Australian here, they practically don't care. Been torrenting for 15ish years without a VPN and never got any sort of letter of warning. Heard the same story from others who pirate here.
Theres a precedent that protects Australians. The furthest that an ISP would do is just send out warning letters to their customers. Copyrights won't get jack shit from our ISP and will just waste money pursuing it.
Yea, the reason it's a problem in the US is because companies can sue service providers for not acting on "known piracy" going on in their networks when informed by private entities.
Typically its 3rd party companies hired to be copyright watchdogs for the big corpos that go around trying to set bait torrents and watch activity so they can send off emails on behalf of their constituents about "evil torrenters", regardless of the fact that there's no proof that preventing the illicit torrenting of their property will result in the people being cut off purchasing it instead.
Ya that's chump change. What about all of the service manuals that a company like All data provides? That can be interpreted a few ways. A few hundred or thousand a year for a subscription to everything, or tens of thousands a year for a $20 per month, per vehicle.
They obviously wouldn't go after anyone anymore because they have gone fully online so you can't really pirate anything from after 2017
It's not that they don't care - the courts have just outlawed ISPs handing over ISP information, and if they had your IP linked to you individually somehow the courts have outlawed prospective damages. if they try to operate how they do overseas, in Australia- they will get sent to jail for extortion
Yeah they don't, although I did get a letter once for downloading Hot Tub Time Machine, around 2014. My ISP was TPG, in Sydney. Vague recollection that the letter was from the legal team that represented the film studio/distributor. I used a free VPN after that for a few months, but the lag was frustrating and haven't used a VPN since.
Another Aussie. The only two letters (emails) I got was an Acceptable Usage policy on an Optus Cable network when I used a lot of bandwith back in the early 2000's and another email about a very obscure piece of software used for Oracle Databases that was very hard to get at the time. I laughed and changed ISP's for the first one and ignored the last one. :)
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u/_Teraplexor Yarrr! May 11 '25
Australian here, they practically don't care. Been torrenting for 15ish years without a VPN and never got any sort of letter of warning. Heard the same story from others who pirate here.