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Originally Posted by Grimm
There's no one person or server to target to try and stop it. Add in PeerBlock as I mentioned earlier, and you're pretty well protected from even being targeted as a seeder.
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If I understand correctly Canadian legal practice wrt piracy, the passive download of copyrighted material (from Rapidshare or from Usenet, for example) will not put you in jail, putting copyrighted material to the public server will.
The participation in torrent sharing, in any way, shape or form, is considered participation in the distribution (your machine is offering bits and pieces of copyrighted material to others, never mind the seeder status), and you are a target, if there is someone willing to bring you to the court. The copyright law is protecting any part of the copyrighted material, even things like the plot of the novel.