In an unexpected turn of events, the director of the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK has sent takedown notices to YouTube requesting its removal. The director states that he sees the streaming portal as a radicalizing platform full of hate. The takedowns are not without controversy, however, as TPB-AFK was published under a Creative Commons license.
Can someone explain the IP sharing with peers part (a popup from that site)? Sounds like a torrent, but how does that work with copyright? To be clear, I don’t give a fuck, just curious
Because it is torrenting. I clicked on the “More information” link in the popup and:
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No idea about copyright though, but I also don’t quite understand the issue there that doesn’t apply to ActivityPub itself too.
Makes sense! Thank you for looking
Is the question how does it work legally or technically?
There’s nothing inherently illegal about the service or how it works which is why it isn’t outright banned. The illegal part is sharing copyrighted material over the service and I think you could get caught doing this just like someone using regular torrents without a VPN would be.
Legally - if the content is legal to share in the jurisdiction it’s being streamed