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Comment by choo-t

1 day ago

Most P2P video system make you seed only the video you started watching, thus making the point about transmitting csam moot.

If I search for The Best of Both Worlds but open the video to find it's csam and not st:tng then I've unwittingly started watching, and thus potentially seeding, the csam.

  • But even simple checks like the number of seeders on a torrent will defeat a vast majority of this problem. I would not expect a torrent with 1k seeders to be csam for e.g.

    I understand the worry, and it is a difficult problem worth thought but the alarmist virtue signalling helps absolutely no one, victims included.

    • That might work for popular culture. It's probably a good strategy if you want to watch the latest superhero movie.

      I listen to the Butthole Surfers and Amboog-a-Lard - I'm willing to bet a good portion of their material has less seeders than much illegal content do.

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