Isn’t it dangerous for the viewers to watch copyrighted material on PeerTube? The setting “Help to distribute played videos” is activated by default on my instance. That would mean I could get in trouble for uploading copyrighted material (according to my amateur knowledge of german law). Or am I missing something?
Huh, you actually bring something up there, I hadn’t thought about. You are right in theory for sure, although at least right now, chances to get into trouble are probably extremely low. There needs to be someone actually putting forth a claim against you, without HBO or a lawyer’s office in their service actively recording the WebTorrent connections, chances are basically 0 at this moment at least.
But - I may also have some survivor’s bias here. Even before using a VPN sevice, I had been torrenting for many, many years in Germany, including seeding everything to a 1.5 ratio at least - and never got mail from a lawyer, while others I know definitely did. I think it was because I had never really been torrenting any mainstream stuff with lots of peers, but I also can’t claim, the risk isn’t there at all.
