[Dylan16807]

> They both give you what you need to get the file.

I can give you what you need just by telling you to torrent f09c8d0884590088f4004e010a928f8b6178c2fd

That's even less than a hyperlink. It would be absolutely ridiculous to say that I'm publishing the torrent.

[Gigachad]

There is nothing logically different between providing a .torrent file and a magnet URI. They both point you to the file.

If sharing .torrent file is illegal, then so is the magnet. The court doesn’t care about “Um technically there is a DHT in the middle here”.