Piracy in Germany often uses direct downloads via one click hosters(you get an url and download from there, people use services like rapidgator.net). These often get hit with copy right strikes and are slow to unusable for free users. Would downloading for example a TV show via this route and then creating a public torrent “good piracy”? (If anyone has a guide on how to create a torrent, pls share)
Reasons why I think it might be not so good:
- the groups/people need a motivation to provide the content. Distributing it without their consent might reduce their motivation. They also probably paid for some subscription to get the content
- in german context direct download links are often considered safer for people who just want to download, torrenting done wrong can get you pretty high legal fees (500+ €)
- it feels like stealing somebody elses effort
Why I think about doing it:
- this gives people another way to get the content
- torrents are free to use and way faster than those one click hosters (which often give you less than 100kB/s)
- the uploader usually profits via affiliate programs, so when someone buys a premium subscription of a one click hoster, they get a share. I think piracy shouldnt be done for profit
- people (especially outside germany) might have it easier to access torrents instead oneclick hoster solutions
- torrents have no captchas lol
German releases by OCH groups are already shared widely through Usenet and private torrent sites, as OCH is such a big source of pirated content in Germany.
So yes, you’re free to share OCH releases to public sites. ZeroTwo releases usually include subtitles for all available languages so they might’ve a wider appeal than german-speaking countries.
Make sure you’re VPN & torrent client is properly set up, i.e. you’re torrent client is bound to the VPN interface.
I personally stick to private torrent sites as there’s less eyes on them given them being relatively small [1]. With so few people torrenting in Germany the speeds aren’t always great though. That’s why I mainly use Usenet.
[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2
Thanks, this is what I was looking for. Kinda how the expectations and “rules” around this are.
Some OCH groups might actually take issue with their stuff getting shared around, but there’s no way for them to restrict it. Scene is in a similar situation, where they want releases to stay in their circles but they get released to trackers & usenet anyway.