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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The whole point to Bit Torrent is to reduce load on host servers. When you download a torrent file, the torrent points to a tracker that maintains a list of seeds (sites with the complete file) and leechers (sites getting the file). Your bit torrent client contacts other sites listed by the tracker and initiates communication. At the same time you are downloading parts of the file you don't have from peers that have them, you are uploading parts of the file you do have to other peers that need those parts.
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Of course in practice you always upload. But here I thought the interesting question was if possession of material that you did not explicitly had the right to was illegal to possess. And the argument was that since it was illegal to download it was illegal to possess it.
Poeple do not seem to be in agreement on what holds. Is everybody in agreement on that if it was not illegal to download then it can not be illegal to have it? Or to show that its is illegal to have it you must show that it was obtained in an illegal way?