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Re:Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video] by bragr on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:24PM (#35602998)
>This is why I am not aware of anyone ever being sue or otherwise held to account for DOWNLOADING copyrighted works. They always Sue over DISTRIBUTION.

So you must have missed all the filesharing lawsuits over the last 25 years. Lots of people got sued for just downloading, not seeding, just downloading.

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Re:Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video] by phpisthebest on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:01PM (#35603502)
I followed them very closely, 99% of them were bit torrent and misreported in the media as "downloading" when in fact if you read the actual cases it was the distribution / uploading that was the bases of the case
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