Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene

• The_Caretaker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Assuming no VPN is being used, to get your IP while you are seeding, they would need to be connected and downloading. When downloading a torrent you are also sharing the parts you have already downloaded with other torrent users. The agent of the copyright holder has to give the copyrighted material away for free in order to see the IP address of the seeders. By giving it away for free while in the employ of the copyright holder, they are authorizing the sharing of the material.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is this true? You actually have to seed in order to download?

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    • The_Caretaker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Download something and look at the columns in the torrent client. You will see download and upload speeds. While you are downloading, you are also sharing the same file with others who are downloading it.

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      • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        hm, if you set your seed ratio to 0, maybe not though

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• spicehoarder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  All this with a VPN?

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  • arararagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, those people weren’t using it.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m not aware of any way they can catch you with a VPN.

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      420,696,969% tariffs on VPNs who let you connect outside the US.

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