Re: [Trisquel-users] Popcorn-Time wishes you merry gravmassssssssssss

[chris]

lI'm not a lawyer, but your understanding of the technology, risks, and the  
law is probably misguided. BitTorrent is not illegal (anywhere that I'm aware  
of anyway) and criminal copyright infringement is aimed at operators of  
commercial businesses profiting off of copyright infringement (in the US an  
generally speaking). You would really have to work at it to attract the  
attention of law enforcement (ie you would have to setup / operate a linking  
site, run a file sharing service, upload torrents relating to copyright  
content you don't have the right to distribute to a forum and actually that  
is probably more likely to attract civil attention I think, etc) in other  
words.

Short of that your only talking about a civil matter. Chances are you would  
call up a lawyer in a civil case and have them negotiate a settlement. Maybe  
at a cost of $5,000-$10,000 USD. The majority of that would be to cover legal  
fees and the actual settlement would probably be under $1,000 USD-but at  
worse probably $8,000 USD. However that's a worst case scenario as the risk  
of being targeted by copyright owners is extremely small. Your probably more  
likely to get hit by a bus than be targeted for civil copyright infringement.  
There simply are so many people doing it and I'm not even sure that's an  
approach being taken right now by copyright owners. At least not enough to  
make the news much these days.