One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users’ piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go “lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It’s not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don’t even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?”
A studio (or its subcontractors) is unlikely to be able to connect to and scrape the ips of seeders on trackers provided by a private group. Most studios are going to go to the top couple of trackers listed on google and go get the ips out of whoever is connected to the rarbg/piratebay whatever trackers.
If your private group is smart your torrent file will only work from your ip address too
Oh nice thanks for that. So should I not worry as much about seeding the private trackers?
Nope. Get that ratio up!