Have you ever gotten in trouble for torrenting anime?

I'd rather stay irrelevant instead of getting a 10 gorillion shekel fine for hate speech or stealing a chinese cartoon

Worst you'll get in most western countries is a letter pleading you to stop pirating.

>small and irrelevant
>russia doesn't care and is literally the biggest country
Plenty of big countries don't care. Brazil, for instance (russia, too, obv.)

Not on qBittorrent. The STALLing keeps you safe.

they are small on the "quality of life" and "prosperity of their citizens" scales

>In France, US and Germany. Merely individual cases are pretty common, though.
In Germany some licensors/publishers make deals with law firms which monitor torrents and pick out kraut IPs. They then send you a notice of some sort and demand ~500 - 1000 euros.
It's mostly just western companies that do this but I don't know about Netflix. Couldn't find anything about it.
>someone got in trouble because of B: The Beginning
Surely there must be other anons who can confirm this if it's true, right?

Pretty retarded to call them small because of that, though, is it not? Monaco is a huge country by your logic, bigger than USA even. Single digits IQ.

this, but unironically. westerners are so deep down the SJW and anti-piracy shit because they don't have actual problems to deal with so they start creating ones artificially

It's just a kind of extortion, though.
If they would win a profitable lawsuit they'd press charges, but they know they don't, so instead they make a lawyer ask people to settle out of court.
Only the most brainlet of brainlets fall for that shit and don't drop such a letter straight into the shredder.

nobody in slavlands understands what the internet is

I don't know about monaco but i bet my ass netherlands/belgium spend more on anime and merch than brazil, mexico, india or other russia

they do, it's just that muh intellectual property rights are real fucking low on the priority list. when gubberment agencies literally crash their own servers because the skilled ITfags work in the private sector for 10 times higher salary, they really can't afford going after your average guy torrenting his music and photoshop
t. live in the balkans

only time they act is when the EU gets anal about it, so they make some token attempt to take down a torrenting site, which of course fails, and they call it a day

In countries like Chechoslovakia or Bosnia and Hercegovina,maybe.I've actually met some anime fans in Poland though,but yeah,barely anyone torrents there.

Russia and most of other slav countries have better internet speeds than Murrica.

fuck off slavs

яж ми кура, педал

>murriclap mad because his internet is shit
Tip top kek. Post your speed, faggot.

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безумный пидор, я про то что здесь державом похуй а ты уже начал твою хуйю нести блядь нормально начал кукарекать что КОКО ЙОВАНУТЫ АМЕРЕКОСЫ АБЕЖАЮЦЬ НАС СЛАВЯН

>In Germany
Does that stuff apply to Austria as well ?

A nu cheeki breeki iv damke

О как пригорело у либерашки

Small as in no actual economic power. Scandinavian countries don't care either, likely because it wouldn't make much sense form a financial standpoint. Albeit I've been told the Finns are starting to sue for copyright violation, aswell. Germany, France, UK, US, Japan, China all care. Barely anybody else does.

да иди ты нах пацреот

Torrenting is kinda big in my cunt, the best two torrent trackers I know are from Russia and 80% of stuff here used by people is pirated or cracked. No one gives a shit though, the fact that our government officials are 95% old hags and early boomers helps also. I'm seeding ~1TB of anime, ~3TB of hentai and jav and over ~2TB of rare and obscure music, not even using VPN

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U mad

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>Albeit I've been told the Finns are starting to sue for copyright violation, aswell
I haven't gotten any letters and last time i checked if you get one you can just throw it into garbage.

You can get in trouble in France, Germany and US, maybe UK, the rest of the planet doesn't really care and companies are not above the governament

I don't think UK ISPs actively monitor anime torrent sites

Torrenting for 9 years now in Germany and no problems (anime only tho)

Only the biggest of the normalfag ones.

Yeah, anime industry doesn't have a grip on the country like movies. I got a friend in erasmus in germanistan for 6 months, he got caught torrenting interstellar or some shit, received a letter and had to settle for 500€ or so

did you use a VPN for those 9 years?

No one gives a shit about you downloading anime. Even in countries where torrenting is monitored you seriously need to overdo it and get shit like Avengers on public trackers.
Even in apan they barely give a shit. Sometimes they catch a raw provider and give him a bazillion years in jail to set an exemple, but they don't catch every random dude. Look at the peers when you download raw anime, it's full of Japanese IPs.

