wiplash Posted July 3, 2006 Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 hey peeps, it suddenly dawned on me the other day, that im here happily torrenting loads of movies and music and stuff, but i dont actually know if what im doing is illegal. anyone help me out and clear this up for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted July 3, 2006 Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 where's that here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted July 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 say what now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted July 3, 2006 Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 depends in which country u are..it's not illegal to download illegal stuff here.. yeah sounds strange.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted July 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 ahhh i see what your gettin at.. im in england Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaelox Posted July 3, 2006 Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 Depends on your country of residence. in some countries (not a lot I imagine) downloading/uploading is not illegal, in some countries only uploading is illegal (which inherently means BT crosses the line as you automatically upload what you download) and in some countries including, but not limited to, Spain, France, Sweden, USA(?) both downloading and uploading is illegal.Even when it's not implicitly illegal, your country's copyright lobbying group(s) may try to use scare tactics like legal threats, and letters to your ISP to get you to stop sharing.If you're not so much worried about the legalities of the matter, but more about the risks of "being caught", then find a private tracker you can only join via an invite from a friend, use header encryption, protowall and/or PG2, etc.. none of it is foolproof, but every little bit might help.Edit: sorry for repeating, was a bit slow replying.it's not illegal to download illegal stuff here.. yeah sounds strange.. nothing you download is by itself implicitly "illegal", only the act of downloading and/or uploading can be illegal by law (and in many countries isn't as downloading is often considered on the same level as making a backup copy, even if you don't own the particular movie/album). Software is a wholly different ball park in some legal systems, although even for example software that "cracks" other software is not by definition "illegal", just putting it to use would be.The term "illegal" is being used far to lax if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaiDozo Posted July 3, 2006 Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 hehehe, where? what? huh? Anyway,Yes, most likely it is illegal for you. It depends on where you live but in most countries it is illegal to download copyrighted material, or atleast to upload it which you do when you download with BitTorrent.If you're in the US for example then the RIAA is not gonna be happy with you and if (BIG if) they caught you they prolly would resort to somesort of legal blabla I don't really care, I download files and if I see something I like I'll also wanna see it in the movies. There's a big ongoing (worldwide) discussion about the legality and ethics of downloading stuff, mp3s forexample.~HaiDozo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaelox Posted July 3, 2006 Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 If you're in the US for example then the RIAA is not gonna be happy with you and if (BIG if) they caught you they prolly would resort to somesort of legal blabla RIAA (still) does not equal LAW... the RIAA can be unhappy up the yin yang, so long as there's no law.... which brings me to my next question; is downloading in fact illegal (by law!) in the States? I'm pretty sure I've ever only heard of ppl being sued and them settling over counts of uploading copyrighted materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muwa Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 In my country ISPs host pirated movies/music/games on fast internal FTP servers. They even advertise it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalShrubber Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 In my country ISPs host pirated movies/music/games on fast internal FTP servers. They even advertise it. ...and I wouldn't wanna live down there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 Were do you live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muwa Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 Were do you live?Georgia (not US state) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 It's not legal in the states. It's copyright infringement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjbose Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 If I were to download copyrighted data of any kind...is there any way for the angry parties to track me down? I notice you can see the IP addresses of all your peers during the torrent download. If so...how common is it that people are tracked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 Yes, there are plenty of ways for them to track you down. They can check tracker logs. They can connect to the swarm. People block "known" anti-P2P IP ranges, but they can always just use their home connections to do monitoring. How common? Dunno, but from what I've seen, it's on the rarer side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war59312 Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 Well Ultima, US government agencies at least must use their registered IP addresses to do their dirty work. So you can "easily" block them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 But it's not government agencies that are doing the anti-P2P stuff... or at least I wouldn't consider the RIAA/MPAA/MediaSentry/38.100.x.x/whatever else to be a part of my government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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