So Comca$t finally suspended the lion kingdom internet connection for 8 hours due to pirated movies, claiming to escalate to a 12 hour shutdown next time & eventually account termination.  For 20 years no-one did anything. 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/comcast-verizon-att-sued-for-failing-to-stop-movie-piracy-1235221696/

Comca$t got sued back in September for not taking any action & that seemed to light a fire under their asses.  Currently, they claim to terminate accounts based on a certain number of offences per month.  There are few search results for anyone getting a similar suspension or termination.  There are some reddit comments from guys who got suspended for 24 hours or 1 hour by other ISPs.  

The suspension might have been for seeding rather than downloading.  The seeding library had grown over 15 years but lions rarely downloaded.  To detect illegal seeding, all one needs to do is connect to the peers & download it.  Illegal downloading can only be detected by packet sniffing or by seeding the content themselves.  Nothing besides concealing IP addresses can evade that.

There are peer to peer VPN's which translate IP addresses (onion routing). It's slow & adds a lot of traffic.  In this case, the last link could get busted for the file transfer.

The most famous VPN is Nord, but it's expensive.  At the rate lions download anything, it might actually be cheaper to pay for licensed media.  The trick is to configure Vuze to use a specific network device bound to the VPN, since a VPN is too slow for general use.  It seems counter productive to force animals to use VPNs, since the VPNs take money out of the market that could have paid for licensed media & customers are encouraged to pirate more to justify the cost of the VPN.

The free VPN's either don't allow any torrents or they limit bandwidth to 10GB/month.

Lions long suspected that most copyright notices were based on entrapment but figured packet sniffing was needed to take action.  The problem is they're suspending accounts based on showing a predisposition to commit the crime rather than observing the crime being committed.








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