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Re: Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

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Post by deepnet »

claudius wrote: post #44
deepnet wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not. Seeding by default sadly gets a lot of newbs into trouble - especially as publicising IP addresses are part of the protocol. Porn blackmail companies and MPAA agents know that seeders are low hanging fruit. Similarly Limewire and ilk using the downloads folder as a default share folder is useful for the health of the network bu…

> Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not. At least in Germany, both leeching and seeding are copyright infringements as soon as you upload any data back into the swarm. Since leeching also does this (though not exclusively), it is also copyright infringement. Pure downloading is not, though, which is why streaming websites (just downloading, no uploads) are fairly po…

Yes by leech only I meant downloading alone.

Well clarified thanks.

Re: Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

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Post by kbart »

cbeach wrote: post #15

Dislike this kind of story appearing in HN. We're all well educated people with high earning potential who should be capable of buying movies, not using our talent to rip them off. I'd hate to see HN develop a bad reputation because of stuff like this.

South Park, as always, was spot on with this issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0wXeN6_FY

Re: Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

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Post by belorn »

staticelf wrote: post #37
cbeach wrote: post #15

Dislike this kind of story appearing in HN. We're all well educated people with high earning potential who should be capable of buying movies, not using our talent to rip them off. I'd hate to see HN develop a bad reputation because of stuff like this.

I live in Sweden if you're supposed to wait you'll have to wait several months sometimes extra to purchase content made in the US. Also, historically there is no good way to purchase the content if you do not want to purchase a physical disc in a shop. Sometimes it's never available, especially english shows that is only broadcasted on english tv channels.

If we are talking about the situation in Sweden, it must also be said that there is a copyright tax on storage media in computers, phones and similar devices. The tax is supposed to be there so authors get paid when people do private copying, but DRM creates a situation where the tax money get stolen and nothing is returned to the tax payer.

When copyright is used as an excuse to steal tax money, its hard to use morality as an argument against non-commercial copyright infringement.

Re: Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

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Post by branchless »

deepnet wrote: post #32
MoSal wrote: post #9

I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming. A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content. Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for ad…

Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not. Seeding by default sadly gets a lot of newbs into trouble - especially as publicising IP addresses are part of the protocol. Porn blackmail companies and MPAA agents know that seeders are low hanging fruit. Similarly Limewire and ilk using the downloads folder as a default share folder is useful for the health of the network bu…

A regular person hit for 30 mm. USA is insane.
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