Got pinged for a Hollywood movie years ago, so started using a VPN for mainstream movies.
But I don't use the VPN for anime, no problems for over a year

That's true. I download a lot of stuff on rutracker, mostly music. It's easily the best public tracker IMO.

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>received a letter and had to settle for 500€ or so
Curious as to how this played out, I've just ignored the letter and nothing came of it

No, I live in a shithole. Nobody cares about intellectual property here unless you're a business.
Use Tribler if you're afraid. It torrents over it's own tor network so nobody can know what you're torrenting.

Wrong. In Japan torrenting is a criminal offense that lands you in jail and is actually prosecuted by the government in theroy.

Any ex-Yugoslavian country.

True.

Don't quote me on this, but as far as I remember Austrian ISPs are not obliged to hand over the personal data to law firms when it comes to mere copyright infringement.

Seriously what the fuck is the point of copyright and intellectual property? All it does is it creates monopolies and hinders competition

>public trackers

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capitalism

I'm in Japan and I'm seeding around 6TB worth of anime.

Rip in peaces, user.

Libertarians are usually against copyright laws

Yeah the anime police showed up at my door one time. It wasn't pretty. First they made me delete all my manga. Then they made me delete all my anime. THEN THEY MADE ME DELETE ALL MY DOUJINS LIKE WHAT THE FUCK?

I'm actually scared that one day police will bang at my door.

>6TB worth of anime.
LOL the fact that you even have that much anime shows you have no life. Really the only thing worth watching is Boku no Hero and some old stuff like Bleach and Naruto.

You only get caught if you're downloading something and the owner of the IP requests a takedown at the exact same time. In most cases it's Sony. The repercussions will usually be that your ISP sends you a letter telling you to stop, or they sometimes just throttle your speed instantly. In short, if it's something big like a new Marvel film or a triple A title, use a VPN or some other protection. You won't get touched for torrenting K-On or whatever.

t. someone who has never invented anything and is too retarded to ever invent anything

(You)

What did you invent?

Communism. True capitalism is all about freedom and would never allow such restrictive laws.

What's your favorite anime or video game series?

>France
It's a three strikes before penalty system, and they only watch normalfag-tier trackers for films with french subs or dub.
t. frog who never got anything for torrenting from nya but has colleagues who got a warning for capeshit movies

I've pirated terabytes of porn, hentai, anime, vidya, and programs over the last 6 years from Comcast and they haven't batted an eye. I don't even have a VPN. I never seed though.

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All of Eastern Europe.

It's fine in Slav countries but if you go to France or Germany you need VPN or so I heard.

This site is full of slavs. There are probably quite a few of us in this very thread.

I am German and have torrented shit my entire life. The only things that are dangerous to pirate are music and sometimes movies. I haven't personally heard of anyone that got in trouble, though.

You don't need one, but it's safer. Instead of risking a 1000 Euro fine, why not just pay 50 Euros a year for a VPN? Personally, I'd feel insecure about torrenting without a VPN.

France is pretty fine for anime if you use english subs, they only watch frog trackers

>I never seed though.

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>In Germany some licensors/publishers make deals with law firms which monitor torrents and pick out kraut IPs
That shit is ridiculous. There are some law firms that subsist only on sending out warning letters in the tens or hundreds of thousands per year.

Italy

The reason you don't answer my question is because without IP/copyright laws your favorite anime would not exist and if it did it would exist in a far worse way because anyone can make their own version of it.

>Chechoslovakia
Bruh it's been 30 years, did you learn geopolitics from Gunbuster?

The WHOLE POINT is to create monopolies, remove freedom of speech and slow down competition.

Anything that's worth anything should be in public domain. Kys.

When I was in college, crunchyroll was sending out c&d letters for downloading gintama. My uni would tell me to stop downloading, I just had to reply to their email saying I've deleted the file and will stop downloading and they would reactivate my internet. Happened 3 times.

Whenever I download american shows though, I make sure to use a vpn. They're usually more anal about their copyrights. Haven't gotten caught for anime torrents since college so I don't bother with vpns for that.

