@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

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham