Afrihost torrent policies

[Tsar]

Downloading games is bad, downloading series so that you do not have to wait until SABC buys rights to it in 5 years' time, is okay

Well it actually is the same thing. Downloading a series or music is considered piracy/

[TBlaar]

Well it actually is the same thing. Downloading a series or music is considered piracy/

Thanks for clearing that up

[Wesley]

Im moving over to an Afrihost capped account soon and would like to know if downloading torrents is more risky than using an uncapped account?

No more risky than downloading something off Pirate Bay. Afrihost can't see your torrent contents if you're using encryption, but they can see volume of data moved and the IP addresses you're connecting to.

Then if they collecting info on my torrent downloads which is the best way to try block them? VPN or Proxy?

Using a VPN or proxy to bypass the uncapped Home shaping policies is against their terms, so if they do catch you doing that your account could be closed. Not sure if those terms are the same for their Business accounts, but it's an unshaped account anyway.

Would legal action be taken in South Africa if you have received warning letters from your ISP and you ignored them and carried on downloading torrents?

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, only if you're pirating content made locally, like music, TV series like Isidingo or a movie like Tsotsi. If you're paranoid about this you can use Telkom because they don't care what you do as long as the bill is paid, although their torrent performance is incredibly sucky at this point.