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0 pointscrumpled3y ago0 comments

Just to be clear, the rights holders probably aren't publishing torrents, they just also download them and monitor anybody that happens to connect with their seed.

In a way, they are helping us with better download speeds.

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8organicbits3y ago· 2 in thread

I'd be interested in the legal argument that by sharing their media in this way, the rights holders are authorizing the download.

boomboomsubban3y ago

If it's a problem at all, it seems like they could easily bypass it by only offering a couple chunks rather than the whole file.

rightbyte3y ago

You can offer 0 chunks and still see the seeders, right? How would you otherwise start leeching.

partiallypro3y ago· 1 in thread

I'm sure they are capping their upload speeds to basically nothing and just monitoring the IPs that connect to it.

crumpledOP3y ago

Leachers, haha.

I do the same, minus the logging.

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