[hamdingers]

US colocated seedbox with ~10k film and tv torrents seeding at any given time, the last letter I got was ~2014 IIRC, before that it was several a year. I never responded to any of them.

I don't think I'm especially good at covering my tracks, so either they've abandoned individual enforcement in favor of going after distributors or they no longer bother with non-residential IPs.

[ghostly_s]

edit: curious, how were these notices served to you when you were receiving them? Were they sent to the colo who forwarded them to you?

Anecdotally it seems the only enforcement in the US these days is via ISPs who have made some agreement to "self-enforce" against their residential customers, sending emails threatening to cancel service after three strikes. They seem to only monitor for select "blockbuster" level movies. A friend got one of these as recently as two years ago from CenturyLink iirc. Meanwhile I lived in an apartment building that had a shared (commercial) connection for all the tenants and eventually stopped using a VPN at all, never heard anything.

[hamdingers]

> curious, how were these notices served to you when you were receiving them? Were they sent to the colo who forwarded them to you?

Yup, they would send their spam to `[e-mail]` regarding an IP address, my provider would look up the IP address and forward it to me.

Presumably if they ever cared to escalate they could file a lawsuit and subpoena the provider for my identity, but they never did. They're looking for easy settlements and that would cost time and money.

[sp332]

Well, they did sue Cox Communications for a billion dollars because they weren't self-policing. ISPs can lose their safe harbor status and effectively become accomplices in all the piracy of their customers.

[Sohcahtoa82]

I don't even use a seedbox and I've been torrenting for years. The last time I got a letter from my ISP was I think 2012.

I use an invite-only tracker. I wonder if that's made the difference.