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Re:Stable Diffusion Frivolous Litigation by williamcotton on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:31PM (#34404548)
> And yet torrent sites have been found to violate copyright, despite not hosting any of the copyrighted content.

BitTorrent itself is legal. The torrent sites that were shut down were found to have basically no non-infringing utility. There were and still are other torrent sites that have non-infringing utility which are of course allowed to exist.

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Re:Stable Diffusion Frivolous Litigation by karpierz on Monday January 16, 2023 @03:51PM (#34405319)
> BitTorrent itself is legal.

Yes, and so is Winzip, and the code that trains Stable Diffusion. But that doesn't have much to do with the resulting data that is used and generated by those files.

> There were and still are other torrent sites that have non-infringing utility which are of course allowed to exist.

Can you point me to a torrent site that withstood a legal challenge for copyright infringement?

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Re:Stable Diffusion Frivolous Litigation by williamcotton on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:49PM (#34405922)
https://www.publicdomaintorrents.info/
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