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I think you'd have to be crazy to upload on bittorrent. IANAL but I think you can only get sued for redistribution of copyrighted material, so downloading is sa
by rgarcia 15y ago
I think you'd have to be crazy to upload on bittorrent. IANAL but I think you can only get sued for redistribution of copyrighted material, so downloading is safe.
- gigawatt 15y agoDon't they treat seeding the same as uploading?
- rgarcia 15y agoBy uploading I also mean seeding
- pavel_lishin 15y agoAren't they technically the same thing? Either way, you're uploading bits to someone else, right?
- dekz 15y agoWouldn't making the initial files available be slightly worse then uploading partial bits?
- pavel_lishin 15y agoSure, but in the eyes of the law, you're still guilty. To pick a random horseman of the infocalypse to draw an analogy from, importing drugs into the country is arguably worse than selling them on the street corner, but both are illegal.
- wmf 15y agoIt depends how bad the enforcement tools are. They may make no distinction between uploading and downloading, just output a list of IP addresses that are part of the swarm.
- Estragon 15y agoThe set of targeted works is pretty small, from what I hear. My understanding is that as long as you stay away from gay porn and recently released movies, your risk of litigation is negligible.
- wmorgan 15y agoI didn't even realize you could do this. Won't the swarm stop talking to you if you don't share?
- wmf 15y agoNo, they'll just send you less data. See BitTyrant for a detailed examination.