I agree with both of you Scam and bd139.
I know what happens in Germany if you download a copyright movie with torrent.
Some how the information goes (ISP?) in the hands of a law attorney.
This is a nasty and horrible law attorney which hire only evil jung lawyer people fresh from university who have the task to send long letters written in their language asking for money to avoid going to court. Horrible work, according to my german friend which is a lawyer, and after 1/2 years people quit that job. 1500€ Bill.
Either you hire an attorney to deal with them (example proving you were not at home at time/day) or they escalate... No police involved as I understood, God knows why.
Did not happen to me but a friend of mine. I don't need to download movies... I just do Software (with tons of virus/trojan in it)
and nobody cares about a SW in torrent. 99% download movies or music or nasty stuff.
Now a VPN I think will fix the problem to keep that nasty german law attorney away.
(I am right now working in Mexico and believe me if your VPN tunnel come out in Mexico (for example) nobody give a shit if you download Matrix. Just looking at the cars on the road and how they drive this is the real land of freedom!)I don't like my ISP is watching my traffic, that's all.