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I know. But it's not illegal to look up stuff from TMDB. It only becomes a problem if the copyright holder already has your IP address, knows what you've downloaded, and also subpoenas a list of addresses you've visited, which could provide them with additional evidence that you did in fact download their IP in a court case against you.
"See, Judge? He downloaded Shrek 12: The Enshrekening AND he also downloaded movie posters and a plot synopsis from TMDB for this same movie, which proves that he was in possession of our property."
If they don't already have evidence that you've "stolen" from them, a TMDB query won't be evidence of anything useful.
It's pretty easy to get flagged for illegal downloads with torrents, but almost impossible to do the same with usenet downloads.
How does the usenet work exactly?