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by claudius 3728 days ago
> Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not.

At least in Germany, both leeching and seeding are copyright infringements as soon as you upload any data back into the swarm. Since leeching also does this (though not exclusively), it is also copyright infringement. Pure downloading is not, though, which is why streaming websites (just downloading, no uploads) are fairly popular here.

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Yes by leech only I meant downloading alone.

Well clarified thanks.