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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by ceejayoz on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:57AM (#31123281)
You'd probably lose.

The thing they get you on with BitTorrent isn't the download part, it's the seeding part, where you're distributing the copyrighted content to other downloaders.

You could turn off seeding, but that'll get you banned from a lot of torrent sites, and it's not a technical distinction I'd want to have to explain in court to lay people.

Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by rsync on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:58PM (#31124385)
Again - it has been a while - but I did, indeed, use leech mode on the client … so no seeding.