I know here we are talking about Japan, and I am not familiar with Japan stance on Downloading / Uploading and copyright violations.
But here in Mexico, you can download all you want, and last time I read the law, as long as you did stuff "not for profit" you could also distribute digital content.
(of course I always say that, here in Mexico it is illegal to murder people, kidnap and whatnot, and look at how much they prosecute people that do that [95% of crime goes unpunished in Mexico [1]])
Civil liability in many European countries and in USA too seems the real risk. Seed a torrent from home with wrong content and get nice "blackmail" letter from some lawyer... Go to court and end up paying thousands if not hundreds of thousands on some extremely bizarre calculations.
But here in Mexico, you can download all you want, and last time I read the law, as long as you did stuff "not for profit" you could also distribute digital content.
(of course I always say that, here in Mexico it is illegal to murder people, kidnap and whatnot, and look at how much they prosecute people that do that [95% of crime goes unpunished in Mexico [1]])
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/violent-crimes-rise-mexi...