Just to follow up on how people get caught, I cruised
around on Google and found an interesting article about who sees what when you
are partaking in illegal torrenting; this is what I found.
First off, the first entity that will notice what you’re
doing is your ISP (Internet Service Provider). According to this article, they
are not really interested in what exactly it is that you are downloading, “Instead,
ISPs are more concerned with how much bandwidth you're sucking up, and whether
that's slowing everyone else down.” The next step they would take is to “throttle”
your connection – in other words, slow it down. They do this by taking a look
at what kind of traffic is going through your computer, dividing it into what
is email, online gaming, video chat like Skype, browsing, etc. If they see the
use of a BitTorrent client that’s when they will slow down your connection
because they don’t want you slowing everyone else down. If they really wanted
to however, they could see everything you are downloading.
The other entities that might look at what your downloading
are the companies that produce the material you are “stealing”. Just by
clicking a few times they can see all the IP addresses that are linked to the
downloaded file and contact the ISP of those users; “Your ISP then, in turn,
will forward you a notice that you've been caught pirating media.”
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