There is one law company that sents out these letters, mainly for Black sails and shitty porn. Its kinda funny since they only got rights for the one with Finnish subs. It has been a quite debacle over here too with various news commenting on the progress of court cases.

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in the UK they shut down your internet for torrenting.
my student ISP did it to me.
those fuckers.

>Netflix
>dying company
Choose one.

i live in the uk, get my internet from Sky and i've been torrenting for over 10 years and i seed to a 10 ratio, i have never received any calls or letters about it

> in the UK they shut down your internet for torrenting.
they only do it when you use school/university internet for illegal activities because they don't want to be associated with that retard

>>>>>>>>>>UK
telemediaonline.co.uk/verime-becomes-first-age-verification-provider-to-pass-new-uk-standard-ahead-of-porn-ban/

Government doesn't care, had no issue so far.

>oi, do you have a loicence for that torrent client?

Like the very people that make up their county?

The only internet "crime" that can get you in trouble here is distributing CP.

Because why would I invent or create something if someone else can take it for free?
You might not need a profit motive but most people care about success.

>I never seed though

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is torrenting in Japan really that bad? I'm from Italy and will soon move to nipland, here nobody has ever been caught torrenting and nobody cares, so I don't know how I should behave.

Nope, I don't torrent because I don't want my PC riddled with viruses.

Like I said. It's a criminal offense in theory. However, very few people actually end up getting incarcerated. Still wouldn't roll the dice. I am too paranoid.

>Be me
>Torrent all the animes I want
>download has finished
>click stop

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What's the best VPN for torrenting right now?

based grandma post

>stop
>not delete

>best
Not precise enough. Entirely depends on how much you trust the provider and how much security you want.

>maybe UK
Utter bollocks, the very worst you'll get (and that's only if the IP holder actually catches you) is a letter that says
>p-please buy piracy is bad ;_;

Hell, our largest ISP literally has this on their policy page:
>We won’t slow down peer to peer file-sharing either, so share away.

Has anyone actually tried Mullvad yet?

Italian?

What's the best vpn for torrenting? Which is the one that you use?

Just use a VPN

I use Perfect Privacy because they use RAM disks and couldn't hand over your information even if they wanted to. In the past they even allowed you to register using a throwaway email and pay with cash. Which is probably why its IP are banned on Yea Forums for CP. The high level of privacy attracts the worst scum in existence.

>without copyright protection there wouldn't be any incentive to create
Completely wrong. To give an example there are youtube e-celebs that make videos just talking about random stuff and yet they earn enough from donations to not have to work a normal job. These guys aren't creating art, they are just spewing nonsense yet people are willing to give them money for just sitting in front of a camera while talking. The fallacy that you make is that you assume that once copyright protection goes away suddenly every single person on earth decides to not support creators in any way whatsoever. Piracy is rampant in countries like Russia and Brazil yet these countries still have local singers, filmmakers and other artists.

>Netflix

>suddenly every single person on earth decides to not support creators in any way whatsoever
t. double digit IQ spic who doesn't understand the actual problem
>Piracy is rampant in countries like Russia and Brazil yet these countries still have local singers, filmmakers and other artists
t. single digit IQ spic who doesn't understand a normalfag's inhibition threshold

Are you retarded?

>I never seed though
nigga...

where can i torrent kiniro mosaic season 2...?

>Really the only thing worth watching is Boku no Hero and some old stuff like Bleach and Naruto.
You need to learn how to troll.

>what's Netflix's stance on this
who even cares about shitflix, the only netflix anime exclusive worth watching is Kakegurui anyway. The rest is either a sjw crap or western pandering shit.

weaksauce

not for anime no. i've got warnings from family members torrenting movies but nothing ever came from it and i've torrent pretty much nonstop for over a decade

maplememeland only cares about torrenting muh HBO

I got sent a letter for torrenting the Tales of the Abyss anime as a burger this year. So I use VPN now.

what ISP, I haven't issues (yet) with verizon, don't want to fucked

Yes

Thank

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My country had no law specifically addressing piracy, when they tried to ban it the public outrage was so big that the goverment was forced to give up on the law, so it's still a grayzone, but I haven't heard of anyone getting in trouble.

Yes, they substitute it with a system of private, corporation sponsored courts which would surely be fair and impartial.

