Your information about Germany is incorrect. The legal situation here is the same as what you described for the Czech Republic. You can download anything anywhere. What's illegal is making stuff publicly available, and BitTorrent uploading falls under that.
Source: was caught and got council from a copyright lawyer.
Pretty sure you can’t download either. But the fines would be very low, so instead they go after uploaders, convince the court it’s "commercial distribution", values skyrocket and for a small 1000€ fee you can make the problem go away.
ime correct: individual downloaders will not be prosecuted unless somewhat high-profile, intitutional/commercial users (vps) will only get a cease and desist. uploaders are fair game.
It also helps that it’s pretty hard to figure out who downloads. With torrents, you’ll always upload as well (outside using specific clients), with websites they have no data.
Thanks for correction! Looks like the letters sent were torrent regarded, then.
I also knew of most sites to download from were being blocked at every possible level (ISPs, landlord...), so I connected those two in a wrong way
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Your information about Germany is incorrect. The legal situation here is the same as what you described for the Czech Republic. You can download anything anywhere. What's illegal is making stuff publicly available, and BitTorrent uploading falls under that.
Source: was caught and got council from a copyright lawyer.
Pretty sure you can’t download either. But the fines would be very low, so instead they go after uploaders, convince the court it’s "commercial distribution", values skyrocket and for a small 1000€ fee you can make the problem go away.
ime correct: individual downloaders will not be prosecuted unless somewhat high-profile, intitutional/commercial users (vps) will only get a cease and desist. uploaders are fair game.
It also helps that it’s pretty hard to figure out who downloads. With torrents, you’ll always upload as well (outside using specific clients), with websites they have no data.
Thanks for correction! Looks like the letters sent were torrent regarded, then. I also knew of most sites to download from were being blocked at every possible level (ISPs, landlord...), so I connected those two in a wrong way
This is also not correct.