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.

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[–] xye@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a torrent

Because it is torrenting. I clicked on the "More information" link in the popup and:

PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server. The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance's BitTorrent tracker as long as you download or watch the video.

Source

No idea about copyright though, but I also don't quite understand the issue there that doesn't apply to ActivityPub itself too.

[–] xye@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Makes sense! Thank you for looking

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is the question how does it work legally or technically?

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] xye@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Legally - if the content is legal to share in the jurisdiction it’s being streamed