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does it violate ISP terms (like at&t)? how to make it less obvious to them?

by behnamoh 10mo ago

dewey 10mo ago
That depends entirely on what you download, the country you are in and your ISP.
haunter 10mo ago
Yes, it’s just a plain CLI access to YTS torrents BASE_URL = "https://yts.lt/api/v2"
- samsep10l 10mo ago
  kinda , yeah - sickos
Barathkanna 10mo ago
the tool itself doesn’t change anything from the ISP’s perspective. It just fetches metadata and opens magnet links. What matters is what you download, where you live, and how your torrent client behaves, not whether you clicked the magnet in a browser or a terminal.
- caminante 10mo ago
  The subject is movies (cough copyrighted), not Linux distros. This is an important caveat to raise for someone experimenting. To your point, it's the upload that gets you in trouble in the US (assuming possession is not illegal in itself)
- g947o 10mo ago
  I think the issue is the lack of disclaimer/warnings in the CLI, unlike what most torrent sites do. These sites are very considerate, e.g. for YTS > Warning! > > If you are not using a VPΝ already: Accessing and Playing Torrents on a Smartphone is risky and dangerous. You may be in [City, Country] and using: () . Your IP is [IP] . We strongly recommend all users protecting their device with a VPΝ. I couldn't find anything in the CLI, at least from that gif. Someone who is new or less "experienced" in this might not be aware that they need to use a VPN or similar, since the CLI makes it so easy to search and download. Even you are an experienced user, you may misread and start torrenting by mistake before connecting to VPN. One could argue this is a serious bug.
  - samsep10l 10mo ago
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welferkj 10mo ago
Standard precautions apply when using the internet while under authoritarian jurisdictions.
- caminante 10mo ago
  >authoritarian Copyright is widely adopted even in the most liberal democracies.
  - deleted 10mo ago
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  - welferkj 10mo ago
    But using the modern affordances of coercive states to benefit copyright holders is very much non-standard in the free world. Only a few countries do it to personal end-users to any meaningful degree.

does it violate ISP terms (like at&t)? how to make it less obvious to them?

dewey 10mo ago

That depends entirely on what you download, the country you are in and your ISP.

haunter 10mo ago

Yes, it’s just a plain CLI access to YTS torrents BASE_URL = "https://yts.lt/api/v2"

samsep10l 10mo ago
kinda , yeah - sickos

Barathkanna 10mo ago

the tool itself doesn’t change anything from the ISP’s perspective. It just fetches metadata and opens magnet links. What matters is what you download, where you live, and how your torrent client behaves, not whether you clicked the magnet in a browser or a terminal.

caminante 10mo ago
The subject is movies (cough copyrighted), not Linux distros. This is an important caveat to raise for someone experimenting. To your point, it's the upload that gets you in trouble in the US (assuming possession is not illegal in itself)
g947o 10mo ago
I think the issue is the lack of disclaimer/warnings in the CLI, unlike what most torrent sites do. These sites are very considerate, e.g. for YTS > Warning! > > If you are not using a VPΝ already: Accessing and Playing Torrents on a Smartphone is risky and dangerous. You may be in [City, Country] and using: () . Your IP is [IP] . We strongly recommend all users protecting their device with a VPΝ. I couldn't find anything in the CLI, at least from that gif. Someone who is new or less "experienced" in this might not be aware that they need to use a VPN or similar, since the CLI makes it so easy to search and download. Even you are an experienced user, you may misread and start torrenting by mistake before connecting to VPN. One could argue this is a serious bug.
- samsep10l 10mo ago
  [flagged]

welferkj 10mo ago

Standard precautions apply when using the internet while under authoritarian jurisdictions.

caminante 10mo ago
>authoritarian Copyright is widely adopted even in the most liberal democracies.
- deleted 10mo ago
  [deleted]
- welferkj 10mo ago
  But using the modern affordances of coercive states to benefit copyright holders is very much non-standard in the free world. Only a few countries do it to personal end-users to any meaningful degree.