No logic here. Don't know what was I thinking last night that I posted about this project here (stupid me!). I do regret posting it. Won't happen again. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: (Off-topic) Command-line torrent download tool > Local Time: July 25, 2017 8:07 PM > UTC Time: July 25, 2017 2:37 PM > From: eschwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > On 07/25/2017 05:29 AM, respiranto wrote: >> On 2017-07-25 03:05, Kryptxy via arch-general wrote: >>> Hi there, I"m not sure if the PKGBUILD will be accepted in AUR. I >>> had once posted a thread in open-source contributions in arch >>> formus, but was taken down due to legal issues (end of the day, TPB >>> is illegal :P). So I didn"t put effort in building PKGBUILD. That"s >>> the ONLY reason I posted about it here. >> >> As far as I know, thepiratebay.org by itself is not illegal, only >> much but not all of the _linked_ content. As an example, you can most >> likely find a torrent-link for an Arch ISO. > Probably worth noting that this defense breaks down when the project > README specifically calls out high-profile illegal content as usage > examples, though. :p > Although the AUR *still* has that torrent client which is specifically > designed to stream pirated movies via torrents, so I dunno. > (I honestly thought that that was deleted, but I just checked and it"s > still listed in the AUR!) > -- > Eli Schwartz
