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Ignorant question: Can downloading the torrent result in charges of 'digital theft' and given the 'value' of the file result in a felony?
by singularity2001 5y ago
Ignorant question: Can downloading the torrent result in charges of 'digital theft' and given the 'value' of the file result in a felony?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- mythz 5y agoCan Web Browser users be charged with 'digital theft' for downloading images from public HTTP servers? No, it's the same thing.
- TrackerFF 5y agoLet's say you create some image, and claim ownership over it. Would it be theft if someone views that image, and thus saves it? Like via the browser/cache, to the computer, or whatever. I can see that it would be a copyright violation if someone actively hosts that exact picture. Shouldn't be much different from hosting copyrighted audio or video clips. But then again, if you host that picture on some public website - just the mere fact that someone views it, would also mean that their computer probably has already stored it? With that said, I do think that sharing copyrighted material, goes under digital theft. And in this case, someone has explicitly shared the media/data. (I'd imagine that this varies from country to country. What is theft in one country, may not be the same in another.)
- superbaconman 5y agoNo, because you wouldn't have actually stolen anything. The content of nfts are public; they kinda have to be to live on the Blockchain. You actually need the wallet that owns the nft in order to prove ownership. In other words, you have to steal someone's wallet to take their nfts.
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoI doubt it. Nobody in the NFT space is ignorant of the fact that copies can be made, an NFT is simply ownership of the original. The more people want copies of something, the more valuable the original would probably be.