Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding

latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, that’s how it tends to be in most places.
  You don’t get caught for downloading; you get caught for uploading.

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  • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s just confirmation bias. The buyer/downloaders don’t get caught is just because there are too many of them and going after the distributor is an easy target.

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    • gon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not the case, necessarily.

      In Portugal, for example, it’s legal to download pirated content. It’s not a matter of not pursuing it because it’s hard or being difficult to catch or distributors are an easier target, it’s just that, legally, you’re not doing anything wrong.

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      • OwlPaste@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        sooooo… vpn should point to Portugal…

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      • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh for real? Learn something new today.

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In Canada it’s legal to download and watch content for personal use, so it’s when it’s shared that it becomes an issue.

      Just like you could record anything with a vcr, you just couldn’t share it with your friends.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is it not also because it was easier to feign ignorance for the time the laws were passed?
      And that nobody thought of Tor, while at the same time, leechers who don’t seed are actually being worse for the Torrent?

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yup. In switzerland its legal to leech, illegal to seed.

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  • latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Eh. Makes sense from the perspective of protecting profits, I guess, because the actual thing which bothers them is the volume of lost potential customers…

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Elitism. He is of the belief that he is better than you, and doesn’t live in the same world as you.

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• regrub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And the copyright owners have no problem with them profiting from derived works that were made using pirated content?

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  • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you can download it, but you can’t use it. so restrictive :(

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