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

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

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

A nu cheeki breeki iv damke

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.

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