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Re:Consumers are frustrated by endless streaming services by rhino369 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:18PM (#15963169)
Don't be dense, f2n was clearly advocating for downloading copies of copyrighted works.
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Re:Consumers are frustrated by endless streaming services by navidfarhadi on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:34PM (#15963369)
Yeah, that was very likely what f2n was advocating. However I wanted to make it clear to eridius that it is not the protocol itself that is illegal. Downloading copies of copyrighted works is indeed illegal.

BitTorrent is not only used for illegally downloading copies of copyrighted content, just like encryption is not exclusively used for terrorism.

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Re:Consumers are frustrated by endless streaming services by eridius on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:50PM (#15963551)
I would like to make it clear that I am perfectly aware the protocol is not illegal, and I'm rather flabbergasted that anyone thought that actually needed to be said. The context was very clearly advocating for using bittorrent to illegally download copyrighted works.
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