• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I think God for all the illegal streaming sites out there. Because God knows that it’s not safe to torrent these days

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        1 year ago

        It’s honestly a single click at this point with many of the GUI clients offered by VPN providers, and there’s so much competition out there that VPN service is one of the few things in the world actually getting cheaper.

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      1 year ago

      Because God knows that it’s not safe to torrent these days

      It’s safer to use illegal streaming? What’s so unsafe about torrenting?

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        1 year ago

        Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not. Streaming is downloading. Torrenting is both.

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          1 year ago

          Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not.

          Is this the law in the US? I’m not sure that’s how it is everywhere…

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            1 year ago

            The way the law is written in the US - and in many other parts of the world - only the uploader has the capacity to infringe. Not everyone realizes it, and rightsholders say that downloaders are also culpable. But, the US law does not specifically declare receiving a copy to be an infringing act.

            For a downloader to be infringing, they would have to be culpable for uploading as well as downloading. The downloader would have to conspire with the uploader to commit infringement. Rightsholders have tried to make this argument with public trackers, but they have never succeeded. As far as I know, this argument has never been tried with private trackers. The process and requirements of joining and participating in a private tracker may very well be enough to support a conspiracy charge.

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        1 year ago

        Direct streaming/downloading doesn’t give your IP away (just to the server), torrenting does.