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Well, I thought it was extremely obvious that BitTorrent by itself is perfectly legal, and that it is of course not banned in Germany. Of course you only get a
by captainmuon 12y ago
Well, I thought it was extremely obvious that BitTorrent by itself is perfectly legal, and that it is of course not banned in Germany.
Of course you only get an "Abmahnung" if you use it for copyright violations. But that is by far the largest use case. It can hardly be ignored that most people, especially "non-technical" ones, associate BitTorrent only with illegally downloading media.
What I wanted to say, is that now - as opposed to a few years ago - the probability of getting into trouble when downloading popular episodes via bittorrent has approached ~1.
- aw3c2 12y agoAs I said on another comment to you, you better include "public" somehow in your rhetoric. The probability of getting into trouble when downloading popular episodes via private bittorrent trackers or on I2P is ~0, not that I would do or advocate such thing.
- captainmuon 12y agoWell, I wouldn't trust private trackers too much, because if I can get access to such a tracker, then the piracy hunters can as well (with private I assume you don't mean really private between friends, but rather trackers you have to register for, or get invited to). I can't comment on I2P because I haven't tried it, I didn't know that it works with decent speed. My point was basically, the old approach of Joe Average Pirate of 1) installing µTorrent and 2) googling for "Big Bang Theory S05E01 torrent" is as good as dead. You're right I was a bit sloppy, but that's moot now since I can't edit my post anymore and will probably continue to be downvoted until the text is completely invisible :-(