How can comcast see when im downloading torrents

 · Comcast subscribers risk having their Internet, TV and phone access terminated in the event the ISP receives repeat piracy accusations from copyright holders. The .  · Comcast is using an application from the broadband management company Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic. It breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Thank you very much for your solid explanations. Can you clarify if Comcast actually monitors all of their customer's Internet activities and then Comcast sends a DMCA take down to the customer or CD Projekt RED monitors the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game of the Year Edition torrent file on The Pirate Bay.

I have comcast as my internet provider. when I start a new down load on Mutorrent, it stops at connecting to peers. I talked with comcast techs and they claim that they are not stopping torrenting. If go to say starbucks, and I can down load all torrents as I want. HAS any one faced similar probl. Because the MPAA and RIAA will be scanning open P2P networks and torrent sites like The Pirate Bay (and because they have to join the download swarm to see who else is downloading), private. The direct download site is the one assuming the risk of hosting the file, the DMCA take-down notice will go to them because the file is available on their server. When you download directly, you are not making the file available to other people, and you are not exposing your IP address to anyone but the website operators.

Comcast doesn't just send out letters. They were told to contact you by the media watch groups. There are probably 50 or more 'spiders' that hunt torrent nets or webs for users. They log each IP address a user sends info to then does the same for each of those connections. As the torrent users leave the hunters can look for smaller quarry. Everything, that is the beauty of the Bit Torrent protocol, its an open protocol which helps in identying the users very easily, you can test it for your self, when downloading a torrent file, you can check the seeders, you will be able to see their IP and some other details that can be used to identify them, the same is the case with you, anyone using the protocol can see your IP, what I ment by everything is that when your IP is out, you are allowing yourself to be tracked by anyone who. Start downloading a torrent and click on the "More Info" section of your torrent client. You'll see the IP address of everyone you're downloading from and uploading to, plain as day.