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It would likely happen in Germany, unless you have a VPN. This has been a problem for years when torrenting films. Chasing people with fines has been a lucrative, automated business for years.

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films are not books, though.

They are, you just have to turn the pages really fast

They are copyrighted material just the same

Assumes the copyright holder is looking at the peer list for these torrent. (Books) Which I doubt.

It's not the copyright holder doing the work in either case, but a cottage industry of legal trolls.

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