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by gigawatt 5420 days ago
Don't they treat seeding the same as uploading?
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By uploading I also mean seeding
Aren't they technically the same thing? Either way, you're uploading bits to someone else, right?
Wouldn't making the initial files available be slightly worse then uploading partial bits?
Sure, but in the eyes of the law, you're still guilty.

To pick a random horseman of the infocalypse to draw an analogy from, importing drugs into the country is arguably worse than selling them on the street corner, but both are illegal.