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What a tricksy thieving hobbit you are! /s
You’ll be fine. Stop seeding the thing they don’t like and increase your security—VPN, seedbox, private trackers, etc. If anybody asks, you had an asshole neighbor kid who guessed your WiFi password.
Edit: just realized that you were using a server with Hetzner—Germany is one of the worst places for torrenting. Get a server in a friendlier country for that.
There's no need to answer.
Stop whatever it was they detected. Don't do that any more.
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.
First time I got one, it was for pirating Pirates of Silicon Valley and the irony was fucking incredible
They can't tell if you still have the files or not.
I am not saying remove the files, just the torrent (as in stop seeding).
seed and torrent the letter
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.
Say nothing. Stop sharing or seeding. But, above all, say nothing. You’re getting phished. Just comply and stop seeding the shit. Keep quiet. If you reply you’ll just have problems that cost money.
This. Make the bastards chase you.
Don't reply at all unless you talk to a lawyer. Seriously, no good can come from it. Quietly disable/delete whatever they list, and never mention it again.
Use a VPN
Very, very, very brave you are to torrent on Hetzner lol
VPN is your best friend, also don't host a piracy server over a hoster within EU...
Never use a service that requires you to share the files you downloaded to pirate, not without a VPN. As you've might have noticed, their complaint is for distribution, not downloading. That's where they get you.
Don't respond.
Ignore it. Anything you say will be used to build their case. I would just set up another server.
There is no case. this is just TOS violation with a hosting company.
Not yet, but their could be in the future. Best to ignore it and move on. Even if it is extremely unlikely to be prosecuted for this stuff, it has happened, so why risk it.
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.
Stop seeding the torrents they mention. Use a VPN, verify it is bound to your torrent client.
You don't reply, just stop sharing publicly.
Ignore it and use a good VPN
Don't respond
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.
"Dear Sir/Madam
NUTS!
Sincerely,"
The first thing I would do is anything that doesn't involve asking for legal advice on reddit/Lemmy.
If you a concerned about this: Ask a lawyer for advice.
Yes because everyone has lawyers hanging around to ask things like this
Ah yes, The company named "Company".
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.
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.
I'd move hosts. Frantech will ignore dmca requests if you get a Luxembourg slot. Or move to feralhosting. They're based in the Netherlands.
you could try to use i2pd or i2p for bittorrent with BiblgyBT or qbittorrent 4.6RC and above, there is a few decent public trackers on i2p.
It was an email or a registered letter?
If it was an email, you never received it. Probably it got rejected by the spam filter as it looked like phishing.
But imho it wasn't a good idea to use a commercial server provider with KYC policies for seeding torrents. It was better to use one of those seedboxes for this
Print it out, wipe your butt with it, scan it, send it back
