Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Oliver wrote:

>> Different threat model than torrents. This was to illustrate that for some 
>> uses I feel little need for privacy and for other uses I feel greater needs 
>> of privacy. Different tools for different use cases.
>
> I agree fully that torrents are completely different than chats, where, for
> torrents, there is no risk at all in the USA of being convicted since it
> has never happened.
>
> But it's expensive to fight a court case, right?
> And it could be embarrassing to even fight a court case, right?
>
> So lots of people settle out of court.
>
> But nobody in the USA has ever been convicted of torrenting (there was one
> set of cases which were overturned 'cuz the lawyers lied during the trial).

Wow! Very interesting. I was not aware of that, so thank you for bringing it up.
I've seen the occasional post on torrentfreak and given the US legal culture I
was absolutely sure of it.

> Since there has never been a successful prosecution of torrenting of
> mainstream movies in the United States, the actual risk is rather low.
>
> But why bother being hauled off to court?
>