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zeeakzJul 23, 2010
And I am sure those 0.3% files must be the least downloaded ones... :D
doshindudeJul 23, 2010
I dunno, people use BT for Linux distros a lot.
d4rthv4derJul 24, 2010
Exactly, Linux = Least downloaded. jkz
staukenJul 24, 2010
all flavors of linux isos put together might be .3% of just the crap music the studios put out.
urmyhartbstoprJul 24, 2010
I love Linux but dude:
Quantity of Porn > Linux Distro
mattbdJul 24, 2010
The thing is that few people use BitTorrent trackers like TPB to get the torrent files for a Linux distro or other free software. I'm currently downloading the new FreeBSD 8.1 to try and I got that from the FreeBSD website, not from a tracker, and when I downloaded Ubuntu 10.4 I did the same. It's inevitable that if you go looking for Linux distros on a BitTorrent tracker you're not going to see many - you should be looking on the project's website.
syntaxgsJul 23, 2010
it need put,,,,,,,,,,,The Stop on a illeagle Down-,,Lof But that it Real Life just The Law
pfknineninesJul 23, 2010
Could not agree with you more syntaxgs. Could not agree with you more....
I think.
shillabusJul 23, 2010
I don't like putting down ill eagles either, syntax, but it has to be done for the greater good.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2010
http://translate.google.com/#
manikfoxJul 23, 2010
Legal is relative...
luke1h7Jul 23, 2010
How so?
picaloJul 24, 2010
luke. legality is represented by thought. the word chariot at one time meant the fastest and most advance piece of hardware around in means of travel...does it mean that today? NO. its relative.
just like legal.
acknotswJul 24, 2010
I would say it a bit differently picalo
reality will always trump morality and legality. And the reality is, unless they manage to change something drastically in the way the internet works, you can't stop file sharing. If they start encrypting traffic, that takes the ISP's completely out of the picture.
Also, there are lot of companies with a lot more clout than the entertainment industry that rely on the internet operating as it currently does on their day to day operations.
luxurychairJul 23, 2010
World of Warcraft patches are downloaded over BT, and there are a TON of wow players.
staukenJul 24, 2010
I put my opensource stuff on a few torrent sites and it got a cpl hundred downloads before APPARENTLY the "That's legal content" policy kicked in and the Mods deleted my software links and banned my accounts. <shrug> I'll attest to the fact they seem to run a 'no legal content' shop at the name brand ones for that reason.
jjeffers88Jul 23, 2010
With sites like mininova and the pirate bay gone, this data will be irrelevant with time. Gone the way of Kazaa and WinMX for those of you that remember those days. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
paduraJul 23, 2010
Pirate Bay is still around along with some other ones.
emitstopJul 23, 2010
And mininova is still there, they just only do legal torrents now.
goaliestr1Jul 23, 2010
kickasstorrents.com = win
Closed AccountJul 23, 2010
meeeehhh sorta
goaliestr1Jul 24, 2010
I'll take suggestions on better public sites. Been working well for me lately.
thatonegauchoJul 23, 2010
Don't forget the original Napster, the one that started it all!
amazingsteveJul 24, 2010
For the masses maybe.
diggerlaterJul 23, 2010
Torrents aren't going anywhere. A million devoted hackers will see to that.
peck3277Jul 24, 2010
@jjeffers88: If I can't find the torrent I want on a torrent site I use google to find it.
jjeffers88Jul 24, 2010
Paying 10 dollars for a newsgroup service is so much better. I work in network security at a university, the RIAA is coming down hard on torrents, especially lately. I'm not saying this without reason guys, don't know why it got dugg down so much... Give it one maybe two years, there wont be a decent torrent site around. I mean look how hard they are trying to kill the Pirate Bay as an example... and yeah mininova still exists....who uses it?
jjeffers88Jul 24, 2010
Paying 10 dollars for a newsgroup service is so much better. I work in network security at a university, the RIAA is coming down hard on torrents, especially lately. I'm not saying this without reason guys, don't know why it got dugg down so much... Give it one maybe two years, there wont be a decent torrent site around. I mean look how hard they are trying to kill the Pirate Bay as an example... and yeah mininova still exists....who uses it?
acdcfanbillJul 24, 2010
Don't you recall the first rule of Usenet?! Tsk!
youngpreproJul 23, 2010
What do they expect before?
themazzterJul 23, 2010
I think this is for all those people who say "OH YEAH WELL BITTORRENT CAN BE FOR LEGAL FILES TOO IT'S JUST A PROTOCOL". It's not really being used that way.
azuvectorJul 23, 2010
Your point? The protocol is perfectly legal, nothing wrong with it. It just so happens to have excellent uses for piracy too.
ceriliaJul 23, 2010
There are companies that use it to roll out software updates. Blizzard comes to mind.
paperbagavatarJul 23, 2010
I'm playing the FF XIV beta and the client is ONLY available through BitTorrent which is a major main in the ass since my ISP and many others throttle BitTorrent downloads just because it's a BitTorrent download.
