I have been utilizing Surf Shark VPN for downloading on qBittorrent then putting files on a local plex server for the past week. Today, I jumped off the VPN to access my school website.
There was a popup banner on the school website that Mediacom had been notified of an copyright infringement. Has anyone experienced a similar issue with Surf Shark or perhaps I’m doing something incorrectly as I hadn’t torrented in quite awhile.
Seems weird. I use surfshark for a while for torrenting but never had this problem. Maybe it’s something their live chat can fix? Worth a try
Going to https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ - found that my IP is associated with the download of an NBC show and a Disney show. I know that I had the VPN on during this time. I’ve linked qbittorent and Surf Shark, and turned on the kill switch for Surf Shark.
Use Qbittorrent client to torrent. I myself use surfshark. Thankfully, I’ve never been caught. Just make sure to bind network adapter in vpn settings, kill switch, enable anonymous mode in the torrent client, and don’t use the proxy protocol