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> Basically users suffer the same legal consequences as for torrenting namely, none, baring exceptional cases

• iforgotpassword 7y ago
  Maybe in Somalia...
  • Mediterraneo10 7y ago
    Or Eastern Europe. Everyone torrents films here, and until recently, ISPs often even facilitated filesharing. Cases where anyone has received criminal sanctions are vanishingly small, even in the EU or West Balkan states, let alone Russia where reportedly most copyright infringement cases are dismissed out of hand.
• sp332 7y ago
  Downloading is a civil violation. Uploading is a crime, since it's "commercial-scale" even if no money actually changes hands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Criminal_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Crimina... While it's true that most pirates won't be prosecuted, there are a lot fewer people willing to risk five years in jail compared to the civil penalties for just downloading.