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So about a month ago I got a suspension from my ISP for torrenting a movie.  I deleted the file but today I got suspended again for the same movie but I deleted the file and never have to torrented since the last suspension.  So they told my to delete the file sharing program.  I will be deleting popcorntime { the program I got the movie from}  and utorrent.  Is there any other thing I need to delete or do not to get suspended again?? 

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I'm not fully sure about the ins and outs of that particular piece of software but if you have files downloaded through P2P software, then it will generally upload or "seed" those files to other people who are downloading . That's how the system works. If you deleted the file the only thing i can think of is that popcorn time redownloaded the file (or part of it) and was seeding that. The IP addresses of seeders are generally public so all the movie owner has to do is look at the torrent and see who is sharing it illegally.

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4 minutes ago, z123killer said:

So about a month ago I got a suspension from my ISP for torrenting a movie.  I deleted the file but today I got suspended again for the same movie but I deleted the file and never have to torrented since the last suspension.  So they told my to delete the file sharing program.  I will be deleting popcorntime { the program I got the movie from}  and utorrent.  Is there any other thing I need to delete or do not to get suspended again?? 

Uhh, don't torrent in general. 

Also, Utorrent will continue to seed files in the background even after you close it. Once you uninstall it you should be fine. 

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1 minute ago, squirrl said:

I'm not fully sure about the ins and outs of that particular piece of software but if you have files downloaded through P2P software, then it will generally upload or "seed" those files to other people who are downloading . That's how the system works. If you deleted the file the only thing i can think of is that popcorn time redownloaded the file (or part of it) and was seeding that. The IP addresses of seeders are generally public so all the movie owner has to do is look at the torrent and see who is sharing it illegally.

Yes but how do I stop the seeding,  do I delete popcorntime? 

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1 minute ago, Brink2Three said:

Uhh, don't torrent in general. 

Also, Utorrent will continue to seed files in the background even after you close it. Once you uninstall it you should be fine. 

My friend told me about the program, and I didn't know it was torrenting until I got the suspension

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2 minutes ago, z123killer said:

Yes but how do I stop the seeding,  do I delete popcorntime? 

Yeah, that will stop it. I don't think popcorntime even has anything shared legally on it anyway. Delete, or just make sure it isn't running.

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I don't think so either,  I will maybe also format the computer just to be sure. 

You shouldn't have to go to that extent. The files are shared between running instances of popcorntime, so if yours isn't running then it won't be uploading the file.

Doing a format every now and then itsn't a bad idea though so you can do that if you like ;)

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5 minutes ago, squirrl said:

You shouldn't have to go to that extent. The files are shared between running instances of popcorntime, so if yours isn't running then it won't be uploading the file.

Doing a format every now and then itsn't a bad idea though so you can do that if you like ;)

Thanks for the help. 

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19 minutes ago, z123killer said:

So about a month ago I got a suspension from my ISP for torrenting a movie.  I deleted the file but today I got suspended again for the same movie but I deleted the file and never have to torrented since the last suspension.  So they told my to delete the file sharing program.  I will be deleting popcorntime { the program I got the movie from}  and utorrent.  Is there any other thing I need to delete or do not to get suspended again?? 

Your ISP suspends you when you torrent!?!?! Holy crap dude thats harsh.. What country you live in?

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I live in the US,  and my ISP is cox

What ISP?

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5 minutes ago, thecreativename said:

OP: "and my ISP is cox"

you: "What ISP?"

 

Are you illiterate or can you just not read? (joking)

Oh, I didn't see that :L

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3 hours ago, sissj said:

Your ISP suspends you when you torrent!?!?! Holy crap dude thats harsh.. What country you live in?

I'm sure it happens in the UK too. If a large company tells the ISP to enforce rules on people who are illegally getting their products. Some ISPs throttle torrent traffic, due to the high use of torrents for illegal purposes, but torrents themselves (usually) aren't blocked, and the ISP doesn't send a warning/suspension if you're just USING torrent software.

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6 minutes ago, squirrl said:

I'm sure it happens in the UK too. If a large company tells the ISP to enforce rules on people who are illegally getting their products. Some ISPs throttle torrent traffic, due to the high use of torrents for illegal purposes, but torrents themselves (usually) aren't blocked, and the ISP doesn't send a warning/suspension if you're just USING torrent software.

My ISP Blocks some torrenting sites like kickass but its pretty useless because there are thousands more :P

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In utorrent if you do not want to seed, you go to Preferences > Queueing

 

You will see a section that says "When utorrent reaches the seeding goal"

 

Check the box and enter in the number 0

 

You can then set the minimum ratio % to 0, this will cause it to stop seeding immediately once a download is complete.

If your ISP has a massive issue with torrenting (even though it is mostly used for legal stuff (for example, the launcher for armored warfare is a torrent client, it is how they distribute their updates), then you will need to use a VPN service that supports torrenting. https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/

 

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On 12. března 2016 at 10:30 PM, z123killer said:

I live in the US,  and my ISP is cox

How do you pronouce it? Cocks?

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