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thanks for link, maybe i will send them my cv ๐, isp is not the one who is doing investigation, they just coop.
Do VPNs remove logs? do you have access to the log folders on the machines, or how do you know? im not gonna argue with anyone, its my personal opinion, do what ever you want to, if you think they are not loggin pls do so.
so you receveid the dmca and what happend? you had to pay? or it was just no no no and thas it? ypu had zero issues couse of you hid yourself so good or cause you are not a big fish to hunt, or to give an effort to pit you down for such a small data?
im not saying that you did bad, im just sayimg that this got multiple options how to look on the matter, even if you will not care at all and seed alot, they dont need to put you down, or vice versa, one seed with best harfening amd they will make a big problem out of it.
You know they dump logs because like I said they employ third-party contractors to come in and perform security audits that validate their privacy policy, which if you do proper research should include dumping of logs, or only minimal data retention (like how mine only required an email address) along with dumping. So you can confirm it, I guess you can still be weary of that if you'd like but it is in their best interest to make sure you are actually safe, otherwise that is a hit on their reputation.
As for what happened after receiving a DMCA, they tell you that you have so many strikes on your account and that if you violate that a certain amount of times within a time period, then they will terminate your service. The ISP is not the person who would be pursuing you, their only liability is that you don't do illegal things on their network.
But again, all these steps beyond just a VPN are to ensure there is as little identifying information as possible so they can't track you down. Unless you are a literal Scene person who is doing the actual dumping and uploading of content, no one is out here watching you unless you leave easily identifiable information public while torrenting, at least this has been my experience after torrenting probably 100s of TBs of data both via seeding and leeching.