Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

What a tricksy thieving hobbit you are! /s

You’ll be fine. Stop seeding the thing they don’t like and increase your security—VPN, seedbox, private trackers, etc. If anybody asks, you had an asshole neighbor kid who guessed your WiFi password.

Edit: just realized that you were using a server with Hetzner—Germany is one of the worst places for torrenting. Get a server in a friendlier country for that.

seed and torrent the letter

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Just do what they asked you to do. Remove the torrents, it's not like they are threatening legal action. They are actually asking pretty nicely.

In the future, use a VPN.

Given that it's Hetzner, there's not much you can do besides telling them "oops sorry didn't know this was illegal" and proceed using a VPN on your seedbox, go private tracker or just use a different hoster. Hetzner isn't a big fan of torrenting since they have the (german) feds in their neck.

Say nothing. Stop sharing or seeding. But, above all, say nothing. You’re getting phished. Just comply and stop seeding the shit. Keep quiet. If you reply you’ll just have problems that cost money.

Don't reply at all unless you talk to a lawyer. Seriously, no good can come from it. Quietly disable/delete whatever they list, and never mention it again.

Never use a service that requires you to share the files you downloaded to pirate, not without a VPN. As you've might have noticed, their complaint is for distribution, not downloading. That's where they get you.

Don't respond.

Ignore it. Anything you say will be used to build their case. I would just set up another server.

Very, very, very brave you are to torrent on Hetzner lol

There's no need to answer.

Stop whatever it was they detected. Don't do that any more.

Stop seeding the torrents they mention. Use a VPN, verify it is bound to your torrent client.

Ah yes, The company named "Company".

"Dear Sir/Madam

NUTS!

Sincerely,"

The first thing I would do is anything that doesn't involve asking for legal advice on reddit/Lemmy.

If you a concerned about this: Ask a lawyer for advice.

I think Hetzner wants you to tell them you've removed it. They did as requested and took down the VPS and disabled it. It's now in your hands.

I myself wouldn't ignore such a letter. It's now just asking you politely. If you continue they need to make the choice if it's worth pursuing you. I don't have any good insight if and under what circumstances they do. I would comply, remove said content and probably not reply to them. It's unlikely to make it better for you if you talk to people targeting you. And I wouldn't keep the logs around as they requested. Accidents happen, files get deleted, nobody is perfect.

But you obviously need to talk to Hetzner.

There was a post here not long time ago about faking your own death and starting new life in another country. Read it. Apply it.

I've found Usenet backbone+indexer to be the same price as VPN while being significantly faster to download, no seeding required.

It allows more complicated setups like radarr+sonarr which download episodes as they come out, at around your internet speed.

you could try to use i2pd or i2p for bittorrent with BiblgyBT or qbittorrent 4.6RC and above, there is a few decent public trackers on i2p.

Print it out, wipe your butt with it, scan it, send it back

It was an email or a registered letter?

If it was an email, you never received it. Probably it got rejected by the spam filter as it looked like phishing.

But imho it wasn't a good idea to use a commercial server provider with KYC policies for seeding torrents. It was better to use one of those seedboxes for this

Debrid service

This sounds like a question for an IP lawyer, not an internet forum.

I'd move hosts. Frantech will ignore dmca requests if you get a Luxembourg slot. Or move to feralhosting. They're based in the Netherlands.