Nope. One of the perks of living in a 3rd world shithole, you can get away with doing shit like this cause the gov doesn't have the time and money to deal with it. I have heard of people living in the US and getting a notice because of torrenting. Just use a VPN and you should be fine.

Yes, this is correct. I would personally recommend our VPN service at trusty_vpn.fbi.gov. It is very good and for free!

Why would I waste my time seeding?

I use to torrent anime but then my autism acted up and now I stream them

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Seriously? Which company in the US cares about anime torrenting. Must be because it's a crunchyoll anime

>what's Netflix's stance on this
What the fuck does netflix have to do with anything? They don't make anime.

>tfw too autistic to learn how to torrent
t. Streamfag :(

At&t
I think it was because Bandai Namco has a US branch. I believed the whole "no one cares about torrenting anime" thing and was fine for years, but evidently some titles are risky.

I didn't say I didn't know how to torrent, it's that I get worried about torrenting and getting "that e-mail"
I wish there was a site that had all the titles that are risky for torrenting, I recently torrented one episode of Welcome to the NHK for fansub comparison and now i'm worried about getting a letter

>At&t
thanks, I'll take my chances without a vpn for now

They're 12 billion in debt, stop throwing money in a black hole retard

What about their Anime Originals? They don't animate them but it's still different from your average HS release, right?

Are you too poor for VPN?

I received something like that a few years ago, but only recently started using a VPN because of how cheap you can get keys to good VPNs nowadays

Actually, yes I am. But I never torrented anime that much since I stopped watching around 2014, so streaming became the alternative. Plus my computer isn't that good for Terabytes of anime

>something like that
What was it exactly? What country?

It was a letter from comcast for a first strike thing. I don't remember which anime though
I checked the comments on the shit I downloaded at that time and the comments were filled with people with similar situations

What the hell would the fuzz even do if you did get caught? I wouldn't imagine they'd fine you $1000 for downloading the latest episode of CGDCT #574.
Anyhow, I've been using surface-level clients like BitTorrent without a VPN for quite a while and haven't gotten in any trouble for it.

Never got any ISP letters for anime, for the past few years I've had a VPN anyways

My new apartment has At&t as the only option. My old place in Austin used Suddenlink which basically has a monopoly on all the lines in Texas so I'm surprised this place is At&t. Suddenlink never cared about my torrenting but if At&t does, I may need to get a VPN.
Thanks for the heads up user.

No? They're just a distributor.

Go away shill, VPNs wordk fine as long as you know which ones are good. If you're still paranoid then a VPS could do you wonders!

>5€/month
What do if I only have burger bucks and don't want to use crypto?

Alright maybe it's was just a coincidence then. Still won't trust n*tflix though.

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Set up your own VPS, will probably be cheaper too.

Fansubs are the way to go imo. But I never understood how ISP get the exact shows their looking for

As far as I know ISPs don't even look, they just act if notified.

torrentfreak.com/downloading-any-pirate-content-to-be-made-illegal-in-japan-190214/>torrent in japan
>get 2 years jail
Imagine being nip.

What a dystopia.

Companies that own the things you download would have to.
1. Get a warrant to go into your house and confiscate every computer and hard drive
2. Look through every computer and even get the deleted data off it
3. Take you to small peoples/claims court
4. Prove YOU were the one who downloaded it and not someone else
5. Have the judge fine you $50 for the price of the BD
No matter what they will never break even so they usually just sent out "quick settlement" letters hoping someone gets spooked enough to pay.

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Is this gonna save the anime industry

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>Have you ever gotten in trouble for torrenting anime?
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA WHAT THE FUCK
AHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
oh wait I meant to say
AHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

I actually don't have a single licenced program or game on my computer and you're asking me if I can download chinese cartoons freely?
Eat shit, slave, pay to your gov)))

I use AB and BTN so I don't give a fuck. I feel bad for you if you're not on private trackers.

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I've been torrenting games, movies, anime, various software like photoshop and ArchiCAD and even operating systems for a over a decade. I've never used a VPN for anything other than botting Neopets on multiple accounts.

>пук пук пук кудах тах тах

>Torrent multiple gigs of animu
>Turn my monitor around so the FBI can't see who I am
You guys need to up your game.

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And it's dirt cheap too.
I'm actually laffing at the level of cope eurocucks and amerifats display itt to self-persuade themselves that paying for air and supporting censorship, global monopolies and """intellectual property rights""" is somehow a good thing.

