# Verizon FIOS flagged me for using torrents..WTF?

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**Created:** [April 13, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/verizon-fios-flagged-me-for-using-torrents-wtf/263391 "2012-04-13T20:01:09Z")
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### Author: ![HudsonFalcon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hudsonfalcon/32/6460_2.png) [@HudsonFalcon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HudsonFalcon)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/verizon-fios-flagged-me-for-using-torrents-wtf/263391/14 "2012-04-14T10:31:46Z")

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> [@Arnold Palmer](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/arnold-palmer/49158/20):
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> Damn that’s a lot. I’m still under 3TB between music, games, and movies. Then again, I used to burn everything I downloaded (when hard drives were 500GB :lol). I regret it now…because there is no way I’m re-ripping some of those old movies back to my HDD. Would take forever.

Yeah he’s basically downloading files non-stop. From what I’ve read this is how they get wise to illicit file sharing, the constant high bandwidth usage for weeks, months, years, etc.

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