Thread: torrents being watched

I was looking up some torrent sites(isohunt) and found many of the newly created torrents are being reported as being WATCHED. The downloaders say they are receiving legal calls over Copyright infringement.

I know these may be arising only in the US or may just be a false alarm, but being just an average-internet-know-how user I need to know whether there is anything to worry about sitting in India and if there is any way of protecting from being tracked by these agencies. pl tell

I guess it's just a rumour. Else, it would have been in news.

nothing like that. they wont contact you. they will contact Admin of website and 1st will try to shut down the site.


i will take ages to track every single user lolaaa

Yes, Mininova is already limited to publish torrents of the materials which don't have a copyright. Damn these courts.

Originally Posted by itsmemad

Yes, Mininova is already limited to publish torrents of the materials which don't have a copyright. Damn these courts.

damn it!
its not good news

Mininova has taken down tarckers quite a while ago. I myself came to know of this just a week ago. But I am not a regular downloader. I am surprised that the large torrent community in this forum here made no posts to this effect.

so is it the title of the thread true??????

are they calling?????

Originally Posted by imrock

so is it the title of the thread true??????

are they calling?????

no yaar ..............

Originally Posted by talktoanil

no yaar ..............

good for me......and all

use httpS for the pirate bay :P

Originally Posted by mecyanide

use httpS for the pirate bay :P

why????

this is used when shopping online...
this is a phrase of safety.this s ensures that ur credit card is safe while shopping from that site.

I don't think it is possible to identify all those users in a peer to peer sharing networks. Most of the copyright companies target users who share quite massive amount of copyright files with other users. Recently there was a women in US indicted for copyright infringement if I am correct.

in the US, they do generally track your online activity i think...well thats what my friends there say..

Originally Posted by rajan1311

in the US, they do generally track your online activity i think...well thats what my friends there say..

The ISP's do that, I believe. But whether this is a rumour or truth, no one was able to verify as people are afraid to download from torrents.

there are agencies which track IP addresses

Originally Posted by gallardo2450

there are agencies which track IP addresses

how many will they????

there are thousands of users who download torrents illegally.
can they track them all???certainly no!

Originally Posted by imrock

how many will they????

there are thousands of users who download torrents illegally.
can they track them all???certainly no!

Yes. Indeed they can. They can track down the ISP and send notices to the ISP's. ISP's have a record of who is downloading what and which IP was assigned.

Originally Posted by just4kix

Yes. Indeed they can. They can track down the ISP and send notices to the ISP's. ISP's have a record of who is downloading what and which IP was assigned.

but i am sure they will not.

i downloaded some torrents and no calls yet.
but why is mininova become less in torrents?????????????
i mean some are not there.

In India (and China), ISP's are not tracking torrents.

Mininova was served a notice and agreed to remove all trackers of copyrighted material. I am in full support of the move. But there will be others who will "rise" to the occasion and of course there are private trackers too.

Originally Posted by imrock

but i am sure they will not.

i downloaded some torrents and no calls yet.
but why is mininova become less in torrents?????????????
i mean some are not there.

Mininova lost a case and deleted all pirated content.

I am sorry but they are being monitored

Originally Posted by gallardo2450

I am sorry but they are being monitored

Yes they are being watched but majority on this forum lives in India where even Muderers go scot free.... talk about illegal torrent downloading?? every single subscriber in this country who has one of them night unlimited plans from any of the isps downloads using torrents and a huge percentage I would say more then 90% download movies and porn... go get them

More then 80% of Indian broadband users will be behind the bars or be paying fines if there were any monotering going on by Indian agencies and Americans dont rule this country hence cant do anything to some one sitting in India.


We live in a country where most illegal acts are done taking a bribes less then Rs500.... Majority of us use pirated operating systems and buy pirated music and movie dvds... do we not?


India doesn't even have good policing in place leave alone policing the cyber space

Bollywood producers have not come together to bring down sites hosting bollywood movie trackers and thats the reason sites like desitorrents have been running without a hitch all these years

Very true.But I read this article in a newspaper,monitoring agencies are watching,but I agree with you.
Users time their machines for downloading etc...
if I tell any of my friends piracy is bad,they say who is going to catch me.Everybody is downloading,who will catch them ??

I know things are not how they are supposed to be here in India.I think it will take ages for rules to come into place with everyone co-operating to abide by it.

There are also the different views people have but,I think there will be a lot of freedom for internet users in India,until a law comes in to force which may be of help to prevent privacy,but to the others users free downloads will not be available,which may bring forth another kind of situation.

Don't forget the highest torrent downloads happen in the US, UK and the west in general, as per reports. Did you not see the country IPs when you torrent something?

Use DTH ie magnet link or a private tracker

do not use opentracker

if u r in india chill.....