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I'm very curious to have a peek but isn't downloading stolen material a crime? And wouldn't this be compounded by the fact that with torrent systems you are als

I'm very curious to have a peek but isn't downloading stolen material a crime? And wouldn't this be compounded by the fact that with torrent systems you are also helping redistributing it further?

AlexCoventry 5y ago
I'm curious about which law downloading this would break.
acoard 5y ago
At most, it would be copyright infringement if Twitch (or Amazon) claimed copyright ownership of the code, which I assume they do. There's no such "trade secrets" laws or anything like that you're violating. Perhaps the hacker has broken laws of unlawful access (i.e. hacking), but you certainly aren't just by downloading it. It's as bad as downloading a song or streaming a movie on a sketchy website. In practice, I've never heard of anyone getting sued for downloading code in a large leak. When the Windows source code got leaked, so many people looked at it, including FAANG engineers. As long as you don't bring any of that stuff to work you're fine. That includes the knowledge[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
rvnx 5y ago
The fact that you are uploader (e.g. distributing the content) while downloading a torrent seems to me to be the biggest risk.
- xeromal 5y ago
  If you have a seedbox, you're probably safe.
- acoard 5y ago
  Correct, but this is the same legal exposure of uploading any copyrighted material (eg songs, movies).
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Possibly, but more importantly it is also just plain immoral. It's disturbing how readily this community wishes to access, analyze, copy, and redistribute this stolen information. This same community that bemoans corporate exploitation of data now getting its rocks off creeping on stolen data.
- _hilro 5y ago
  > It's disturbing how readily this community wishes to access, analyze, copy, and redistribute this stolen information I know right. Panama papers too. /s

I'm very curious to have a peek but isn't downloading stolen material a crime? And wouldn't this be compounded by the fact that with torrent systems you are also helping redistributing it further?

AlexCoventry 5y ago

I'm curious about which law downloading this would break.

acoard 5y ago

At most, it would be copyright infringement if Twitch (or Amazon) claimed copyright ownership of the code, which I assume they do. There's no such "trade secrets" laws or anything like that you're violating. Perhaps the hacker has broken laws of unlawful access (i.e. hacking), but you certainly aren't just by downloading it. It's as bad as downloading a song or streaming a movie on a sketchy website. In practice, I've never heard of anyone getting sued for downloading code in a large leak. When the Windows source code got leaked, so many people looked at it, including FAANG engineers. As long as you don't bring any of that stuff to work you're fine. That includes the knowledge[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

rvnx 5y ago

The fact that you are uploader (e.g. distributing the content) while downloading a torrent seems to me to be the biggest risk.

xeromal 5y ago
If you have a seedbox, you're probably safe.
acoard 5y ago
Correct, but this is the same legal exposure of uploading any copyrighted material (eg songs, movies).

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

Possibly, but more importantly it is also just plain immoral. It's disturbing how readily this community wishes to access, analyze, copy, and redistribute this stolen information. This same community that bemoans corporate exploitation of data now getting its rocks off creeping on stolen data.

_hilro 5y ago
> It's disturbing how readily this community wishes to access, analyze, copy, and redistribute this stolen information I know right. Panama papers too. /s