• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        Torrents are metadata files, they’re absolutely hosted on websites.

        They only describe how your BitTorrent client can initiate the p2p connection, they obviously don’t have the actual data that’s shared, only info about that data.

    • Spotlight7573@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Or the ISPs in this case. They want the information about the pirates to use them as witnesses to show that the ISP didn’t terminate copyright infringing users, even when notified dozens of times and to show that the ISPs benefitted from these practices by retaining them as paying customers.