I honestly don't believe I will have any legal trouble because I don't do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

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[–] TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes but you didn't create the torrent first

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But who created it is irrelevant, the seeding is the legal issue.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think that's not necessarily true. There's certainly some good reasons to have a distinction between the original uploader and all the rest of the additional seeders. It's going to come down to local law.

An analogy is if you buy some illicit substance and split it up with a few friends who pay you their share. Whether or not your local authorities considers you an illegal drug dealer could be highly dependent on scale, profitability, frequency, clientele, etc. Those details could be the difference between a slap on the wrist and some hard time.

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I can't speak for every obscure jurisdiction that might exist, but I've never heard of that being a factor.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I don't know the laws that well, but there is a distinction in Canadian law between uploading and downloading. I'm not entirely sure how applicable to torrenting that is, but I think there's a reasonable argument that if you are the original uploader, you must have uploaded the content in it's entirety, whereas that's not necessarily true for anyone else downloading the torrent, and certainly not provably so.