today.reuters.co.uk— Traffic in the popular file-sharing network BitTorrent has fallen in the wake of a crackdown on piracy, but file sharers have merely shifted to another network.
Aug 29, 2005View in Crawl 4
No surprise here, pirates will just end up bouncing around the various unsafe p2p networks for awhile, until they wise up enough to use the existing secure alternatives. Such as entropy, share, i2phex to name a few.Most file-sharers should probably end up on those networks anyways, even if they are only interested in legal file-sharing. It is better not to be tracked, companies, script kiddies and other bad people are less likely to target you than if you connect to a standard insecure filesharing network. For example most kazaa users would likely be very easy targets for such people.
bitzAug 29, 2005
No surprise here, pirates will just end up bouncing around the various unsafe p2p networks for awhile, until they wise up enough to use the existing secure alternatives. Such as entropy, share, i2phex to name a few.Most file-sharers should probably end up on those networks anyways, even if they are only interested in legal file-sharing. It is better not to be tracked, companies, script kiddies and other bad people are less likely to target you than if you connect to a standard insecure filesharing network. For example most kazaa users would likely be very easy targets for such people.
imp22bAug 29, 2005Submitter
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