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Originally Posted by Shaggy
What is "the darknet"? Yes, I know what you probably mean, but how do you say something is in the darknet vs not. You can click on a link on Google and end up receiving material from what many would call "the darknet". Does that mean the line is drawn to include clicking on Google links? Also, there are legitimate things found on file-sharing sites (I downloaded a version of Ubuntu from a torrent site a few days ago). Do they also count as being downloaded from "the darknet"?
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Do we really have to define darknet? Sure, I download from torrent sites on occasion myself. Filesharing sites I use quite frequently, just yesterday I used rapidshare (
). When I get a new user created ROM for my phone, some out of copyright old movies, etc. And Linux is a prime example of legal use of torrents. And not all illegally uploaded stuff is on torrents. If you click on a link you are not downloading anything are you? And Ubuntu is always legally free, what is the point in bringing this up?
The problem lies with downloading copyrighted files for free from a site that clearly isn't authorized to do so. And that is pretty easy to tell, I would say. Everybody can legally distribute Ubuntu versions. If, however, someone occasionally makes a good faith error, so be it, if he/she really believed it was legal. Delete the item once you found out.