When you torrent you essentially make your IP visible to anyone else who is downloading/seeding that content. To get around this, people get VPNs or seedboxes to hide their IP, or only download from a private tracker.
they sent a DMCA notice to my ISP who then told me to knock it off or they'll cut off my service. The game was just alright, I don't think I'll be replaying it any time soon, but I'll be keeping the file for the rest of my life out of spite.
So their software somehow detected that you were torrenting something illegal? Sounds kinda very invasive to me. I won't be running their shit anytime soon that's for sure.
no, the public nature of torrents lets anyone see who is downloading any torrent, as long as you have access to that tracker, which everyone does in the case of public trackers (you can even see this yourself with most torrent clients). they then take that list of IPs, find what ISP owns each, and tells them "at this time and date the user with this IP downloaded our content illegally, please do something about it." fortunately most ISPs don't actually give a shit since they're more interested in collecting service fees than banning users; their only obligation is to notify the customer every time this happens, and disconnect service if it happens a certain number of times.
When you torrent you essentially make your IP visible to anyone else who is downloading/seeding that content. To get around this, people get VPNs or seedboxes to hide their IP, or only download from a private tracker.
I know this, but how did Epic snitch on you?
they sent a DMCA notice to my ISP who then told me to knock it off or they'll cut off my service. The game was just alright, I don't think I'll be replaying it any time soon, but I'll be keeping the file for the rest of my life out of spite.
So their software somehow detected that you were torrenting something illegal? Sounds kinda very invasive to me. I won't be running their shit anytime soon that's for sure.
no, the public nature of torrents lets anyone see who is downloading any torrent, as long as you have access to that tracker, which everyone does in the case of public trackers (you can even see this yourself with most torrent clients). they then take that list of IPs, find what ISP owns each, and tells them "at this time and date the user with this IP downloaded our content illegally, please do something about it." fortunately most ISPs don't actually give a shit since they're more interested in collecting service fees than banning users; their only obligation is to notify the customer every time this happens, and disconnect service if it happens a certain number of times.
Good explanation, alright :cth_matt:
They might have run their own torrent like a honeypot? Idk