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> A lot of people think they are required to seed, and for some reason that scare the hell of them. Some of the reasons consists of lawyers sending put costly
by _def 1y ago
> A lot of people think they are required to seed, and for some reason that scare the hell of them.
Some of the reasons consists of lawyers sending put costly cease and desist letters even to "legitimate" users
- skrebbel 1y agoFor seeding map data?
- swiftcoder 1y agoParticularly if your torrent traffic is encrypted, they don't always bother to check what you are torrenting
- skrebbel 1y agoAre you just theorizing, or is there precedent of this? I mean of lawyers sending cease and desist letters to people torrenting random encrypted streams of data?
- swiftcoder 1y agoWhen I was working in p2p research, we used to get regular C&Ds just for scraping the tracker (not even downloading anything!). IP holders be wilding
- skrebbel 1y agoAppreciate your response, madness indeed!
- squigz 1y agoDo companies send out C&Ds for your average user torrenting? I've gotten thousands of DMCA letters but never a C&D, and I've only ever heard of 1 person getting one, and they were silly enough to be hosting a collection of paid content that they scraped themselves, from their home. DMCA demands are, as far as I'm aware, completely automated and couldn't really cost much.