Who gets arrested for downloading torrents

 · Call. Message. Profile. Posted on . Yes, it is illegal, and yes, your friends should worry. Bit Torrent servers log the IP addresses of everyone participating in that torrent. The name of the owner of that IP address can be subpoenaed and then sued. Settlements are in the $ to $ range 0 found this answer helpful.  · The increased acceptance of illegally downloading media has affected the bottom line of the movie and music industry over the past decade, and that isn't good news for torrent www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. The only people who get busted are the ones that, after finishing downloading something, they leave it in the same 'shared folder', so the file gets shared, and that's illegal. I know all this because I was told directly from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).

TorrentFreak reports that Artem Vaulin, a year-old from Ukraine who allegedly runs the site, was arrested in Poland. The U.S. government has applied for his extradition after he was located. My mom (age 81) got a cease and desist from her internet provider, who is also her cable provider, because of "illegal downloading." She called them about it, and they said it's because we were watching Game of Thrones on HBO Go and she doesn't have HBO. She explained that it was our HBO Go account, but they said it was a TOS violation and. A Murder of Crows Full Movie Torrent Download. After a lawyer gets disbarred, he goes off to write a book about his experience. He meets a man who lets him read his manuscript. The man dies and the lawyer passes the book off as his. Just when the book becomes a big success. He gets arrested for the true life murders of the five lawyers in his book.

Summary: Downloading movies and music is legal, sharing copyrighted material isn’t. Overwhelmingly unlikely to get sued or sued for anything, but this may change in the future. A Minnesota woman, one of the last people to be individually prosecuted in the US for illegal downloading and file-sharing, faces a $, bill after a federal court ruling on Tuesday. I don't think anyone got arrested yet though it is illegal to download from torrent sites as it is banned in India to stop piracy, the funniest thing is the government thinks it is blocked and no.