Quote:I don't know, one of my posts was basically a how to guide on illegal pirating while using a proxie to hide the crime. haha  thats post is now "some things are better said in a PM"

 

Meh, it's all "kiddie play" as far as I'm concerned.  A proxy isn't perfect and is not very efficient.  What is illegal at this point is the site(s) hosting the content.  It would be pretty hard to prove that you intentionally tried to download copyrighted content, but it's easy to prove that you are hosting it.  However, if the content is "hosted" on several computers across the internet, there is really no one "source" of the content.

 

That kind of gets back to my "legal vs. ethical" comment that I made earlier in my post that got deleted.  Just because certain content is illegal to distribute, it doesn't make it illegal to receive it.  If you are redistributing the content, then that's when it becomes illegal.  That's pretty much how torrent works.  However, you can set up your computer (or other device) to "receive only" and not upload anything.  At that point you are not breaking any laws.  Doing something like that though is not ethical.

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