Different places have different laws
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mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
kava@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s sort of legally gray but generally speaking in the US downloading is a civil offense but not a criminal one. You can get sued by the copyright holder for example but you won’t end up in jail over it.
People usually never get sued for it because it’s not worth it for Comcast to pay for lawyers to try and extract any money out of regular people.
What’s usually considered an arrestable offense is uploading aka distribution. Once you start hosting seedboxes then you enter the area where you’re liable to go to prison.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Torrenting itself is not illegal. The distribution of copyrighted material that you don’t own is the illegal part of