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Originally Posted by Ankh
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.
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Interesting, I don't know Canadian law as it does not pertain to me, but thanks for the info!
And you're only a target if you can be traced. Simply put, I've yet to hear (in the USA anyway) of someone who, using PeerBlock properly, that has been tagged for file sharing with regard to torrent files.
Seeder status is what distribution of file packets is. If you're a seeder, you're sharing the bits of the file. I am honestly not sure what the law is in the USA ragrding packets that are pieces of shared files.