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KeyWiteWolf:

--- Quote from: undetz on June 13, 2010, 07:21:34 PM ---Depending on what country you're in, downloading may or may not be legal, uploading is definitely a copyright infringement, though. (Unless you've got a license from the copyright holder)

There's no such thing as a 100% safety guarantee, but even with the lawyers' latest favourite sport being "Sue the random Joe for copyright infringement" it's fairly safe as long as you stay away from mainstream works. Music from the top100 charts and current movies are their favourite targets because a lot of people go for those, some anime series that's downloaded 3 times a week... not so much. Then there's the fact that they'd have to create new accounts every 2 weeks or so (and possibly get banned over it) because they can't maintain a decent ratio and monitor the activity of the torrents. A private tracker such as this is definitely safer than a public one, in a case like this the site owner is far more likely to get sued than any individual who's using it.

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Ah, thank you for the explanation and insight. Honestly this is more or less the kind of thing I was wondering about, so your answer helps a lot. I understand the general risk, but was not sure how a site like this effected that risk. But I guess you make a good point, since I mostly just get anime, its not very mainstream (and a lot of what I like are older anime at that). I didn't think about the site owner getting in trouble, I mean I guess it makes me feel a little less worried for my part, but I would honestly hate to see them get in trouble, since it would mean an end of this cool site. Again though thank you for your reply, I will be a lot less worried about seeding for this site now. Take care. --Key WiteWolf

Sosseres:

--- Quote from: undetz on June 13, 2010, 07:21:34 PM ---Then there's the fact that they'd have to create new accounts every 2 weeks or so (and possibly get banned over it) because they can't maintain a decent ratio and monitor the activity of the torrents. A private tracker such as this is definitely safer than a public one...

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This is false. With minor work you can download from this site without effecting your ratio. It is even allowed. It is useful as a way for new people to get seeding material prior to hitting the wall among other things.

As for the chance of getting sued, well it is pretty low for anime/manga. They have mostly been going after the sites and not the users.

KeyWiteWolf:
ah, so basically they can "sneak in" and catch people if they want. hm.... good to know. but since both of you have said they don't generally target anime downloaders, and you both mention them going after sites before users, I will still take it as low-risk to seed anime here.

Xyresic:
Well, at least none of us (to date that I know of) have gotten sued or even a complaint letter yet.

I'd say it's pretty safe to seed/leech here.

Most Japanese studios just don't care about what happens with anime out of Japan... for now.

Tiffanys:
If you're paranoid, download PeerBlock. It'll ease your paranoia a bit, if nothing else.

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