alt Hacker Newsthe tool itself doesn’t change anything from the ISP’s perspective. It just fetches metadata and opens magnet links. What matters is what you download, where you live, and how your torrent client behaves, not whether you clicked the magnet in a browser or a terminal.
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caminante • today at 10:20 AM
The subject is movies (cough copyrighted), not Linux distros.
This is an important caveat to raise for someone experimenting.
To your point, it's the upload that gets you in trouble in the US (assuming possession is not illegal in itself)
I think the issue is the lack of disclaimer/warnings in the CLI, unlike what most torrent sites do. These sites are very considerate, e.g. for YTS
> Warning! > > If you are not using a VPΝ already: Accessing and Playing Torrents on a Smartphone is risky and dangerous. You may be in [City, Country] and using: () . Your IP is [IP] . We strongly recommend all users protecting their device with a VPΝ.
I couldn't find anything in the CLI, at least from that gif.
Someone who is new or less "experienced" in this might not be aware that they need to use a VPN or similar, since the CLI makes it so easy to search and download. Even you are an experienced user, you may misread and start torrenting by mistake before connecting to VPN.
One could argue this is a serious bug.