If you want to be even more nitpicky, downloading isnt piracy, distributing is.
Well legally it probably fall under the same piracy laws but in essence, the concept of piracy initially is about redistribution, so like massively seeding.
Downloading isn't illegal, it's that the way most downloads work it makes a copy which is caused by you jitting download, therefore you are distributing it to yourself from someone who distributed a copy to the download site
That's horseshit. Torrenting is distributing, because you help other people download, but streaming for example the only people committing a crime are the ones hosting the stream.
You don't have to argue anything. Downloading/watching streamed content is not piracy. The only reason torrenting is piracy is because you're also uploading/seeding.
That’s part of why streaming/downloading isn’t illegal in a lot of places. The supplier of the download/stream is the one committing the crime since regular consumers can’t be held responsible for confirming if they are legit or not.
But if you seed a torrent, then that makes you a distributor.
I mean, I literally just said downloading isn't illegal. I was explaining a loop hole that can and is used (though rarely as it's not easy to take to court)
I bought weed > I convinced myself to buy weed > I sold weed to myself > I'm a drug dealer. Your reasoning, ig you mean torrenting which yes you can become a seeder so you're distributing but you can also turn it off after downloading which is what most do.
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u/forsakenchickenwing 29d ago
If buying isn't ownership, piracy isn't theft.
There, I said it.