Piracy

[T1g 1503]

I don't mean to 'bump' this thread, but I have a question. There is a lot of stuff online which I want to torrent, however I am worried that my ISP will catch me and then send a letter, and, even worse, possibly send the police to arrest me if I continue (I am probably going over the top, but I have a feeling it could happen.) What advice do you have, should I not download at all, or should I download with caution and not too often, or is my theory of what might happen almost completely impossible, then I can just download as much as I want?

Thanks in advance

dont torrent $1000 operating systems and things of that sort and you will be fine

i literally laughed at the bolded part

As far as anime goes, I intend to start buying dvds when i actually have a job. Even then, our club showing director has most of the dvds for what we watch, but the subs are crappy and the quality is lousy, and its inconvenient because you have to get up and change dvds after every episode, whereas with the files you can just put them all into a playlist and run that

[Aethix 129]

You always run the risk of getting caught, especially if you torrent from a high traffic area (such as a school, military base, or anywhere where the wifi is shared by lots of people). If you torrent from home you're less likely to be caught, but there's always a chance.

Wouldn't it be the other way around? If you torrent from a place where a bunch of people use the same IP address, no one ought to be able to tell that it's you specifically who's doing the torrenting.

[Chase 390]

They'll be able to tell if they're monitoring who's using the connection. My friend torrents porn movies and the school sent him a cease and desist letter or they'd kick him out. I thought it was pretty hilarious.

[Princess Valhalla Hawkwind 39]

Everyday I'm torrenting. Just don't seed when you're done and you'll probs be fine.

[Aethix 129]

Okay, yes, if you're signing in they'd be able to track you with ridiculous ease. I didn't think about that.

[Princess Valhalla Hawkwind 39]

I really love buying movies and cartoons and comics on Amazon. I love getting stuff in the mail., even if its basically mail sent to myself.

[なべ 184]

I really love pirating movies and music and video games from torrents. I love getting stuff in the mail, but I hate having to pay for it.

[T1g 1503]

I literally went onto animetake and downloaded every file they had indiscriminately

thats right, even the awful ones

[Chimetals 344]

and good ones, too, like boku no pico, right?

[T1g 1503]

naturally

every file they had indiscriminately

[Ganny 285]

Now that I have a little money, I do a lot more buying and pretty much no pirating. I have like one application I torrented a few years ago and will probably buy once I can comfortably afford it. Plus, my school cracks down on that sort of stuff; if they catch you downloading in suspicious amounts over one of their connections, they'll send you a letter or something else serious like that.

It also helps when a lot of the music you listen to is IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

basically paying for stuff isn't really too big of a deal

[Chimetals 344]

Now that I have a little money, I do a lot more buying and pretty much no pirating. I have like one application I torrented a few years ago and will probably buy once I can comfortably afford it. Plus, my school cracks down on that sort of stuff; if they catch you downloading in suspicious amounts over one of their connections, they'll send you a letter or something else serious like that.

It also helps when a lot of the music you listen to is IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

basically paying for stuff isn't really too big of a deal

1)you can limit your programs bandwidth pretty easily. im paranoid, so when i /do/ torrent something on campus, it takes forever since i choke up the download/upload rate to barely anything. my school also provides a download stat for the last 24 hours, which is only tracked by the LAN line in the room (not by person--they can tell where things are being downloaded en masse, but not by who. for all they know, your friend was over and torrenting the sun). so if im downloading from my room, i only do it while im at my computer and can check if im setting off the sensor or not. (otherwise, i turn the download off)

the sensor isnt even that sensitive here, there were some days i wasnt doing anything, and having skype up for hours tripped off the sensor. so unless youre hauling a crapton of data really fast and in high proportion, my school aint gonna get ya. and thats not counting if you just head somewhere else and use the wi-fi. the statistics dont count your wi-fi use, even though you log in. basically, were limited to a couple GB a day, but if me or t1g have to download something big, like updating steam, we can hit up wi-fi for as much as we like, and our room bandwidth wont be affected (heck, the time were out, the stats have us registered at 0)

2) i listen to a lot of japanese music, which, even if i bought the CDs, might not even be compatible with half the music-producing things i own, are $40 for two songs, and id have to wait forever for them to ship. and i have a zune, so hell if im bothering with itunes, which probably wouldnt have the songs anyway, and if they did, id have to have someone buy japanese itunes cards if the song was only available in the japanese itunes store. yeah, puppy that.