Out of pure curiosity, Have any of you received a letter from your ISP complaining about you torrenting Japanese cartoons?
>>55254832
torrenting sucks
xdcc for life
>>55254832
>tfw brazil
>tfw ISPs literally couldn't give less of a fuck
too bad the connection speed is worse-than-australia tier.
>>55254876
Torrenting is faster then xdcc though.
I'd have to ask my neighbor
>>55254832
Never have.
I thought I would after japan started taking a proactive approach to enforcing their intellectual property in the united states, but I only watch things that have zero chance of ever being localized in the united states, such as yuru yuri.
>>55254832
No.
The US ISP providers don't seem to care. I know Viz and Funimation started a manhunt a few years ago, but it quickly dwindled and I haven't herd much from them since.
Seems you'll only get a notice for downloading porn or Hollywood made films here in the US.
Now importing Jap goods into the US is something you really have to do your research on, otherwise you risk being labeled a pedo and could possibly see yourself doing some time behind bars.
>>55254832
Japan only cares about Japanese consumers. As long as the Japanese consumer base doesn't start watching fan subs and stuff and stealing their DVD/B-Ray bucks they don't care.
Which is why they've been cracking down on some fansubbers and hosting sites. A growing number of Japanese were watching and downloading raws instead of buying the disks. The heat seems to have died down though.
>>55255098
Is that why they DDOSd nyaa and horriblesubs for 2 weeks solid back in 2014?
What's a country with fast internet and a government that doesn't care about piracy?
I'm considering moving.
>>55255141
Sweden
The American weeb market isn't as big as you would think, so they couldn't care less.
>>55255116
Nyaa still gets DDoS'd sometimes.
I do think they're behind it though. Them or the western affiliates.
>>55255023
That enforcement only seems to target streaming sites and basic file hosting sites these days.
I remember the initial panic that happened when it first happened, but things have been going very smooth since then.
The enforcement was more of a crackdown on Jap citizens than is was on foreign ones - tried to keep them from getting content for free. Afterall it's their citizens that make them the money, they don't consider anything outside of Japan profitable thus they ignore us.
>>55255164
I dont want Ahmed to rape my wife thank you
>>55255208
>they don't consider anything outside of Japan profitable thus they ignore us.
That's totally why they ignore american anime conventions and have no retail presence or localized anime sales in the US, oh wait.
>>55254832
>nope.exe
but my country couldnt care less.
What i found though is the lack of big names torrent lately and i believe its not due to companies' copyright claims
>we are talking GoT on kat.cr
>latest shit on pirate clones
>almost anything 2016 on torrentz
>>55255226
The Netherlands Or Romania
>>55255206
It's more likely that it's the western affiliates. Japan cares only about Japan. Funimation and the rest are the ones that stand to lose cash over torrents and stream sites.
I'm not dumb enough to use a piracy method that tells anyone in the entire world that connects to it that I'm using it.
>>55255141
Pretty much EU.
Especially if it's claim from American company. ISPs have no obligation to act. From what I heard, if they receive the letter, they just put it into the garbage and move on.
It's legal to download, but not to distribute.
Considering how P2P works, they still can't put you in jail because you shared 175KB of movie with them.
>>55255230
And even with all of that the western market isn't even 10% of what they make off of their local market.
Are they trying to make presence outside of their local market? Yes
Is it currently as profitable as their own market? No
>>55254889
you can watch as you download with xdcc
>>55254832
>received a letter from your ISP complaining about you torrenting
lmao land of the free
fucking cucks
>>55254832
Nope. I often seed them too.
>>55255733
Because it is sequential.
>>55255297
In Finland people have been sued for torrenting Black Sails, A Walk Among Tombstones, various porno flicks and Finnish pop albums.
No final decisions in court yet though as most seem to settle it out of court.
No one cares about Chinese cartoons though.
>>55254832
I have torrented over 7TB of anime and I've gotten zero letters.
>>55254832
Yes, they also called me a faggot and told me to grow up. Wise advice, imho.
>>55255847
It's kind of a rule of a thumb that you should NOT use Torrents/P2P for anything "LOCAL/from your own country".
>>55255847
>Black sails
They should have been sued for having such shit taste.
Nah me and my roommate got a copyright popup from comcast because of something she was watching legally on netflix.
>Get no letters as far as anime
>Get two letters for Simpsons season 7 and KotH
>>55255023
Joke's on you.
http://store.nisamerica.com/yuruyuri-season-1-premium-bonus-set
not for anime
once they said hey stop pirating "Silicon Valley" on behalf of HBO.
>>55254832
Yup, they told me to switch to chinese cartoons immediately
>>55256381
No dub?
That was surprising.
>>55256381
>PRICE AS CONFIGURED: $0.00
>STATUS: OUT OF STOCK
Well, no.
>>55256403
They're not gonna dub a show like that.
>>55254832
Only like once back in ~2010 when I torrented bleach from HS, never got any other notices afterwards.
>>55256442
Is this the start of a new era?
No more shit localizations and budget C-actor dubs?
>>55255733
you can with torrents, too.
>>55256449
That's why you use private trackers.
>>55254889
not true at all. find the right bots and you can get 50MB/s ez. i can finish downloading a series in ~3 minutes.
>>55256515
Private trackers don't make you immune, anon.
>>55256601
they kindof do...
Holy shit you people are morons.
>>55254832
When Psycho Pass 2 was airing some people got letters on behalf of Funi but that's the only time I've heard of it happening for polynesian puppetshows.
>>55254832
I have had torrents running almost constantly for literally like 10 straight years and never gotten a letter from my ISP or anyone about it. Is it just random who they send them to? Am I just lucky?
