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I am in Germany and want to know what practices to use when pirating. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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So me and my brother have been torrenting some games and such and we have not gotten a letter yet. So any precautions to use

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[-] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

I have also heard uploading (seeding) is where you really get in trouble

Which is interesting since modern web standards make it possible to exchange data peer to peer in browser. Isn't PeerTube working this way? So you might not even know you are sharing. How does it work in such situation?

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[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Distribution is the key here, which they can pinpoint to your IP. They can’t come after YOU specifically (usually) but they contact your ISP

Germany:
Which in turn hands out your contact data. And Waldorf + Frommer will send you a form for a Unterlassungserklärung, which you are kindly asked to sign. Plus they will kindly ask for a few hundred euros.

Who then sends you a strongly worded letter about stopping (usually). If this happens repeatedly they will often throttle your bandwidth or even cut you off. Again, usually. This is different everywhere.

Nope. Not the ISPs job here.