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by jimsimmons 732 days ago
Why is everyone acting like this is some radio active data.

If you don't distribute further, it should be pretty ok to download and play with this?

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Kindly recall the predicament of Aaron Schwartz that led us to this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

He broke into a network though
If you download a torrent, your client will offer to upload pieces for other clients to download.
You can choose to not seed further or set your upload levels to zero
It looks like you don't understand how torrenting works and what "helping by seeding torrents" means.