I am a pretty avid torrenter and such, so I know a lot about them. But do people actually get caught downloading Anime? From there ISPs and such.

Do Anime companies really care about people distributing their content? Such as though torrents? Well of course they might, why wouldn't they? They're a company aren't they? Yeah, that's true, but nowadays more and more companies and especially Music people are caring less. An example: Iron Maiden the band doesn't care anymore about people downloading their albums.

What they do now is use this website (forgot what it's called) that tracks what region downloads the most of their content through torrents, but what the band does, is they tour throughout the country instead of pursuing legal rights and such. Since they make WAY more money off of touring then CDs. CDs, are like 5-20 dollars, while their tickets range from 50-300 per. Anyway, yeah, I'm familiar with the Movie industry trying to nail people downloading their crap, while more and more of the music industry is caring less (like the above, but still they care about it), but what about Anime? I have yet heard about anyone getting caught downloading Anime. Since from what I know (but not a complete possibility that it doesn't happen) is downloading things from foreign countries, you are less likely to get caught (because you're across the world and such, to tedious to do).

But companies in your country are likely to nail you. Sadly, last week was my first notice of downloading and getting caught. Of all fucking things it was from a Porn site LOL. But of course it was a US site, so yeah, just a warning, but still. I decided that I'm not downloading porn anymore over torrents lol, but still, I'm going to still torrent (such as private trackers). Err, anyway, there was my story I guess.

To download these torrents you need BitTorrent. Ninja Scroll, God of anime! DVD(complete), FULL version of Trigun, entire series, one of the best animes. Trigun Vash the Stampede is a wanted gunslinger with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. His path of destruction reaches across the wastelands of a desert planet.

Long story sort: Anime wise, do people get caught downloading it? Do the foreign companies really care? What about the fan-sub groups?

Does it really matter? I know it's copyrighted stuff, but since most of the companies are in Japan? What about that. I ask, because of all things that you can download of copyrighted stuff on torrents, I have never heard of a case regarding Anime. Thanks for your time!

I don't think you can get caught with private trackers, or at least it's very unlikely. The way these companies find out how people are downloading their content is by checking the IP addresses connected to a torrent. But you can't even connect to a torrent from a private tracker without an account, and those sites are usually invite only or require an application. It's not worth it from a business sense for them to try going after the minority that use private trackers, so instead they go after the low-hanging fruit. Nope_ said: I don't think they can do anything about it.

Why do you think Piratebay hasn't went down? Well that site is complicated, and especially the rights with it. All the file-sharing sites that went down the past 2 years were from the US.

While the Piratebay, literally jumps countries all the time, that's practically why. That's why the.com thing changes all the time. Such as,.SX,.org,.(whatever really lol), but they have been staying at.se for a while now. Since the site isn't on US soil, they can't really do shit (since it's mostly America wanting to shut down the site, even though other countries wanted to as well). Those are the servers that jump a lot, even though mostly their home base is in Sweden. Which what makes it SO hardcore to not get the site shutdown is the fact that Sweden loves file-sharing, and just 'free' things in general. It's a calculated risk.

You either do it and get burned, or do it and stay cool. I'm sure that there are companies out there that actively pursue torrent users over content rights, but there's so many of them, that it may not actually be as big of a priority to them as many might think it is, due to the expenses they'd incur from literally trying to 'get them all.' The targets of most C&D claims and lawsuits are the distributors of the content in question.