When torrenting, use a trusted VPN and avoid the situation.
If Company A tells your ISP we'll call Company B, that you are downloading DMCA stuff and your Company B lets you know this. Doesn't Company A need at least a warrant for entering?
Submitted 1 week ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Patnou@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I would but none of them are free anymore.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I wouldn’t trust a free VPN. They’re still making money off of you just in ways that aren’t clear.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Paying $5 a month is better than having your internet service cancelled and this is the best case you might encounter.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That is not how internet piracy is handled.
Rightholders are so lazy they send the ISP an email that reads like my first legal letter referencing laws that don’t exist in your country expecting you to do something.
We laughed each time one came in and deleted most of them. The only ones we forwarded on to actual customers was to schools because they can use the info on the notice to plug their student security appliances.
Back to the original point, if you wanted to try something like getting a court order, you would need to show you have standing to begin the case.
False@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What? No?
It sounds like you’re talking about how the US forth amendment applies to unreasonable searches of your home. Generally courts apply a concept known as curtilage that establishes the boundary of your home that they can’t violate improperly. Having records of what was sent and received to your home doesn’t require them to violate the curtilage so the forth amendment would not apply.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Probably just autocorrect, but *fourth.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So, I know this isn’t exactly what your situation is, but, it does prove that your beginning assumptions are wrong.
The FBI and State Police send a list of all known “illegal files” to all the ISPs. The ISPs are required(? It may not be required, but it would be hard to find one that doesn’t comply) to report any instance of those files and the IP and owner of the device that received the file.
They will use THAT evidence to get a warrant to physically enter your home and remove any devices that may have been involved.
Those devices will be destroyed after they are scanned for illegal activity, even if there was NO ILLEGAL ACTIVITY FOUND ON THE DEVICE.
Be careful. Nothing you do online is protected.
Also, Fuck the police.
AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 1 week ago
I don’t see anyone entering your home in this scenario.
If you broadcast your IP address in a torrent swarm, that’s now public information. Your ISP can match that IP and timestamp to a customer. None of this information resides in your home and there’s no wiretapping or anything like that.