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0 pointscrumpled2y 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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8organicbits2y ago

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

boomboomsubban2y 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.

rightbyte2y ago

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

partiallypro2y ago

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

crumpledOP2y ago

Leachers, haha.

I do the same, minus the logging.

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