KingAustin
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First of all, just want to point out that this has nothing to do with asking anything about finding torrents or anything related to sites, just so this thread doesn't get locked.
I'm in college and am on the college's networks, as well as everyone is within the dorms. If someone gets caught torrenting, they are sent a warning first, then a 2nd warning results in a few week ban. One of my friends was caught at the beginning of the year downloading a copy of a game for the game cube (not sure why), and it happened to be a tracked torrent, so he got a letter, just said he deleted it and all was ok. However, now the interesting part. He never finished downloading the file, as it was stuck at 99.0%. As far as I know, this makes it not illegal to have possession of because it's an incomplete file, meaning it's just a bunch of useless bits.
So my question is, does anyone know the actual legal stance on this? I'm really hoping the law would favor the accused since it's not copyright material, just a bunch of bits which can't work together. Feel free to throw in your opinion as well.
I'm in college and am on the college's networks, as well as everyone is within the dorms. If someone gets caught torrenting, they are sent a warning first, then a 2nd warning results in a few week ban. One of my friends was caught at the beginning of the year downloading a copy of a game for the game cube (not sure why), and it happened to be a tracked torrent, so he got a letter, just said he deleted it and all was ok. However, now the interesting part. He never finished downloading the file, as it was stuck at 99.0%. As far as I know, this makes it not illegal to have possession of because it's an incomplete file, meaning it's just a bunch of useless bits.
So my question is, does anyone know the actual legal stance on this? I'm really hoping the law would favor the accused since it's not copyright material, just a bunch of bits which can't work together. Feel free to throw in your opinion as well.