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submitted 11 months ago by WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Thanks to whoever posted this on reddit. I hope other clients detect and blocking it.

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[-] hh93@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

My girlfriend got a legal claim for using stremio when her vpn failed which in Germany is only possible if you actively upload something so I'd say it does that

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Ok, maybe stremio has a torrent client compiled in or maybe a plugin i dont use has one then.

However, if you turn off upload in your torrent client you can still get caught, uploading isnt want triggers it, connecting to peers with your exposed ip triggers

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but afaik downloading in Germany isn't against the law since it's allowed to download a "backup copy" of things you actually own legally so it's pretty much never enforced. The only way people in Germany get sued is for uploading but then a couple of bytes is already enough in many cases

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I can't speak for germany but where i live downloaders dont ever get sued, they just get complaints from isps and if they get too many they may be shut off or have their speed throttled.

Uploaders get sued because its too costly and time consuming to go after the downloaders