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How do we know this was because of a DMCA complaint?

Edit: Never mind -- > https://infosec.exchange/@bobdahacker/115158347003096276

Usually yes, it would go to your ISP. And depending on the ISP they’ll forward it to you or not. This was way more prevalent in the era where movie studios were hiring firms to send bulk DMCAs to people downloading torrents.

Back in 2008–2009, we had a lot of bare metal servers at SoftLayer's (Dallas, TX) facility. One of our customers ran a South American music forum, and anytime someone uploaded an MP3, the data center would honor the DMCA request and immediately stop routing traffic to the server until the issue was resolved. Now imagine what tools they might have in their arsenal in 2025.

When I ran a torrent tracker the biggest line item was paying an ISP to put their neck on the line and ignore every DMCA.