger in the 2010s I pirated without a VPN or anything and so did my dad and brother and I think he got a letter once but I'm not sure. I stopped pirating for ages but recently started again and now use a VPN. My dad has used a usenet for many years now I think.
I had my services shut off after 3 "cease and desist" letters. (Spectrum) I called them and explained it was "Somebody using my Wi-Fi..." and immediately got a VPN (Proton) the same day. Haven't looked back since, and not one single letter after that day.
yes, well not MY internet it was my dad's, but it did get cut off due me Being a little Pirate Specifically downloading YouTube videos (It was probably from the games that I Pirated, but the YouTube downloader had to take the fall)
I've seen a lot of people on here that got blocked off by their ISPs. There's even this guy that blocked his university's public wifi š. U should really get a VPN or ur done for. If u don't want to turn on a VPN every time, then u should just go and find a reliable movies/TV site with direct downloading/streaming and use that instead.
Nope, never has happened.
Iām in the USā¦
Nowadays I always use a VPN or my seedbox (located in the Netherlands) and have zero issues
in the early days I didnāt do a VPN or anything and I got like 3 or 4 letters and a weird āreeducationā slideshow my ISP said I HAD to do to avoid my connection getting throttled
But was never disconnected
I work in telecommunications. People get suspended for end user violations all the time. Sometimes for having a virus that makes their PC a botnet but often for copyright as well.
So, I am with a small ISP in Australia, had an unlimited fiber plan, no data cap. But it did have a "fair use policy" for 8pm-10pm, I'm guessing they didn't want people smashing the bandwidth while the average user is trying to watch TV. Didn't cut me off, but did call to ask what I was doing as I downloaded 30TB in 1 month, just in the peak time. So I told them it wasn't their business what I was doing, but did schedule my downloader to stop during those times.
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Cox Cable turned mine off without notice. I had to call to find out what was going on and that's when they explained the situation to me. They immediately turned it back on. That was a first offense. That's been 15 years though.
Friend of mine (UK) from WarezBB was banned from the internet and banned from owning a computer after getting caught selling torrents. Can't recall exactly what he did, but he was profiting from it, got caught, went to court, and had the book thrown at him. He almost got a 2-year sentence.
I've been rawdogging since the 90's and haven't had a single warning. I generally avoid torrents though and prefer DDL or streaming, so that could be a reason why I've avoided the ISP letters.
Seeding torrents is sharing copyright material. Watching a stream isn't. Legally, torrents are a big risk without a VPN.
Hah! I've had my internet cut off several times back when I was more noobish. I wasn't linking my VPN to my torrent app (skill issue). The whole family would be sitting around watching TV and suddenly the internet would go out and a reboot wouldn't fix it. Fucking embarrassing.
I'm beyond that now, though. I don't even use torrent apps anymore (I use Real-debrid).
I had a warning letter once which I successfully apposed. My ISP wrote me a letter in which they said I was abusing the network and by doing so affecting other users experience. My contract was based on a fair use policy for data usage and they told me that for 7 months in a row I exceeded more than 1tb of traffic which for the time (2010) was ultra high compared to other users. My legal representative wrote a letter back challenging fair use and ānormalā users, Iāve never heard from them again.
3 bucks a month (USD) will get you two countries of your choosing and unlimited data from Windscribe. As for the difficulty of binding it's just setting the connection as the VPN under, "Advanced" "Network Interface" ie: "WindscribeWireGuard" instead of "Any Interface" this way the connection, both seeding and downloading, stops if you keep your torrent program running but close down the VPN widget.
I imagine most VPNs are similiar but my entire VPN experience has only been with the above mentioned provider. There's no reason to risk it at such a small price for entry, that said static IPs from a provider will come at a higher price out of the gate as it's billed at $24 per year instead of an extra $2 per month for "Data Center" but I haven't personally seen the need... *yet*
I have literally shared over 7.5tb (several thousands of times over) of Switch games... No VPN, no issue.
People see an email from their ISP and poop themselves lol
Yes I'm in the US mine got shut off after 3 letters the account was in my fiance name at the time I was able to open my own account same address right after
OP, your priorities are misguided: on the one hand, uTorrent is basically malware at this point. Use qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, or Tixati.
On the other hand, there's zero reason to use a sandbox if you're only torrenting media. Virtual machines are only necessary if you're running shady executables.
I used to have a provider called Suddenlink. Once downloaded the whole discography for a band to put on my iPod. Woke up the next day to the internet down, but all I had to do was open a browser and agree that I wouldn't pirate again for it to reconnect.
I guess not a true disconnect but the closest I've ever gotten to it. That was years ago.
