Hi guys, I just wanted to call out an inappropriate term I’ve seen used sometimes: Civil Disobedience. It’s not just civil disobedience when you pirate something privately, you need to do it publicly and dare the authorities to do something about it.
So an example here would be to set up a massive leech party and advertise it specifically as civil disobedience. Say all manner of things from all manner of copyright holders would be transmitted, and try and get news coverage. That’s civil disobedience.
Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.
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Leeching probably isn’t civil disobedience. Maybe even seeding things for preservation’s sake isn’t.
But wouldn’t seeding popular/current things be civil disobedience?
You must do it “loudly”. You have to seed in front of the prime minister, or get the news to cover you doing it, and put your real name out there.
The definition I see says it’s just…
So…I think you’re wrong in this.