# 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: ![xreaction](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/xreaction/32/6409_2.png) [@xreaction](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/xreaction)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2012, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/verizon-fios-flagged-me-for-using-torrents-wtf/263391/16 "2012-04-14T11:13:55Z")

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> [@Curious on what ppl think about using nos in there cars?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/curious-on-what-ppl-think-about-using-nos-in-there-cars/48537/36):
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> This has been a growing trend, did they specifically state what torrents you were downloading? If it was just a threat for using P2P applications theres not much they can do legally as Utorrent and many others is a legal and legitimate way some places distribute content.
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> As daniels said its possible you got a baited torrent, that does happen.
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> Unfortunately this is going to be a growing trend among ISP’s in the future. Many are underway of signing deals with Anti-Piracy organizations to monitor internet traffic and warn/terminate customers who are in violation. Also with the growing trend of streaming media outlets and P2P sharing many that have not done so already are looking at capping bandwidth/throttling traffic. I know TWC tested it with some outrage by customers who were thrown into that little experiment, the funny thing is capping and slowing down bandwidth does nothing to stop congestion.

Yeah they also pulled the Digital Millennium Copyright Act card and knew exactly what i torrented/file size and the stamped time thru the monitor.

I’m going to find other ways to download content for a few weeks and then slowly switch over back to uTorrent with the encryption on to see what happens.  
I heard seeding will raise the chance for you to get flagged greatly so i’m gonna make sure not to seed movies from now on :skid

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