Not even once, and I have a few terabytes of shit.
Supposedly TPP will change this though.
There have been two times where my ISP actually cut off my internet for downloading two separate episodes of Bleach back in 2010. The ISP was COX so they obviously suck cock.
>>55254832
I got a letter for torrenting One meme man. Not even kidding.
>>55254832
Never. I'm using docker to run transmission + openvpn (currently trying NordVPN) in a container on my home-server. Works great for me, since i can just upload files/links from everywhere to the web-GUI and have my shit when I'm home. There are even premade containers for it, takes maybe 10 minutes to setup.
>>55256776
>tfw 10TB backed up and counting of all kinds of media, academic books, etc.
I will always have something to do.
>>55255141
Holland
Most of eastern Europe
>>55254832
I had a friend who did, funimation was the perpetrator I think
>>55256000
the things we do for shitty youtube edits
>>55255884
What's your secret?
I got one for downloading an episode of Gintama like 5 years but that's all.
>>55256631
Congrats, you're clinically retarded.
>>55257675
Living somewhere where they don't give a fuck.
>>55257751
They'll never bother the trouble of signing up for an anime tracker of all things
I got a letter for torrenting a normie movie once (Monty Python something), but never for anime (or porn or tv for that matter).
>>55255230
Japanese anime studios != localization companies
they dont pay that much for licensing Jap works, that's why they can afford to do it. Promotions like at cons are usually a mixed venture.
Most of the jap products are only here due to licensing and importers. Actual DVD/BD prices here are nothing like in Japan, $60 for a whole series is expected here, there they expect $60 for a BD with only like 2-4 episodes on it. Not only is the market not as big but individually westerners spend less even among more rampant fans.
>>55254888
BR here. 50 megabits per second. Live in a farm?
>>55254832
Never for chinky cartoons but once for the third season of Boardwalk Empire.
Good show, sad I never finished the last season.
>>55257937
Looking at Bluray prices for Dragon Ball... 15,200 Yen for 12 episodes.. thats $149 USD.. bout $12.50 per episode
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>>55254832
nope
Hell no, I even watch anime at work.
>mfw I work for an ISP
If they did, my mom's husband hasn't told me about it.
>>55257984
No, Taboão da Serra (around São Paulo). Vivo is the only option here, still living with ADSL.
>>55258399
Well meme'd, also nice dubs.
Impressive, very nice.
>>55254832
Kys degenerate weaboo fuck
>>55258609
>Kys
You might as well kill yourself right now.
>>55258609
What makes you so upset? SJW syndrome?
>being cucked by your ISP
That's not a problem in really free countries
>>55258405
Not him, but I've also got 50mbit through DSL with Vivo.
>>55258672
>That's not a problem in really free countries
It's not really free when the price is getting raped and murdered by friendly and well-meaning refugees.
>be me
>live in Belgium
>use internet of biggest ISP
>torrent like crazy
>notice I can only reach max speed by torrenting (70mbps 8.2-8.3MB/s), literally can't stream 1080p (not even on youtube)
>send email to ISP complaining about speed
>get free upgrade to 100mbps (12-12, 1MB/s)
>now I can torrent even faster
>1080p videos still don't stream flawlessly (like they should)
Why is this happening? I used to be able to watch 1080p with 30mbps. Might it be something else that's causing this?
>>55255141
Any first-world country aka West- or North-Europe.
>>55255141
In the case of Sweden you just have to stay away from the big hollywood flicks, european or american music or anything swedish and somewhat new. Even those are a pretty long shot as the IP holders have to hassle themselves through courts only to never get their lawyer money back. Bittorrent cases other than running trackers are few and far apart. IP holders have sobered up a little and made it easier to actually get things legitimately.
Germany on the other hand has an Internet Gestapo that will automatically fine you for anything you've been spotted downloading that's licensed in Germany.
>>55258783
streaming services try really hard to skimp on bandwidth, and not buffer too far ahead. I've had youtube do that. Problem is unlikely to be on your end or your ISP's end, its almost certainly to do with the place you're streaming from. Use youtube-dl.
anyway I torrented for years and then got a letter about porn. Threw it out, got a VPN, didn't get any more letters.
>>55254832
I got a warning email from AT&T for using Popcorn Time.
>>55259573
Streaming services have never restricted buffering because it doesn't change shit but it annoys the users a fuckload. Jewgle is the only company that thinks it's acceptable to do so.
>>55258783
Bittorrent is multithreaded, so it uses many parallel tcp/udp connections, while youtube cdn use only one https connection.
Isp's network equipment under high load tend to throttle fastest connections first. So multiple slower connections give you better bandwidth then one.
You might check this with
>aria2c -x N http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test > /dev/null
where N is number of threads
I live with a roommate. We torrent the shit out of everything. 550 GB's a month on average. The only letter we ever got was when my roommate downloaded a call of Duty game. That's it.
>>55255141
I've never heard of any isp in America caring about you pirating anything. It's all just a meme created by DMCA to scare people into submission
>>55258405
DOCSIS here, is ADSL better?
>>55255260
Maybe if they put actual effort into their shit tier subtitles, more people would actually pay for their shit.
>>55255847
My girlfriend's ex got smacked by a 500€ fine for downloading Walk Among the Tombstones here in Finland. He decided not to pay the bill and trash it.
Any idea what happened to the other people?
>>55254832
No. I put that down to the fact that there's nobody under 12-years old in the place.
>>55254876
Really? direct downloads through a pointlessly convoluted system is better than an infinitely scaleable torrent?
>>55261379
Enjoy your 0 seeds.
