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Originally Posted by KrazyTaco
But then again if you don't upload to your peers, BitTorrent dies, that simple. The "Oh well copy protection sux" excuse won't work because... well you know... it's just not an argument. The judge would just say you could have decided not to legally/illegally obtain it if you didn't like copy protection.
Finally, I think your last idea may float. One could claim some random guy logged onto your network and started downloading using it all withought you knowing. That's still risky though, if they put a warrant on your computer to further investigate your claims and they catch you trying to delete any files since the warrant was made, you'd be in trouble for obstruction of justice.
I would say there are two ways to go about downloading. The first is to just take the risk. I'm sure statistics are in your favor of not getting caught. If you don't want to take that risk, then by all means find a really good private tracker. The only downside to that is, from my experiance, all the private trackers don't have nearly as many files or seeds as do public trackers.
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Most private trackers force their users to seed at least as much as they download or they can get banned, none of that download and run BS. Plus from what I've seen there are many more dead (and underseeded) torrents out in the public arena as opposed to private trackers. Most private peers actually care about share ratio.
And about downloading of foreign material: unless the country of it's origin tells the US to crack down, it'll never happen. The US only protects it's intellectual property, it doesn't give a rat's ass about prtotecting the rights (or revenue) of some pop band from Korea.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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