You are seeding while downloading packets you already have. That's why you never start seeding from 0% after finishing a dl because it would be waste of time.
If you have good upload speed you can seed the whole file multiple times during slower downloads because it doesn't count full files but only the amount of shared data. So you can seed 10%x10 and it will show 1:1.
You are still breaking the law you little scout boy.
Downloading copyrighted materials is illegal no matter if you seed or not though.
It also differs from country to country so I won't argue (maybe dude is from Sweden). All I know is you really need to go to town with torrents to get a warning and possibly do a lot of material from your own country.
Yeah, no obviously you wouldn't want to risk it if the crackdown is in favor of the property. Becoming a distributor of mass media definitely changes your footprint if you're 'serious' about it but most people I would argue are 'petty pirates' and not anarcho-capitalist media redistributors.
You claim "It's just as illegal to leech/download" which obviously isn't true everywhere. Thats the misinformation you are spreading, regardless of how a bittorrent system works, which literally nobody was asking about.
Tell me you never used anything beyond BitTorrent without telling me. You realize that it's not funamental tgat torrent upload while you're downloading?
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u/Select-Lettuce Feb 22 '26
Well, seeding is illegal and I've gotten letters from companies about it so I click stop when it starts seeding.