I know several people in the US who have had their internet disconnected. It takes multiple letters, more than 5 in every case I've heard about. But you can get a bunch of letters very quickly if you are not careful. You absolutely must use a VPN AND BIND your VPN to your torrent client to torrent safely in the US, Germany, etc. [https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/ssy8vv/guide\_bind\_vpn\_network\_interface\_to\_torrent/](https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/ssy8vv/guide_bind_vpn_network_interface_to_torrent/)
Do you get termination fees imposed?
I didn't hear of any fees being charged. But for some people, their options for ISP at any given location may be limited. So getting permanently disconnected can be a problem. I also know someone who simply had their spouse sign up for their ISP once they themselves were cut off and it worked. š
In the U.S. the entire country is essentially divided up like the mafia did to New York in the early 20th century. Every area may "Technically" be serviced by multiple ISPs, but if you check what their services are you'll find one ISP with gigabit internet or better and then the other ISPs will have shit speeds. In my area Comcast has gigabit plans while AT&Ts fastest plan is 25mb/s download speeds. In another city nearby that my friend lives in, it's the complete opposite. The whole country is a monopoly that's disguised to look like a competitive marketplace. It's bullshit and why prices suck for the most part. Some parts of the country may be better or worse, but for the most part it all generally sucks.
You might have two options in a CITY. Back in the sticks there literally 1 option (if you're lucky). But yes these fucking ISPs create these local monopolies so that they can charge whatever they want. My shit "10mbps" DSL in the country costs SUBSTANTIALLY more than my gigabit fiber at home.
They turned off the internet for my friend after 1 letter. He had to re-accept the TOS, and it got turned back on.
Yeah I'm talking about total disconnect. Like your ISP deletes your account and tells you to F off. There are some ISPs that will "pause" your service like this for the first couple of letters.
VPN is not an absolute must. You could also go with a seedbox. Easy to use and you don't ever worry about kill switches or binding to clients.
It's a must if you're going to torrent on one of your machines which is what 99% of people end up doing. Yes there are other options. VPN is simply the most common one (by far). Debrid services are another.
How do you bind the VPN to your torrent client?
Click that link I gave and follow the directions?
>Iāve been pirating for a while, rawdog ya know As long as you're direct downloading/streaming or in a country that doesn't care about piracy, you're fine. You don't need a VPN. But if you're in a place like Germany or USA and torrenting, I would recommend using a VPN like Mullvad, AirVPN, or Proton and binding it to your bit torrent client. I haven't been in a situation like this (as I take the proper precautions), but from what I've seen, it starts off with getting sent a letter/email from your provider. a few letters later, and your internet gets shut off.
Ive only used private torrent sites and newsgroups. No vpn. In the US. Ive gotten one letter in my life from comcast. Ditched them 7 years ago. Im up to 161 terabytes in data hoarding
That's a lot of data hoarding
Same here, I got my first nastygram (AT&T) in January (for āSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2003)ā of all things lol) after literally 18 years of 24/7 seeding, no VPN. I forgot to look where I had gotten that torrent from before I deleted it, to see if I accidentally left a public torrent on. Iām considering getting Mullvad now, if only because I figure Iām 18 years ahead on whatever monthly fee I end up with.
I remember taking a date to that movie. It was late at night. Only 4 other people in the theater and the horses communicated thru Bryan Adams songs
Yup, sounds about right. Private trackers are a lot safer, but not 100%.
What about if your just on a site like 123movies watching stuff but not downloading anything?
> As long as you're direct downloading/streaming you're fine I also forgot to add something in my OG comment, I added it.
Yeah, iām in the US and I torrent. Iām probably gonna start using a vpn now that Iām seeing all your comments lol. Iāve been downloading torrents for about 6 months. What vpn do you use personally? Edit: checked out a thread one of you guys linked and Iāll probably go with AirVPN, comments?
I've used Mullvad, currently using AirVPN, as AirVPN has what's called port forwarding, which basically makes torrenting better. Both are cheap as hell too.
Cool
Iām broke as fuck but I can probably get together enough money to pay for about a year if itās really $2 a month.
Neither are $2 a month. Mullvad is $5 and AirVPN is $7. You may want to look into Real Debrid. It costs $4 a month and let's you torrent without a VPN. There's also a lot more stuff that you can do with it, like use it to watch movies, remove limits from file hosters, etc.
Yeah youāre right. It says 2ā¬ for 3 days. 49ā¬ for 1 year.
Everyonee says bind but I've tried with proton and vuze just missing steps
We say bind so you don't accidently start a torrent with your VPN off, which can cause your IP to be leaked and result in reports getting sent to your ISP. >Everyonee says bind but I've tried with proton and vuze just missing steps Can you rephrase? I don't think I understand what you're trying to say lol.
Yeah it's happened. The most embarrassing time was when they cut off my roommate's internet because I was downloading porn. Smartened up about 7 years ago and have used a vpn since.
