Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen?

BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

In Canada there's a cap on how much you can get sued for piracy and it's all infringements combined, not per item. The cap is so low nobody ever gets sued because nobody would make any money off it and it wouldn't financially ruin me.

So they'd find a NAS with every video game ever made in all languages up to 7th gen and partial 8+9. All legacy PC games and partial archive of modern. A lot of music, and some less popular/rare video media. I mostly moved to debrid for video content outside of some stuff I worry could get lost to time while I'm alive and youtuber archives. Sacrifices of a limited budget.

Tl;dr: the max worst case scenario here is a maximum $5,000 penalty and theoretically I suppose they could tech ban me. Forbid the usage of a computer or limit it.

In reality I get the occasional scare letters from ISP and pin them to a wall like trophies. The reseller ISP I'm with is pro user and doesn't care.

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