@alienghic @akamran @gwendolenau It’s also used to distribute files that, if hosted with regular hosting providers, might get taken down, because hosting companies tend to cave to political and/or megacorp whims.
For instance, I’m currently torrenting (making available to others) a few terabytes of Gaza genocide files so they can’t be erased from the Internet.
@AnachronistJohn thanks (and glad you are making sure the evidence survives)
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As long as the distribution of the files is legal within the jurisdiction you're seeding them, you're mostly fine.
The trouble is, that seeding material you don't have the copyright to through your "normal" IP will have lawyers crawl up your ass with easy-money-cease-and-desist orders. In Germany there's a number of law firms specialized on that.
There's zero privacy in BT and trackers will just blurt out the IP addresses of everyone seeding.