• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    plenty of legal uses of the protocol. whats different here?

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    Grande doesn’t explain why or when developers of torrent clients should be held liable for piracy. Popular torrent clients and sites that distribute this software are typically content-neutral and don’t actively encourage piracy. That is similar to the defense Grande relies on.

    just graspin at straws it seems

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      Plenty of legal uses. For example, it was legitimately faster for me to install deluge and torrent Ubuntu than it was to just download Ubuntu.

      There’s so many other legitimate uses, but that’s the main one I used it for

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        Same with large academic datasets. You can’t rely on most academics to maintain their work past publication, nor to have machines capable of serving that much data in one go.