sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn't say anything about them not being allowed, but I don't see anybody posting any 🤷♀️
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It's the other way around, torrents are monitored, downloads on webpages are not (unless they use P2P streaming)
The big difference is that with torrents you also upload data to other peers, which is what fucks you copyright-wise.
Also remember kids, if you're not in the US throw those DMCA claims in the trash
If you're in the EU, downloading without uploading is also illegal, just hard to track for the copyright firms.
the magic word here is "HTTPS". Prior to encrypted downloads being the norm, it was trivial for your ISP (and presumably, the feds) to see what sites you were visiting and what you downloaded from them. With HTTPS, at best it's possible to know what site you're communicating with and how much data you've sent to and received from them, but not what the data actually is. (Unless of course the site's logs get seized, which could contain records of which files were requested by which IP addresses)
Maybe for public trackers, I've never had an issue on private trackers. But pirate streaming sites are taken down fairly frequently