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Why would you care? Is it a legal issue of some sort?
Likely is. When a dorm resident does the torrenting, the university would be receiving those naughty letters.
Oh, those naughty letters! There's a reason Seaseme Street is never brought to you by the letter J or Q. Such naughty letters.
Sorry, I've never lived in a country which bootlicked the copyright owners so much. I've read up on it and wow it sounds kinda insane, someone spies on your traffic and sends you legal threats for pirating stuff.
Eh yes and no. Usually a representative of the rightsholder will join the swarm of a torrent, note all the IP addresses, and send their love letters to every ISP on that list. From there, the ISPs will forward the letters and may take action depending on jurisdiction and local law, which usually amounts to soft threats or suspending your account after multiple interactions. It isn't that the ISPs are spying on your traffic (at least in this instance), they just don't want to get caught up in "enabling piracy" or whatever nonsense. Hence why VPNs are a thing.
I'm not saying it's the ISPs spying on you, it's the copyright owners; and the ISPs bend over to them (because the legal system forces them to).