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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EU?

in my (EU) country it's not illegal to download torrents, it's illegal to upload but not to download.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know that in France Both from HADOPI era to now ARCOM, you can be trialed for downloading copyrighted material, if your IP gets captured by Record Labels. the lightest punishement would be the suspension of your internet subscription, but could also result in ahefty fine (thousands of people were forced to pay such a fine) still no one went to prison for this.