So If I illegal torrent a movie for example people can see my IP in the swarm,give it to my ISP and the ISP can cut my internet.
When I do the same thing with a proxy the proxies IP is shown in the swarm.
So why is the proxy’s internet not cut off?
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Stopping Bit Torrent piracy is incredibly difficult and counter productive.
The sources for a lot of the pirated media are in foreign countries that the US companies/Courts often don’t have jurisdiction in so taking legal action against them is extremely difficult and time consuming if not impossible.
By the time you get a court order to shutdown that internet connection the IP address for the user has already changed.
You also can’t prove that an IP address is a person, because an IP can just as easily be a wifi router, a coffee shop, a business, an internet connected Toaster, or a person.
Proxy/VPN providers like NordVPN or ExpressVPN will argue that their nodes are part of a legitimate business that provides their users security and anonymity and that it isn’t appropriate to shutdown nodes for piracy because a small percentage of their users are doing inappropriate things.
You also can’t stop BitTorrent traffic. US based ISPs like Comcast tried to throttle BitTorrent traffic on their networks to slow piracy and improve speeds for *legit* traffic but got stopped due to pressure from Companies like Blizzard that were using BitTorrent technology to deploy World of Warcraft updates.
The case against the Pirate Bay was the quintessential example. After having spent millions of dollars and years prosecuting those responsible they got mild jail sentences and the website didn’t even get shutdown… because they had sold it years earlier.
Every time you kill pirate website, 10 more pop up in their place in a matter of hours. Just like Hydra “Cut off one head, and two grow back”
The Industry has come to realize that stopping piracy is a fools errand because it costs too much and doesn’t solve the problem. Making streaming services cheap and convenient has done more to stop piracy than lawyers.
Either that or do what the music industry did and manipulate copyright laws so that you can issue copyright strikes at will to Youtubers and steal their income for legally using your song without giving them any recourse to fight back.
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