Hypothetical bittorent RIAA question

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First of all I want to go on record to say that, if my pal Bugsy was in this oven, downloading torrents, would I turn on the gas?

Not convinced? What if I threw this lit match inside the oven? Would you believe me then?

OK, I have this friend, who knows a guy, who read about this in The Enquirer see? and he likes to download various stuff from bittorrent sites from public wifi spots, and he has for years with no problem. The other day, he tells me that his browser was hijacked by time warner saying that downloading of copyrighted material to his ip was reported by a copyright holder. There was a link to click saying something to the effect of I'm aware of it and taking steps to make it stop.

The browser was basically frozen until he clicked the link; every new tab would be the same message.

So, he clicked the link and things went back to normal. But now he is wondering about spoofing his ip, or using Tor, or paying for a VPN, or just saying fuck it and not downloading any new popular songs (he suspects it was this as he does not care for anything recorded within the last 10 years.

He's read that one is not suppposed to use Tor to download, but can he download the .torrent or the magnet link and then use deluge, for example, to download the content? Or would deluge show his ip?

What the fuck is he talking about? It's all gibberish to me. But apparently he's falling behind on his programs.

He may of may no be running linux mint 17.3