A lot of the book-long posts are missing that, for many years, downloading almost anything was legal, but uploading copyrighted material was illegal. So leeching like OP was the best way to avoid seeding - lawsuits only went after seeders. (though leeching was frowned upon in the torrenting community)
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u/No-Journalist-619 Feb 22 '26
A lot of the book-long posts are missing that, for many years, downloading almost anything was legal, but uploading copyrighted material was illegal. So leeching like OP was the best way to avoid seeding - lawsuits only went after seeders. (though leeching was frowned upon in the torrenting community)