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I am in Germany and want to know what practices to use when pirating. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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So me and my brother have been torrenting some games and such and we have not gotten a letter yet. So any precautions to use

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[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to point out that downloading is no longer a grey area since an EU ruling a couple of years ago. Streaming as well as downloading from unauthorized sources is plainly illegal - you're right about it being very unlikely to be prosecuted for it.

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