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.
Honestly, it’s not worth their time to come after the people pirating, but rather, the people enabling the piracy to take place. In other words, users have nothing to worry about, it’s the websites hosting the torrents, that need to worry.
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.
Honestly, it’s not worth their time to come after the people pirating, but rather, the people enabling the piracy to take place. In other words, users have nothing to worry about, it’s the websites hosting the torrents, that need to worry.
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