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I'm curious the nature of the US laws that would make the web front end illegal (or subject to civil penalties?) but not the tracker?
by jrochkind1 1y ago
I'm curious the nature of the US laws that would make the web front end illegal (or subject to civil penalties?) but not the tracker?
- aidenn0 1y agoA tracker is ostensibly a content-neutral middleman. Your ISP isn't illegal (and until recently was not thought to be subject to civil penalties; now there is at least one ongoing case) either. A lot of these websites were "come here and pirate lots of shit," often had tools to make it easier to specifically search for infringing content, and would remove torrents that were not tagged correctly. In many cases some of the people running the sites were also seeding. That makes it hard to argue "we're just passing packets"