Esa Tracks Torrents

Anybody heard of this? Entertainment Software Association from U.S is tracking torrent leechers and seeders and sends their ISP a letter that asks to cut the connection. Apparently sometimes it has worked. I dont really have lots of information about this, I´ve just done some googling and only source of information I´ve found is forums and comments on torrent sites.

http://suprbay.org/showthread.php?p=145429

Yup, my mate had to switch providers.

He posts here under the name Mike C.

Basically Sky sent him a letter saying they have been tracking his downloads or something and warned him against using torrents or something.

So he swithced to Virgin Media.

isnt just that company, been going on for a while now. rapidshare all day <3

So should we be afraid? take precautions? Some anonymys torrent-client-thingy? Ask /b/ersonal army to our assistance? Throw rocks through ESA´s windows?

Nothing you can do, you either get cuaght or you dont.

I've been using sky internet for about 2 years now but I've also been using peerguardian (which is awesome btw and I fully recommend) which cuts the chance greatly of connecting to any server owned by someone who might wanna piss you off.

no problems so far, although my dad got a letter from columbia pictures bout a year back via BT telling him to stop downloading shit. he switched to sky

Yeah, we got some new law here that allows the government to track everything. No privacy or anything.
Downloading has decreased by 30% and a bunch of guys have already been caught. Doesn't look too promising.

I thought the pirate bay rinsed the prosecution?

Police got a warrant to search TBP's head quarters and took everything.
Decision isn't made yet though, not until April 17th.

I just know what I've heard.

http://torrentfreak.com/police-closes-pira...igation-071210/

Never been a big torrent user myself. Could never get them to work back home and here at college they started blocking them this semester.

Pirate Bay were kicking arse and case was gunna get dropped, so Warner Brothers just bought the site.

I thought that was just an april fools joke..

hmm I remember that on the first day half of the charges were dropped and then the rest of the case was stuff like evidence based on screenshots



nah its real.

bad times.. I use isohunt anyway.

Vittu Esa

They really bought em?

Guys the dream is dead.

ESA is my late fathers name. Awesome...

If warner brothers bought it, why is it still up? They using it to catch people then?

There changing it into a legit site or something, but I dunno maybe.

Should have called him ETA.

HAW HAW HAW

you guys are joking right?

obviously WB didn't buy pirate bay, thats retarded, it was an april fools joke.

you fools.

NO, I'M BEING CEREAL!