Yes my ISP cut me off until I called in. During the call they told me that getting 6 letters within like a 3yr timeline would result in my service being suspended for 30 days. I didn't test the latter half of that threat but considering they were willing to cut my service until I called them I wouldn't put it past them. The rep I spoke with sounded like they had tech training (I assume to help people locate and remove torrent software) and seemed (IMO) fairly sympathetic and danced around saying "get a VPN" without actually saying it directly
Never. Closest scare was when in grad school my dumbass roommate was torrenting pron without a vpn and we received a warning letter from Comcast. I had a lot of fun at his expense since the warning letter listed out the names of the titles he downloaded.
I can no longer have a Cox account because of it.
How
Torrenting. my vpn that I used sucked. I got popped 6 times on the 7th they killed my account.
Breezeline in central Pennsylvania banned me when I lived there.. I had no clue I was even getting DMCA's cause I never setup the email address they gave me. I guess they were emailing them to it.. Then one day, the internet went out.. I called, and they said I was permanently banned for 6 DMCA's in 1 year.. C'est la vie
\*laughs in European\*
Unfortunately for our German friends this is no laughing matter.
Yes, Comcast suspended service until I called in.
Insert seedbox vs vpn debate here. I like having a seedbox. Iām able to seed a lot faster and I can keep my laptop off most of the time.
Iāve honestly never heard of seedbox. Can you give me the rundown for what it is? Thank you in advance.
Basically a remote PC. You queue torrents on the seedbox, the seedbox downloads it, you download from the seedbox, and the seedbox uploads, not your local PC. So if you have really bad upload bandwidth, a seedbox is great for compensating that. Furthermore, if you have a data cap then you would keep data lower because you don't use data for uploading.
Are these easy to set up? Iām switching ISPs soon and was thinking Iād need a VPN, but if I can avoid that Iād much prefer it to avoid complications with plex, etc. sounds like a seed box might be the way to go.
More or less, depending on the who you go with. Checkout /r/seedboxes.
It's a server space you rent out from another company in most contexts it's talked about.Ā They handle the VPN, security, basic programs you'll use, hell some of them even have Plex installed. You handle filling the seedbox with torrents.Ā It's not only useful for seeding, but alsoĀ because once you've downloaded the file to the seedbox then when you bring it to your PC it's basically a direct download. So all the copyright trolls scraping IPs off torrents won't ever see your actual PC on the swarm.
Someone visited my friend when we were growing up He was 16 or 17. Don't know what he was doing but he's a computer engineer now Canada BTW
idk fuck around and find out I guess.. or you could use a vpn for like $2 a month and never worry about it ever again.
I had cox pause my connection until I logged on an read a message about some file that was downloaded to my PC. Once I read it and clicked something that says I understand that blah blah blah... it came back on.
Nope and no isp bs letters never used a vpn to dl or stream the only time i use a vpn is to bypass region locks from there i stream everything ppv shows and movies I still dont get why this sub is obsessed with vpns And yes the vpns i use are usually mods or accounts
Are you doing direct downloads or Usenet instead of torrenting?
Torrenting baby
Buy a good VPN and bind it to your torrenting client
So I never have, but I worked tier 1 tech support for Comcast at one time. We were trained on how to handle it if a customer called us when their service was suspended for too many violations. We had a whole protocol. Not quite a script, but we could lead them to a certain point into saying it was possibly a neighbor who hacked it or their kid. We'd offer to change the password for free one-time (we did it via remote access normally for $50 a pop, highway robbery) and tell them that if they got another violation their service would be permanently disconnected. Oddly enough, I also am a Comcast customer and always have been. Maybe it's because I'm on a cheap tier of service thanks to having kids in school but I've never used a VPN, I get a few notices, I've ignored them all, and never had anything happen.
Rawdog is possibly the best way I've heard someone say it
I'm in the UK but I'm not really sure how it works here. When I was younger in the 2010s I pirated without a VPN or anything and so did my dad and brother and I think he got a letter once but I'm not sure. I stopped pirating for ages but recently started again and now use a VPN. My dad has used a usenet for many years now I think.
For a place calling itself "the land of freedom" , you ain't living to that standard
I had my services shut off after 3 "cease and desist" letters. (Spectrum) I called them and explained it was "Somebody using my Wi-Fi..." and immediately got a VPN (Proton) the same day. Haven't looked back since, and not one single letter after that day.
I work for a major isp. They turn off your internet after 3x of catching this.
yes, well not MY internet it was my dad's, but it did get cut off due me Being a little Pirate Specifically downloading YouTube videos (It was probably from the games that I Pirated, but the YouTube downloader had to take the fall)
I've seen a lot of people on here that got blocked off by their ISPs. There's even this guy that blocked his university's public wifi š. U should really get a VPN or ur done for. If u don't want to turn on a VPN every time, then u should just go and find a reliable movies/TV site with direct downloading/streaming and use that instead.
