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

• umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago

      sooooo… vpn should point to Portugal…

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    • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh for real? Learn something new today.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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