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How do they figure out who participated in a torrent or not? If they joined the swarm, isn't that entrapment?



Entrapment is only entrapment if the person doesn't reasonably have a choice.

Example 1: Cop walks up to person on the street and offers him cocaine. Person accepts, that's not entrapment since the person could have declined.

Example 2: Cop walks up to person on the street and forces that person to snort cocaine at gunpoint. Entrapment, since no reasonable person could have declined.




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