I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

  • NoneYa@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    In my country it is illegal to share, but not illegal to download

    By torrenting, you are sharing by default as it’s P2P. Even if you choose not to seed after downloading, you’re still sharing while you are downloading as other people who download after you are downloading chunks of the data from your partially downloaded data too.

    So technically you are still committing a crime here.

    Should that law change, it cannot retroactively affect something that happened in the past

    Not necessarily. Very tyrannical governments don’t care and will tread on your rights even going backwards before the law was enacted if they so desire to do so.

    Most laws don’t apply retroactively, but some can and do.