How did my ISP find out I downloaded a certain file via bittorrent?

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Last week I downloaded a movie that was in theaters not long ago through bittorrent, and maybe two or three days later I got a call from my ISP telling me that they are giving me a warning for downloading that specific movie.

My questions are: How did they know? Do they know everything I do through the internet? Or was it a bait torrent of some kind made by the copyright owner of the movie, who in turn called my ISP? And should I worry about using bittorrent to download subtitled anime (which is sort of illegal but mostly a grey area, depending on whether it is licensed in the United States)?

I would have asked the tech support person or whatever but obviously theyre touchy subjects.

Thanks in advance.
 
ISPs temporarily log details of everything you download. They dislike torrent users because of the bandwidth it takes up. The police can tell which IP address downloaded a file, and the ISP can tell the police which household that IP corresponds to.

The only way to try and protect yourself is to encrypt everything you torrent, so your ISP will have the data of what you have downloaded, but can't tell what it is; http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/
 
Comcast watches traffic, throttles it for usenet/bittorrent.
switch to road runner, they dont watch your traffic and its just as fast.

ISPs that watch traffic are slaves to the machine.
 
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