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Re:Download responsibly by swiftcoder on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:39AM (#45332575)
Particularly if your torrent traffic is encrypted, they don't always bother to check what you are torrenting
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Re:Download responsibly by skrebbel on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:29PM (#45339708)
Are you just theorizing, or is there precedent of this? I mean of lawyers sending cease and desist letters to people torrenting random encrypted streams of data?
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Re:Download responsibly by swiftcoder on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:32AM (#45344744)
When I was working in p2p research, we used to get regular C&Ds just for scraping the tracker (not even downloading anything!). IP holders be wilding
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Re:Download responsibly by skrebbel on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:25AM (#45357328)
Appreciate your response, madness indeed!
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