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08-31-2007, 12:32 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 12
|  torrents illigal now?
talked to a friend of mine and he said torrents in canada are illegal now.
True?
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08-31-2007, 01:05 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,728
| Re: torrents illigal now?
Torrents of certain things have always been illegal. Like of XP and games and movies. Those are all illegal no matter where you are. It breaks copyright infringement. Only torrent that are legal are for Linux and some movie that you buy thru the new BitTorrnet site. Other than that yes he is right. They are illegal and always have been.
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08-31-2007, 01:08 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 6,063
| Re: torrents illigal now?
It just depends on what the torrent file contains. Like Makaveli said, if its movies/music/etc, then yes they're illegal. But if it contains something that was free from the get-go (like freeware, or contains shareware), then they're perfectly fine.
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08-31-2007, 01:12 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Right nea da beach Posts: 104
| Re: torrents illigal now?
Torrentspy is currently under attack, check the site.
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08-31-2007, 03:13 PM
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Graphic Designer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Posts: 507
| Re: torrents illigal now?
Yeah, at torrentspy, comments have been disabled.
Furthermore it depends on the location. If you are inside E.U. except Germany (Like me), Isps give information about user log files that are kept at their servers only if a felony has been commited by the user they don't give any info for simple misdemeanours. There was only one time that Columbia detected an IP of a user of a greek ISP and forced them to cut his line off for downloading movies and then he changed ISP with also defaming them over the net so as to make them lose lots of clients.
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08-31-2007, 05:31 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 732
| Re: torrents illigal now?
not illegal in Russia
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08-31-2007, 06:45 PM
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Banned Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 5,191
| Re: torrents illigal now?
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Originally Posted by snypercore  not illegal in Russia | In Soviet Russia, torrents download YOU.
Downloading copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder is copyright infringement. | |
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08-31-2007, 07:29 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 153
| Re: torrents illigal now?
Doesn't ThePirateBay host their severs in Sweden where they can get away with it?
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08-31-2007, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,728
| Re: torrents illigal now?
Technically yes. But depending on where you are when you are downloading. Since you are teh end IP you are teh one at risk.
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09-01-2007, 04:40 AM
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Graphic Designer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Posts: 507
| Re: torrents illigal now?
The funny thing in Greece is that there are some black men (without being racisting but at 99% they are black), that sell pirated movies especially to older people over 40 years old, that don't know how to download a movie, or even what a pc is. A movie costs 10 euros (~11,5$) and a music cd 5 euros (~5,75$). Well it costs less to buy from them, but the quality is **** and you'd better download them over the internet. | |
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