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Originally Posted by JimmyStephans
I think the idea that they are only suing downloaders is incorrect. Many, many (most) of the Malibu Media cases are bittorrent users.
That means they are downloading AND distributing the content.
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In piracy, 'downloaders' are people who are getting stuff from sites. Be that torrents or file lockers or usenet.
'Uploaders' are the people that originally steal and upload the content.
Seeding via a torrent isn't really uploading, (I mean, it is technically) but most people probably don't even know they are uploading.
The point is that it is very easy money to blackmail torrent users as they never have to go to court. Going after the source of the problem, the original uploader is much harder technically and would require going to court. Which they don't want to do when they can just send out a blackmail letter and get cash.