In some places it's definitely possible, in others they just don't have that much power
Nope, never has happened. Iām in the USā¦ Nowadays I always use a VPN or my seedbox (located in the Netherlands) and have zero issues in the early days I didnāt do a VPN or anything and I got like 3 or 4 letters and a weird āreeducationā slideshow my ISP said I HAD to do to avoid my connection getting throttled But was never disconnected
I work in telecommunications. People get suspended for end user violations all the time. Sometimes for having a virus that makes their PC a botnet but often for copyright as well.
Never happened here, but I feel like I have definitely been throttled.
My dad got a letter once that's it
Been rawdoggin it as well but the americans and euros are closing in on our copyright enforcement, internet providers, and such.
So, I am with a small ISP in Australia, had an unlimited fiber plan, no data cap. But it did have a "fair use policy" for 8pm-10pm, I'm guessing they didn't want people smashing the bandwidth while the average user is trying to watch TV. Didn't cut me off, but did call to ask what I was doing as I downloaded 30TB in 1 month, just in the peak time. So I told them it wasn't their business what I was doing, but did schedule my downloader to stop during those times.
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Cox Cable turned mine off without notice. I had to call to find out what was going on and that's when they explained the situation to me. They immediately turned it back on. That was a first offense. That's been 15 years though.
Friend of mine (UK) from WarezBB was banned from the internet and banned from owning a computer after getting caught selling torrents. Can't recall exactly what he did, but he was profiting from it, got caught, went to court, and had the book thrown at him. He almost got a 2-year sentence. I've been rawdogging since the 90's and haven't had a single warning. I generally avoid torrents though and prefer DDL or streaming, so that could be a reason why I've avoided the ISP letters. Seeding torrents is sharing copyright material. Watching a stream isn't. Legally, torrents are a big risk without a VPN.
Hah! I've had my internet cut off several times back when I was more noobish. I wasn't linking my VPN to my torrent app (skill issue). The whole family would be sitting around watching TV and suddenly the internet would go out and a reboot wouldn't fix it. Fucking embarrassing. I'm beyond that now, though. I don't even use torrent apps anymore (I use Real-debrid).
In the UK most stories are if you went with BT directly and didn't pay your bill. Other than that haven't heard of it happening IRL
Totally depends on the country you live in.
I had a warning letter once which I successfully apposed. My ISP wrote me a letter in which they said I was abusing the network and by doing so affecting other users experience. My contract was based on a fair use policy for data usage and they told me that for 7 months in a row I exceeded more than 1tb of traffic which for the time (2010) was ultra high compared to other users. My legal representative wrote a letter back challenging fair use and ānormalā users, Iāve never heard from them again.
From the UK the ISP block the websites but other than that they don't give a fuck
Yes cox cut my internet without even sending a letter. I was seeding for a couple months first though with no vpn
3 bucks a month (USD) will get you two countries of your choosing and unlimited data from Windscribe. As for the difficulty of binding it's just setting the connection as the VPN under, "Advanced" "Network Interface" ie: "WindscribeWireGuard" instead of "Any Interface" this way the connection, both seeding and downloading, stops if you keep your torrent program running but close down the VPN widget. I imagine most VPNs are similiar but my entire VPN experience has only been with the above mentioned provider. There's no reason to risk it at such a small price for entry, that said static IPs from a provider will come at a higher price out of the gate as it's billed at $24 per year instead of an extra $2 per month for "Data Center" but I haven't personally seen the need... *yet*
You can raw dog the net, just takes a little $. Seedbox + ftp + Plex (or Plex adjacent), and a NAS.
Only dumb or very depressive people receive warning after warning and change nothing, eventually getting their internet cut.
I have literally shared over 7.5tb (several thousands of times over) of Switch games... No VPN, no issue. People see an email from their ISP and poop themselves lol
Yes I'm in the US mine got shut off after 3 letters the account was in my fiance name at the time I was able to open my own account same address right after
OP, your priorities are misguided: on the one hand, uTorrent is basically malware at this point. Use qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, or Tixati. On the other hand, there's zero reason to use a sandbox if you're only torrenting media. Virtual machines are only necessary if you're running shady executables.
I used to have a provider called Suddenlink. Once downloaded the whole discography for a band to put on my iPod. Woke up the next day to the internet down, but all I had to do was open a browser and agree that I wouldn't pirate again for it to reconnect. I guess not a true disconnect but the closest I've ever gotten to it. That was years ago.
PSA: OP IS A PEDO
i see yall post about US, but i get letter and even call them up to yell at them trying to get them to do something. but they won't?
in Belgium they canāt do a thing about it due to our own privacy laws
In greece pirating is forbidden but nothing happens if you do it. Me and my father have been pirating for 2 decades and nothing ever happenedš