Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility

Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:49PM (#27441373)

>""Also, what alternative is there for YouTube? there isn't a realistic competitor."

Bittorrent."

I should avoid Google's monopoly by becoming a criminal?

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by easrng on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:00PM (#27441524)

Torrenting is not a crime. Piracy is a crime and a popular use of BitTorrent, but BitTorrent is also used for distributing non-criminal things like Linux ISOs and some app and game updates and art dumps (I have friends who release via torrent monthly) and datasets (for research and AI) and many other things.

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by caslon on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:00PM (#27441525)

Insinuating that using Bittorrent is inherently tied to criminal activity is like suggesting the same for a person who uses a car.

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by cycomanic on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:41PM (#27442492)

He was talking about videos, that is bittorrent as an alternative to youtube. So how do you discover legal videos that interest you on bittorrent?

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by caslon on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:34PM (#27443932)

The same way I discover new movies: See what everyone else is checking out.

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