You are only downloading metadata, and csam content is filtered. But yes, I would also rate it as a legally risky activity

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IlikeKitties 3 days ago | parent [-]

> csam content is filtered

Filtered how? By some keywords I don't want to know? What about encrypted zips of CSAM? There's no way to filter that in reality.

If you want to learn more about why and you can either speak German or can handle youtubes auto translate i recommend this documentation on the matter[0]. The Pedo Criminals are using scene methods to share their illegal content.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndk0nfppc_k

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knowaveragejoe 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Would it matter if it's metadata-only until you download?

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wongarsu 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, a simple keyword list in the classifier, matched on the torrent name and file names. Easy enough to find in the source if you look for it. That filter won't help against people uploading CSAM as documents.7z. But any filter that would want to do something against that would require downloading the content, which would be even more illegal (in addition to being wildly impractical)

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jasonfarnon 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

why not just exclude encrypted zips?

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wongarsu 3 days ago | parent [-]

bitmagnet only has the info you get by looking up the infohash in the dht, which is basically the same info that's stored in a .torrent file: a name, a list of files with offsets and paths, and a bunch of block hashes. That's not a lot to go on, and e.g. doesn't tell you if the zip is encrypted

I guess you could filter all torrents that include just zips/rars/7zips. That would exclude a lot of harmless content. Probably too much harmless content to make it a default, but if you only care about hollywood releases it would be a useful filter

If there was a public list of hashes of (8/18KiB blocks of) CSAM content that would be useful for a filter, but I don't think such a thing exists

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IlikeKitties 3 days ago | parent [-]

> If there was a public list of hashes of (8/18KiB blocks of) CSAM content that would be useful for a filter, but I don't think such a thing exists

But wouldn't that just be a list of CSAM to look up?

	▲	baobun 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hence its public absence.