downloading video content copy for personal consumption without owning original is legal in many European countries, uploading/distributing would be very different matter, let alone software
that's certainly not truth in many EU countries and one of the reasons is because downlaoding is legal, so DDL is king, heck even I pirate since 90s and started to use torrents just in recent years, until then was downloading all my movies/TV shows legally from DDL where are illegally uploaded by someone else
> But no it isn’t legal to download content that wasn’t authorized to be uploaded.
wrong, it's legal to download/stream video content for your personal usage and you don't need to care about any authorization, that's problem of the hosting provider and uploader, you as downloader are off the hook
Even when you’re not “seeding” completed downloads, the segments you have are available to other downloads. Many clients also have the ability to downgrade an downloaders ability to get segments if you are not reciprocating.
> 11. Am I infringing copyright if I watch a movie by streaming it instead of downloading it from the internet?
> Films, series, etc. can be downloaded or streamed online thanks to various websites (services) that offer this content legally. *However, users can also obtain this content thanks to various online file-hosting services and websites with embedded videos, which do not have the appropriate authorisation for this kind of communication of works to the public.*
> *Users are not liable for copyright infringement in the case of downloading or streaming the work for their own personal use* — based on the private-use exception and the three-step test.
Three isn't "many", and you're wrong about Spain and Slovenia anyway, Spain requires you to copy the work from a personally owned legitimately obtained copy or for the original to be made legally available online and is subject to the terms not prohibiting it.
The Czech Republic is the only country where what you said could be considered in any way accurate, and their copyright law on this isn't especially compatible with their European treaty commitments and will unquestionably go away at some point.
Perhaps you should consider checking your sources instead.
