submitted 1 year ago by gwi1785@feddit.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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i wonder how much is left from the very early sharing ideals from the dawn of the internet.

do you juat take or do you offer something?

upload stuff, contribute by seeding, rip, be part of a group ..?

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[-] Wea@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I don't seed. I live in a country with tight laws and actual cases of people getting sued over torrenting and seeding. With different financial outcomes between those two.

We are on the poor side and while I have some technical knowledge I'm not confident enough I can protect myself from financial trouble. So I unfortunately torrent through a VPN and have my client set to seed 0%.

[-] rambos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Better then pay for usenet instead of VPN. Not sure is 0% enough to protect yourself

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure is 0% enough to protect yourself

It's definitely not. Copyright trolls send letters to all peers in a torrent swarm regardless of uploading/downloading. And in any case the bittorrent protocol uploads and downloads simultaneously - Even if the commenter is attempting to seed 0% they are still participating in the torrent swarm and uploading pieces of data to others in the swarm during their own download.

I have to assume that commenter's VPN is working as intended or maybe they have been lucky.