rieihdius said:opDYNO said:
seems like I typed some nonsense there , sorry
So all these pirated sites , why aren't they getting banned then 🤔
Not really a nonsense or dumb question.
In fact the answer you got is only like 50% correct since piracy laws are not the same in all countries.
Just to keep in mind: Piracy is considered by most countries as to copy content like a movie, software, music, etc., and then to redistribute said content by either selling/giving physical copies like dvds. Or broadcasting the thing publicly without a license, somethign like maybe playing music in some event without license. In the case of internet users: uploading the content without owning the license. Also keep in mind that buying the movie/game/music/whatever legally does not mean that the person can redistribute the content.
As example: if someone go to store, buy a star wars movie and then upload tens of Gigabytes of data to torrent users, the uploader may get into trouble depending the country in which he lives.
Now, why did I say that the answer you got there is only like 50% correct?
Because in a lot of countries piracy laws don't put distributing, posessing and viewing on the same bag. In most countries if not all the ones that have copy right laws only distributing content is highly persecuted and punished.
Posessing/storing content you did not buy legally may or may not be illegal depending on the country laws, however even in countries in which is illegal: You are NOT gonna get a tactical SWAT team at your house for downloading some music or movies, but you can go to jail or be fined if you upload Terabytes of content with torrent or something.
The main reason why many people tend to mix the whole distributing/posessing thing is 'cause in the case of digital piracy, people tend to use p2p software and p2p networks, stuff like torrent as example. Torrent apps + other p2p software share by default..
So that random kid who maybe just wanted to pirate the last cool game: not only did he downloaded the game, but also uploaded the thing like 20 times without even knowing..
About viewing: That is mostly nonsense since in order to fine or jail you for viewing something pirated, then they would have to jail like 90+% of the planet population, since most of planet population at some point has consumed some sort of pirated content without even knowing it.
About your question on that same comment: "So all these pirated sites , why aren't they getting banned then?"
They do try to block piracy sites, but the pirates just keep changing service provider, also in some cases they just go to countries that don't give a damn about copy right laws or that at least are not part of some of those international copy right laws.
u wrote a lot just to explain , thanks man 🙌🙂