This must be the reason every piracy community I know has strict rules about not requesting specific titles. Even if they had the IPs, I’m not sure what they could prosecute, especially considering the number of users who use a VPN.
Or the ISPs in this case. They want the information about the pirates to use them as witnesses to show that the ISP didn’t terminate copyright infringing users, even when notified dozens of times and to show that the ISPs benefitted from these practices by retaining them as paying customers.
Torrents are metadata files, they’re absolutely hosted on websites.
They only describe how your BitTorrent client can initiate the p2p connection, they obviously don’t have the actual data that’s shared, only info about that data.
But why do they need to worry, they do not host anything illegal (also if they only store magnet, they do not even need to store torrent). If linking to illegal content was illegal, google would be dead by now.
Edit: do not host anything illegal = none of the illegal data in the torrents files
This must be the reason every piracy community I know has strict rules about not requesting specific titles. Even if they had the IPs, I’m not sure what they could prosecute, especially considering the number of users who use a VPN.
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Or the ISPs in this case. They want the information about the pirates to use them as witnesses to show that the ISP didn’t terminate copyright infringing users, even when notified dozens of times and to show that the ISPs benefitted from these practices by retaining them as paying customers.
But torrents are not hosted on any website, bittorrent is p2p.
Torrents are metadata files, they’re absolutely hosted on websites.
They only describe how your BitTorrent client can initiate the p2p connection, they obviously don’t have the actual data that’s shared, only info about that data.
But why do they need to worry, they do not host anything illegal (also if they only store magnet, they do not even need to store torrent). If linking to illegal content was illegal, google would be dead by now.
Edit: do not host anything illegal = none of the illegal data in the torrents files