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Copying is not stealing. Stealing removes the original, copying leaves the original intact.
let's just be adults here and face it. unless using rhetoric, we still dont know how to deal with piracy in 2022
Let copyright holders deal with unauthorized copying, why should any layman care about it?
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how? i am behind NAT for example, i tried doing it. it did not work. Is there a way for people who have just 20 mbit/s up/downstream and do not have an stable IP addres from home behind NAT? I would run a server for long for seeding if it would be over TOR.
Dude come on, 20mb/s who will you serve with that, forget about it and move near a backbone.
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let's just be adults here and face it. unless using rhetoric, we still dont know how to deal with piracy in 2022
Let's be adults and call "piracy" by its real name: unauthorized copying. Let copyright holders deal with unauthorized copying, why should any layman care about it?
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Copying is privacy and piracy is still an issue for the host.
Piracy is a misnomer used to make people feel like unauthorized copying is "stealing", since "piracy" traditionally refers to people who perform armed robbery on high seas. Copying can be unauthorized, but when you say it as it is, "unauthorized copying" sounds a lot less terrible then "stealing" and "piracy", and is more precise in meaning.
And since the FBI already got involved and arrested people, this is quite the risky endeavor.
There is no chance that I would risk this. I would gladly donate several Terabytes of seeding if this possible in a secure and _anonymous_ network.
It is possible to run ipfs behind tor. And I'd argue it is the right way to do so.
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Completely false equivalence. Copying answers isn't bad because you are infringing on someones "right" to have control over their answers. It is bad because you are commiting academic fraud and seeking a qualification you have not earned. You are claiming anothers achievement as your own. Me reading a pirated book does not mean I claim to be the author.
I guess the elephant in the room is that you're not paying the authors for what they created; in this sense it's like "stealing". Someone spends time and resources making something and you use that something without compensating that someone. I agree it's not exactly like stealing (that's why we invented a different word for it), bt ut's still something that is unfair to the book author(s).
If I download a PDF and read it and then delete it as soon as I am done, have I done the thing that is not exactly like stealing?
If I go to a library and read that same book in its entirety without checking it out ... doesn't seem much different than reading and then deleting a PDF.
Stealing someone else's book definitely seems wrong, but reading it while you are visiting their house seems fine?
I am not claiming to know the right (ethical, moral, whatever) action here. I just have a super huge problem calling it "piracy" or "stealing" or whatever. Figuring out a way to support creators is hugely important, but criminalizing the mere viewing or hearing of art/music/words/etc seems extremely wrong.
Anyway, I've been thinking about all this since at least Napster and I still have no idea really.
I just wonder why all that can't be uploaded into Library Genesis? They already have the distribution part sorted out (IPFS, Torrent, even ed2k!).