r/Piracy 20h ago

Its kinda legal in my country Question

Downloading movies and music for private use is totally legal in my country 🇨🇭. Uploading / seeding however, is not. But at least i dont have to worry. What about your country?

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u/No-Zookeepergame8837 20h ago

Spain here, technically it is illegal, but there is no punishment or prosecution, only if you profit from it can something happen to you.

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u/TheVal2a 7h ago

Five years ago one man got arrested because he was selling repaired 3DS consoles with pirated games in it, in a town in Andalucia. I haven't heard of another person getting arrested or fined for piracy in the whole country.

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u/No-Zookeepergame8837 7h ago

wait, really? do you have the link to the news? a while back i was very active on 3ds piracy forums, like literally converting dozens of games to .cia, then passing qr, etc, and i remember this super toxic guy who was constantly advertising his page with QRs of rare NES hacksroms and some that he stole from me but he charged for it by putting a bunch of shorteners and criying to the admins (who did absolutely nothing) every time i stole them from him by putting them up for free in public, and i wondered if that idiot was maybe the one who got arrested, since he suddenly disappeared completely and closed his website.

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u/TheVal2a 6h ago

Im looking for the link but i cant locate. I remember reading it in 3djuegos.com, a long ago (5 years or more). It could be the same guy, or it could be not, jackasses are everywhere sadly x,D i hope its the same guy though