[egh5oon]

> Courts don't operate on technicalities. The intent is pretty much all that matters, as long as you prove that someone intended to pirate stuff, doesn't matter what rube goldberg machine they use to actually pull it off.

You are absolutely right.

This is what enabled prosecuting the founders of the pirate bay, among other things.

The fact that files are hosted elsewhere, mangled, encrypted, cut in pieces is entirely irrelevant to the court.

Hoping that a technicality gets you off the hook is exercise in shortsightedness.

[amelius]

The point is that courts can't prove anything based on the information they get from the network.

This is in contrast to e.g. bittorrent where every seeder is in direct violation and provably so.

[Jasper_]

The same thing that takes down bittorrent users will take down this too: the network log of you typing "Pink Floyd" into OFFsystem's search bar.

This is technobabble theater by people who do not understand law nor courts.