On: Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding

[hsbauauvhabzb]

In the context of a book, that could still be seeding a book every few hours..

[icedchai → hsbauauvhabzb]

1 byte per second would give you a couple of pages every few hours. So probably not.

[johnnyanmac → icedchai]

I byte pee second translates to a little over 3KB/hr. Depends on the book.

[AnotherGoodName → johnnyanmac]

It's 3600 bytes/hr. 60seconds per minute and 60minutes per hour. 60*60*1byte. Not to be condescending but the math here really isn't hard.

[johnnyanmac → AnotherGoodName]

I mistyped a letter (thanks for indirectly pointing it out, fixed) and I get this flippant response. I guess this really is reddit.My real answer is close enough, I don't need to delineate on the level of bytes.

Either way this is oedantry. My point doesn't change; it depends on what kind of book you download.

[hsbauauvhabzb → johnnyanmac]

Further, compression makes this all substantially more complicated, i imagine you could compress flat text down to extreme levels using a hashtable and leveraging book specifics (lack of Unicode characters, etc).

Either way, the argument is moot, most torrent clients set a minimum upload rate of 1-5kb/s.

[icedchai → johnnyanmac]

One page is like 2K. It would need to be an incredibly short book.

[dspillett → icedchai]

Or you would just need to be patient.