I have received a copyright infringement alert, what should I answer?

Imprint9816, 2 years ago

Stop seeding the torrents they mention. Use a VPN, verify it is bound to your torrent client.

briongloid, 2 years ago

I’ve found Usenet backbone+indexer to be the same price as VPN while being significantly faster to download, no seeding required.

It allows more complicated setups like radarr+sonarr which download episodes as they come out, at around your internet speed.

Stanley_Pain, 2 years ago

Usenet is the way

mechoman444, 2 years ago

Proton VPN stopped the stupid copy right infringement letters from my ISP. Make sure you look up servers that don’t report or respond to requests from companies that request such information from ISP’s.

I use Luxembourg. No issues for years.

MonkCanatella, 2 years ago

I’ve had a few of these. They can really get the heart racing but I was always too chicken shit to even do anything. Nothing ever came of it.

iso, 2 years ago

Given that it’s Hetzner, there’s not much you can do besides telling them “oops sorry didn’t know this was illegal” and proceed using a VPN on your seedbox, go private tracker or just use a different hoster. Hetzner isn’t a big fan of torrenting since they have the (german) feds in their neck.

lud, 2 years ago

Just do what they asked you to do. Remove the torrents, it’s not like they are threatening legal action. They are actually asking pretty nicely.

In the future, use a VPN.

sebinspace, 2 years ago

First time I got one, it was for pirating Pirates of Silicon Valley and the irony was fucking incredible

yum13241, 2 years ago

They can’t tell if you still have the files or not.

lud, 2 years ago

I am not saying remove the files, just the torrent (as in stop seeding).

Honytawk, 2 years ago

Ah yes, The company named “Company”.

nyoooom, 2 years ago

It’s just saying that the blurred company name will be called “Company” in the document, not that it’s the name.

echodot, 2 years ago

That’s just how legalese is written. It’s like variables in programming they tell you what the thing is and then they tell you what they’re going to call it for the rest of the document.

I guess it originally saved them hand writing “B&H Film, Video and Television Media Production LLC” every time. Of course these days you could just do a fine and a replace, so I’m not sure why they don’t, but it’s just become standard lawyer at this point.

Thordros, 2 years ago

You quietly comply. Then take tougher security measures to protect yourself before continuing. Do not respond under any circumstances. If you’re served with actual legal papers, retain an attorney.