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23 days agoNot guaranteed, no. It depends solely on whether the torrent in question is monitored by a copyright troll firm, in which case they’ll catch your IP in their regular sweeps and fire off automated complaint letters to the ISP, who then forward it on to you. The ISP itself doesn’t monitor your traffic in that way.
Not all torrents are watched by these firms, not even close, and ISPs often forward the complaints along without taking any action against the subscriber. Some ISPs, however, were successfully sued by the copyright mafia over not doing enough to “fight piracy” or whatever, and now will cut you off the internet entirely and close your account after some stupidly low number of complaints.
Add the “Home Alone” movies and popular sitcom “Friends” to the list, the latter was even featured or mentioned in a video I saw on YouTube once on this exact subject. I remember watching these shows and others mentioned in this topic when younger while being raised in a single-parent apartment with a barely functional beater car, wondering when our telephone or electric service would be cut off next from overdue bills, or when we’d have to call the local food bank for emergency supplies again.