Torrenting in Poland

Hello, i wanted to know to what extent do the ISPs or police pursue torrenting. In the 90's it was acceptable and fairly wide-spread. I am unsure how it looks now.

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Always use a VPN. With torrents you actively share the file which is illegal pretty much anywhere.
Even if no one cares today, someone might tomorrow.
- yeah, i will probably get Mullvad.
  
  It doesn't support port forwarding, it's not the best VPN for torrenting, your downloading will be limited.
  I personally use ProtonVPN which does have port forwarding.
- VPNs are a barrier for torrenting. Some people don't want to pay (or can't even pay), and other people may find setting a VPN up difficult. This is not good advice.
  Force encryption for bittorrent and you're already future proof.
  
  wat, there is no encryption in bittorrent that will protect you except for a vpn.
  no one follow this individuals advice for your own sake.
  
  Encryption won't do anything is your real IP address is exposed. A VPN covers that. Most ISPs don't care, they just have to forward those nasty letters and may shut off your internet if pressured. Rightsholders will attach to the swarm, note all the connected IPs, and then go after the ISPs to get to the users. You have to obfuscate your personal IP somehow.
  And sure I can see paying being an issue for some, but there really isn't much other way. As for use, they're no harder to set up that a torrent client.
  
  VPNs are a barrier, true. But prison bars or having to pay millions to huge corporations are even bigger barriers. Sure, it might not happen to everyone and it probably won't happen to most. If you want to gamble with your life, go ahead, but please, don't tell others some form of protection isn't needed.
  If you don't want to or can't pay, don't torrent. There are other, safer ways to get content.

I've heard some polish productions pursue its pirates in their home companies, but not from international companies like Disney.
- It's canal+ mainly that's always on the hunt.
  Apparently downloading stuff in Poland is legal but sharing (seeding) it's not, so there is the problem

Hey, fellow pole here. Generally if you get letter letter from isp you have to act like dumb and not respond to letter since you would prove that you did it. I torrented without vpn and I didn’t get letter yet, maybe because it is harder to find my location thanks to being connected to cell tower in Warsaw (I don’t know how exactly my connection to internet outside works but I do know that it isn’t wired and thanks to that it is harder to locate me probably). If you would get letter from isp get yourself a vpn and then bind it to your torrenting client so it wouldn’t work if it would disconnect from vpn. If you don’t understand or want me to explain it in polish, let me know and we will go to dms
- but I do know that it isn’t wired and thanks to that it is harder to locate me probably
  that does not matter if the subscription is on your name (and address)
- You account number is linked to the SIM you use and that is linked to your adress.

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