Looking for some cool things to do on tor browser that are not illegal...

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    Download copyrighted books. It's a civil case, not a felony!

      • stevehobbes@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        That is certainly not true. It is illegal. It is often civil, but can be criminal copyright infringement based on specific criteria.

        • Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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          10 months ago

          You are not allowed to share such files with others online but you can download them and it's NOT illegal. I don't know where you live but I'm willing to bet the law works the same there. It is a law (in my country it translates to "Fair use" but I cannot guarantee that is the name in yours) that states if a media file (picture, music, video, document) was posted online, you are free to assume that the person who posted it had the (copy)right to do it. Without this law the Internet wouldn't be able to work as it does. Websites are not displayed on your monitor from thin air, your browser downloads their content automatically, caches it on the hard drive and from there it's loaded and displayed in the browser. Without this law in place, by visiting any website that contains any image, video etc. you would be breaking copyright law because those pictures etc. would download to your hard drive. This law does not apply to software.

          • stevehobbes@lemm.ee
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            10 months ago

            100% not true in the US.

            Unlikely to be prosecuted or sued, but not true.

            What country are you from?

            WTO governs a lot of global copyright issues. I would be surprised the fair use exception allows you to download copyrighted content except for a few limited fair use purposes, ie education. And with very specific guidelines as to what qualifies as fair use.

  • boatswain@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    FYI, what you're talking about is the *removed externally hosted image*; the Deep Web is different. "*removed externally hosted image*" refers to places on the regular Internet that are not indexed by Google and the other major search engines; you don't need Tor to get to them.

    • videogame [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      He's probably looking for weird cult/conspiracy/horror rabbit holes. idk if any exist on the deep web but those are always fun.

  • Mana@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    I'm old but I've heard it's dead and that everyone uses Telegram to buy drugs now

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I'm not sure if my answers will help as I have gone super deep into the deep web and not everyone can do that, which is probably natural given what I've done. I've gone far enough down that I can find places where I can randomly spectate on things like Mario Kart battle tournaments (as in I found Nintendo's stash servers).

    The other problem is, if something isn't illegal on the deep web, it's typically some generic thing like Galaxy3 that has no extraordinary aspects and is just taking advantage of the privacy, though even then people make it illegal, which is why they closed Blackbook (even the tame things on the shops are often stolen items). It's why I use it surprisingly infrequently.

    Someone here gave perhaps the best suggestion, to find lost media you can't find elsewhere. Or you can do this.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      You should probably say what it is before just sending people there. No way I'm opening something where someone says "look, but don't touch."

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        10 months ago

        That's a really good point. It's the onion link for dark.fail. It's a registry of some interesting onion sites. Not all legal to use, though, but all should be legal to peruse. (look, but don't touch). Sorry about that.