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Even if these tools are commonly used for suspicious activity, in a legal context simply stating that you use them does not constitute evidence of any wrongdoin
by thirsteh 15y ago
Even if these tools are commonly used for suspicious activity, in a legal context simply stating that you use them does not constitute evidence of any wrongdoing. The former does not simply mean the latter; rather, it is speculation on your part. Whether or not it has a probabilistic basis is irrelevant.
There are many examples where this is true: BitTorrent/P2P (this is actually far more prominent than you'd think; a trendy example is Spotify), BitCoin, Usenet, Tor, Metasploit, any anonymous network, et al.
- w1ntermute 15y agoThis isn't a legal context - it's Hacker News. I think we are all intelligent enough to realize & accept that John is almost certainly using SABnzbd to download copyrighted material.
- thirsteh 15y agoIt doesn't matter if we do. The original question was if he just openly admitted to illegally downloading copyrighted material, and the answer is he didn't.