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That's great, but BitTorrent over JS is also dangerous, at least where I live. C/D letters come with a 200-1000 € fee depending on the content and now it's tri

• Sujan 11y ago
  See it the other way around: One big website in your country could implement this in the background with a list of know "C/D letters" triggering torrents, and the business model of these C/D letter writing laywers would be broken in half a year. Because if they target people that really didn't download anything knowingly, they will get lawyers themselves and go to court. And when the courts figure out that the old way of "proving" a download doesn't work any more, the business modell is broken. Unfortunately there is collateral damage :/
  • yAnonymous 11y ago
    In theory, yes, but you have no idea how incompetent German courts are. They believe everything copyright holders feed them. There was a similar case last year that, fortunately, went very badly for the copyright attourneys. Thousands of users were redirected from an ad to copyrighted porn videos and then C/D'd. The attourneys got into a lot of trouble and even lost their license, but their clients still ran off with the money. The case was only reviewed when it got media attention, but using torrents makes it even more difficult to prove the scam.
    • Sujan 11y ago
      Believe me, I have a pretty good idea how competent or incompetent German courts are. Still, you're right. This would only work at scale, after quite a long time and cause a lot of damage on the way. The website implementing this would probably also get sued into the ground. Better get a Netflix subscription and/or install Kodi on some FireTV thingie...