Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not?

Steve@communick.news ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• gravitas@pie.gravitywell.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It doesnt matter if you just store them for private use, it only becomes a crime if you share them, if someone else has the same file (hash) then that means you shared it, otherwise no way to prove anything illegal happened

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    if you download a file (not via BitTorrent), your downloaded file will have the same hash as the person who shared it with you, but that doesn’t mean you were the sender.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good to know. Doesn’t change much

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