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I respect your stance on this. What's your opinion on using BitTorrent to "look at it", while (without intention) leaving the default settings of BitTorrent whe
by reaperman 3y ago
I respect your stance on this. What's your opinion on using BitTorrent to "look at it", while (without intention) leaving the default settings of BitTorrent where it usually also uploads for a bit while downloading, but then remembering to manually stop the torrent seeding sometime "shortly" after downloading when the user gets around to it (1 hour to 1 week).
- 1827163 3y agoIt would come under distribution, because your computer is physically uploading this information to others. So it's being sent in the upstream channel of your Internet connection. And it was an event initiated by the user knowingly browsing such material, it did not happen on the behalf of another, as would be the case if he/she ran an anonymizing proxy service for others to use, e.g. a Tor exit node. So that qualifies as distribution to me. It depends if the quantity of data uploaded qualifies as an image of illegal abuse. If it contains fragments of the image, that do not represent such acts, then it's not illegal. The user was being negligent or reckless in not disabling the upload facility completely, it's his/her duty to do so in that case, to prevent further harm to the victim from occurring. And I think that is where we can draw the line and it becomes a crime? And sentencing will take into account the intent? Might not result in jail time if it was just one file?