Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by whimsicalism on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:36PM (#25211820)

> the (very) common scenario is to get a couple warnings from your ISP and if you continue torrenting copyrighted material you will be dropped as a customer and banned.

This is not "very" common - the ISPs don't really ban you, they just threaten you. I no longer do this, but I extensively torrented over multiple home ISPs and they would send me warnings but they would never actually do anything.

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by nemo on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:50PM (#25211965)

AT&T has banned a friend permanently so I would be careful about over-broad generalizations. Folks in my my household were torrenting and we got our service cut with the second offense until we went through some rigmarole promising we'd never do it again at which point they stopped. The cost to an ISP's lawyers to field these things isn't free and at least some really do respond with action.

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by whimsicalism on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:03PM (#25212138)

I'm curious if the action taken depends on broadband competition in the area - do you live in a city?

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