If I'm torrenting something and accidentally turn off my

not really, they don't care. you're a fag.

>>327642
It's just that I'm on my second strike for pirating and if I get a third Mediacom will ban me for life and there's no other internet provider where I live.

>>327646
If you can't afford them figuring it out, don't take the chance.

That said, it's very fucking unlikely.

>>327639
iirc there are software ways to turn disable your computer's internet connection if the vpn gets disconnected so shit like this doesn't happen

or if you're really paranoid just get a seedbox

>>327646
>The only ISP in the area is willing to lose a customer for no reason

lol okay

The letters are a scaretactic forced onto the ISPs by copyright holders

>>327639
Yes absolutely. They just need a single packet to show you infringed their copyright.

>>327743
>>327959
They just use a computer. If it can download from you, they send you a letter. Computers don't care about split seconds.

>>327959
>The only ISP in the area is willing to lose a customer for no reason
Are you literally retarded? If they don't comply with the DMCA, they lose their common carrier exemption under it, and the copyright owner can just sue them for contributory copyright infringement. There's precedent: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/cox-must-pay-8m-in-fees-on-top-of-25m-jury-verdict-for-violating-dmca/ . Plus they make money on light users and lose money on heavy users, and torrenters are almost always heavy users. You would have to be an idiot to not use DMCA strikes as a pretext for firing OP as a customer.

>>327987
>implying your IP is any actual proof you did the downloading

Fuck off, Rightscorp shill.
8m is fucking NOTHING to a giant like Cox, who an employee is literally quoted in your article saying
>Fuck the DMCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnreLlWJasQ

>>327639
I've got 6 letters still not blocked and still haven't downgraded my speed

>>327990
Not the downloading. They get your torrent client to seed to them, which is, in-and-of-itself copyright infringement and evidence of copyright infringement. It's way easier than trying to argue that "herp, derp, he downloaded this from me"; you just say in court "this user sent me this, which is per-se a crime". And because you're civil, you only need to prove it beyond a balance of probabilities.

You literally fuck yourself.

Kek i torrent shit all the time and have never used a vpn. Am i just really lucky? Do ISPs actually look for this stuff?

>seeding when you have a strike already
Eh