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Be careful with torrents. For the first time in my life i just got sued for downloading a torrent. More specifically i was downloading an episode of a TV series that is only available in german in my country, but since i much prefer the original voices,i always resorted to just downloading it. I thought i was save, because it's just a TV show after all, also i was downloading a version not available here anyway, so i wouldn't impact any sales in my country. How wrong i was... You should really be careful with torrenting these days, in some countries at least. Maybe disabling upload altogether helps, but i wouldn't try it.


Just look into using a proxy or VPN.




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