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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • They only go after people sharing files, and typically only people sharing lots of files. Technically when you torrent you are sharing files, but they don’t usually go after regular seeders. Sometimes your internet provider might ask you to stop being a pirate but that’s the most likely bad consequence for a regular pirate. Direct downloads, streaming, and usenet doesn’t involve actual sharing of files and so is perfectly legal, or at least not something that has consequences.

    There’s also stuff you can do to make it less likely that your illicit activities will be detected, but that’s not something I know a lot about. I imagine VPNs can help with this sorta stuff.

    Your wife is right that some people do go to prison for this, but that’s usually people like the ones behind pirate bay and similar.

    I’m not a half queer half law person, so take what I have to say with lots of salt and pepper.