Also this thread belongs to /int/

Nah anime is too niche for that.

Teh fIrsT Welder:
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Teh 3ird WelDer:
>YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH

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i downloaded popcorn time and got a letter from my ips for watching a show or a movie, i don’t remember. i also got another letter when i torrented a cartoon and seeded. popcorn time also seeds as you watch the show. never a letter for anime
now i never seed anything.

Which country?

Poortugal.

>ips
isp

>I used my closely-monitored campus internet provider for doing something they most likely warned me not to do in their T&Cs
>those fuckers

Piss off Tarquin.

dude, litereally everybody I know watching anime, torrents it in Polando. And there is quite big anime fanbase (smaller than spain of france, but it's a thing no longer cringy to talk about)

how can someone put me in jail for getting something for free that I can literally not buy anywhere?

Don't they have shooters and shit?

Imagine actually paying for anything besides alcohol. Firsties sure are weird.

Nice falseflag, enjoy feeding your $$$ to corporate monopolies.

>I never seed though.
based

just use xdcc for everything, better speeds and safer.

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I live literally in a middle of nowhere Irish suburb.
Anything I actually want to watch that isn't completely bottom of the barrel I have to download it because its not available here or in the case of films, never shown here.

Their Japanese server is absolute dogshit.

Ive downloaded terabytes of music, anime and games over the years and not once has my ISP called me on it. Im from the USA, live in NC and have never gotten so much as a look. A few years back, Time Warner tried to run with some kind of IP regulation 3 strike deal or something, but they got so much blowback from customers that they backed off. Hell I dont know anyone thats gotten in trouble and they pirate about as much as I do.

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10 IQ take over here

I torrent javs/hentai all the time, haven't gotten a notice yet

I've heard the way some VPNs work it masks what you're specifically getting, but not the fact that you ARE torrenting period, so ISPs still get pissy. Is this really the case?

>At&t
I had them for a while but dropped them when they introduced a cap in my area. They never got at me for torrenting.

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No. There's plenty of torrenting there. But it's 70% porn.
Just use Tribler.

I didn't know you could get warnings for downloading anime. I've never been hit with it. I have been hit for downloading a game last year though.

>living in a shithole where you get in jail for downloading anime
land of the free kek

You ever notice how there's literally nothing people actually want to watch on that platform?

Nah. I live in the US and torrent off Nyaa all the time, never gotten a letter. Games and movies are a different story though.

I live in Germany so I use an IRC client, it's faster than torrents for me aswell

No because torrenting is way more trouble than it's worth.

I've never had an issue, but most of the time I use IRC to download my animu. I only torrent if I can't find it there

retard and newfag

Ive been seeding hundreds of anime for years and never got so much as a warning
t AZ, USA Cox ISP

America is a third world country for a while

Mountain jew swissfag here, you're free to download but you "should" not upload or sharing in theory, truth is the politicians don't really give a shit.

baziran i 4ervenohap4en

I guess you're living in another universe where NFLX shares fall and people still watch anime on CRTs on cable.

I’ve never used a VPN and torrent anime every day. USA. Also torrent movies. Never gotten a letter once.

Holy bandwidth

Can't complain when you can just watch it on TV for free anyway

No they don't kek go away you third worlder kek

Fuck off larping yank, no Irish person says 'suburb'

most of the middle east so long as you're not downloading porn

Just torrenting isn't illegal. Downloading copyrighted content is.

The more weeb-y US campuses used to have DC++ hubs to slip under that radar, but they seem to have mostly died in the last few years.

is torrenting off verizon ok without vpn

I recently got fucked by some agency in Germany for grabbing John Wick 2 off an open tracker. Cost 480 bucks so far.

All of South America.

>Cost 480 bucks so far.
lol. Shit sucks man.

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Torrenting is for idiots.

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now that image is a classic

reminds me but fun revenge is going to the buddy's house and downloading something that will get a dmca notice (hbo shows usually).

I cry everytim

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You got essentially scammed, except that the state is fine with this kind of racketeering.

I don't even get in trouble for torrenting. Use a blocklist and prefer encryption.

Can you recommend me a vpn that works for Yea Forums? I hate having to turn it off to post.