Jack@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMeta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seedingarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down16
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minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·edit-21 day agoWell, that’s how it tends to be in most places. You don’t get caught for downloading; you get caught for uploading. Using a similar logic to distribution via DVDs. Only the seller gets into trouble. The buyer does not.
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoYup. In switzerland its legal to leech, illegal to seed.
minus-squarelatenightnoir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoEh. Makes sense from the perspective of protecting profits, I guess, because the actual thing which bothers them is the volume of lost potential customers…
Well, that’s how it tends to be in most places.
You don’t get caught for downloading; you get caught for uploading.
Using a similar logic to distribution via DVDs. Only the seller gets into trouble. The buyer does not.
Yup. In switzerland its legal to leech, illegal to seed.
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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