alt Hacker News> And if mere downloading and reading of copyrighted material were legal, how come torrent users have been fined for it in the thousands?
Because torrenting includes redistribution, since you also upload to other peers
> And if mere downloading and reading of copyrighted material were legal, how come torrent users have been fined for it in the thousands?
Because torrenting includes redistribution, since you also upload to other peers
However Meta is engaged in multiple legal cases about them torrenting copyrighted material. And they bring the reasonable defense that they might have been caught torrenting, but were not specically caught seeding/uploading. For all anyone can prove they could have blocked all uploads from their torrent client
It will be interesting to see if any of those cases reach a judgement on that point, instead of both parties just settling