Slightly off-topic, but I worry about the “you should have known better” standard that the law applies to copyright violations that allowed these folks to get a

Slightly off-topic, but I worry about the “you should have known better” standard that the law applies to copyright violations that allowed these folks to get away with this in the first place. The logic seems to be: everybody knows that movies you have to download from BitTorrent are only up there because they’re copyrighted, so you knew that you were engaging in piracy, so you’re guilty. In general, I agree that’s probably true - anybody who would deal with something as user-unfriendly (relative to, say, Netflix) as a torrent site probably knew they were engaging in copyright violation. On the other hand, there are enough user-friendly, ad-supported sites like crunchy roll, popcornflix, tubi TV, etc. that your average web user has no way of distinguishing rights against.