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Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?

From D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.privacy, alt.comp.issues.privacy
Subject Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?
Date 2024-12-13 10:59 +0100
Organization i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
Message-ID <823cf8e6-c583-9d3f-cfce-eb136cf02797@example.net> (permalink)
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Oliver wrote:

>> Different threat model than torrents. This was to illustrate that for some 
>> uses I feel little need for privacy and for other uses I feel greater needs 
>> of privacy. Different tools for different use cases.
>
> I agree fully that torrents are completely different than chats, where, for
> torrents, there is no risk at all in the USA of being convicted since it
> has never happened.
>
> But it's expensive to fight a court case, right?
> And it could be embarrassing to even fight a court case, right?
>
> So lots of people settle out of court.
>
> But nobody in the USA has ever been convicted of torrenting (there was one
> set of cases which were overturned 'cuz the lawyers lied during the trial).

Wow! Very interesting. I was not aware of that, so thank you for bringing it up.
I've seen the occasional post on torrentfreak and given the US legal culture I
was absolutely sure of it.

> Since there has never been a successful prosecution of torrenting of
> mainstream movies in the United States, the actual risk is rather low.
>
> But why bother being hauled off to court?
>

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How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-06 21:31 -0700
  Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-07 11:17 +0100
    Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2024-12-07 13:26 -0600
      Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-07 21:51 +0100
        Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-07 17:38 -0700
          Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-12-08 09:40 +0000
            Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-08 19:46 -0700
          Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2024-12-08 09:26 -0600
            Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-08 21:45 +0100
              Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-08 20:01 -0700
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-09 10:23 +0100
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-09 16:41 -0600
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-10 09:42 +0100
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-10 18:56 -0700
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-12-11 07:52 +0000
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-11 10:34 -0700
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-12-11 21:26 +0000
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-12 15:32 -0600
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-11 10:40 +0100
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-11 10:34 -0700
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-11 22:03 +0100
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-12 15:32 -0600
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-13 10:59 +0100
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-13 08:36 -0600
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-14 13:12 +0100
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-15 19:52 -0700
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-16 10:20 +0100
            Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-08 20:00 -0700
              Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2024-12-09 09:49 -0600
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-09 16:40 -0600
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2024-12-10 09:43 -0600
                Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-10 18:52 -0700
          Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? D. Ray <d@ray> - 2024-12-09 07:03 +0000
            Re: How much latency do you add to torrents? Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-12-09 15:51 -0700

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