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  • Klaus SteinLapizistik@social.tchncs.de
    Jul 11, 2026, 9:42 PM

    @alienghic

    Includes knowing to use bittorrent being aware of how this changes your legal status in the jurisdiction you are living in?

    I abstained from using it for copyrighted material (but used it e.g. for Debian downloads) as in Germany there is a fine legal distinction between downloading material available online for personal use and providing material to others (which you automatically do when using bittorrent).

    But I don't know about the current state and if anyone still tries to track this and starts lawsuits.

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  • Dianealienghic@timeloop.cafe
    Jul 11, 2026, 9:55 PM

    @Lapizistik

    At least the cranky American media companies will absolutely start lawsuits if they can find someone.

    (There are ways to be harder to detect than the default bittorrent protocol behavior.)

    Also I'm not sure how international relations might influence this.

    For instance would the EU care if someone bittorrented a copyrighted Russia movie?

    Or since the really restrictive copyright laws were pushed by the USA, and everyone else is getting fed up with the USA, will they stop caring about enforcing USA corporate copyright claims?

    As an example of pushing back on USA corporate IP law, Doctorow thinks Canada should retaliate against Trumps tariffs by invalidating the anti-circumvention IP restrictions Trump had previously imposed on Canada and Mexico

    pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/bea

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  • Klaus SteinLapizistik@social.tchncs.de
    Jul 11, 2026, 10:05 PM

    @alienghic

    I am aware one could use measures to be harder to detect.

    AFAIK a company would need to start a lawsuit and this definitely happened back then. Additionally lots of things from the US are licensed by some European company who would want to protect their invest.

    With the sanctions against Russia the situation in this area would be more complicated. And Russia currently infringes copyright (e.g. it illegally uses a factory and old parts from BMW to build unlicensed cars).

    But now we are far away from the original question.

    Nevertheless: I love the works from @pluralistic

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