I did read the complaint - I’m reading your post as well. Lets read what you wrote again: “charged based off of willfully distributing copyrighted content” - I don’t claim to be some admin on the site - so perhaps they were - in fact - hosting something themselves. Torrent files are *not* and do *not* contain…

They’re not making torrent files illegal. Read the criminal complaint, he’s actually being charged based off of willfully distributing copyrighted content “for purposes of commercial advantage and private financial gain”.

Oh, I have borne witness to takedown requests galore. Usually, when something big and popular like Walking Dead gets uploaded, for example, within 12-24 hours, if you didn’t download it when you had the chance, odds were you weren’t going to see it again unless you found a private host or the hash code for said…

Right, cause rape is an appropriate consequence of criminal activity that we should be supporting.

Help catch terrorist: BAD
Help catch torrent site owner so you get more iTunes profit: GOOD

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I’m glad that we can all rest easy knowing that a slight amount of corporate profit has been protected. Meanwhile, some of us have actual problems, but I guess that doesn’t matter.

Yeah, he totally deserves to get raped in prison because he helped people pirate some movies...