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justaman | 2 years ago

> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streaming of twitch, netflix, ABC-XYZ +, and social media. Piracy making up even 5% of global bandwidth usage is being overly generous.

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Moldoteck|2 years ago

are you sure downloading of cop material is illegal? In a lot of countries it is permitted as long as you do not distribute that content further

HideousKojima|2 years ago

And even in the US merely downloading is usually only a civil and not a criminal offense

jerf|2 years ago

Might be able to get to 24% if "illegal downloading of copyrighted material" includes porn.

TeMPOraL|2 years ago

It'd probably stay the same if you excluded everything other than porn from your calculations.

tomashubelbauer|2 years ago

But in many jurisdictions that would still be completely legal as long as you didn't share the downloaded content with others.