The percentages may be overwhelming but I still don't think you should ruin a useful protocol with plenty of legal applications just because of the potential for piracy.
cl1mh4224rdJul 24, 2010
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Closed AccountJul 24, 2010
As to your pen analogy: gun laws in America. QED
sandiegodudeJul 26, 2010
Eh, it's like "tobacco" bongs in head shops.... We ALL know what they're actually sold and used for, but if you ask any of the proprietors of said head shop, he's going to tell you tobacco, and yep you can actually use a bong to smoke tobacco.
That being said, head shops and bongs have been around for a long time, and bit torrent isn't much different. It's a means to an end, but the legality of that end is up to the individual using it.
ryfiJul 23, 2010
This really does not prove anything. I have downloaded plenty of games via BitTorrent that are copyrighted while away from home at college. However, I legally purchased the game a while ago and own the disks at home, but forgot to bring them to college. Although I am downloading a copyrighted game, I already own the games. How do these studies know that the people downloading these movies and games do not own them legally and are making copies?
appleofdischordJul 23, 2010
Likewise... how many people still have their original Windows XP installation cd?
themazzterJul 23, 2010
Some users don't even get them. I didn't even get one, but luckily the restore CD I got was able to install plain vanilla XP as well if booted from.
Of course I built my most recent PC thus got a "normal" install DVS this time. Just another advantage of building.
thanatosstJul 24, 2010
I do. Somewhere around here....
boneheadfarkerJul 23, 2010
They don't. But that's not the point. Fair use never comes into the equation with these people, so in their eyes you should have gone out and bought another copy of the game.
injunjoJul 24, 2010
Back in the stone ages, I bought a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 on 5 1/4" floppies. I installed it and later decided to format my massive 40 mb drive. When I went to install the Lotus again, it would not work because I was supposed to have "uninstalled" back to one of the floppies. The company would not replace. So now I use freeware always. But, I guess Lotus is gone now. So no, even back then fair use was not honored.
shark72Jul 26, 2010
Remember, the article is referring to people who are seeding. It's tough to claim fair use when seeding a commercial game if the game publisher hasn't given you permission to redistribute it. While there may be edge cases (abandonware, shareware, etc.), I don't think that's what he's referring to.
Fair use doctrine is powerful stuff, and it's an important part of copyright law. But unfortunately, too many pirates believe it does more than it actually does.
sickloveJul 23, 2010
Then game companies should all create services like steam. People like you would have no excuse to pirate then.
Closed AccountJul 23, 2010
I would f**king love it if all game, music, and movie companies had something like Steam. I wouldn't pirate at all if that were the case.
anothrnbdyJul 28, 2010
I would rather just have all my games consolidated on one service than spread over many different services.
kantenJul 23, 2010
Perhaps if the companies would actually use a standard service. Everybody seems hell-bent on creating their own version of Steam instead of just using Steam.
crewbie4lifeJul 24, 2010
I would love to see Steam update which adds a music player into it. Then you could change your music in game without alt-tabbing. That would be amazing!
johnfluxJul 24, 2010
mm, I would also love a movie version of Steam.
I could actually grab movies at 1MB/sec and watch them while they play.
crewbie4lifeJul 24, 2010
YEA! I like this Idea as well. Valve? Are you taking notes?
kleon777Jul 23, 2010
You aren't actually "making copies" if it's not directly from the original. You're still illegally downloading, and it's very likely that other people are leeching off of you.
ceriliaJul 23, 2010
I just wanted to note that you never own a game, just the license to play it. So I would assume that downloading games you bought earlier might be still be copyright infringement? I'm not sure, does anyone have insights into this? Also, if you upload while downloading, as proper torrent etiquette requires, then you are sharing copyrighted material with others, most of whom have not purchased the game as you have.
I remember the discussion of people downloading TV shows when they pay for TV, but would rather watch them on their computers. The issue with that is that you could be storing the show on your PC for later use, but then again a DVR would be guilty of the same thing. It all just seems like a very large gray area to me.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
kantenJul 23, 2010
"you never own a game, just the license to play it."
When did Bobby Kotick get a Digg account?
trunk8Jul 23, 2010
They don't care if you own legal copies of the software, if you are downloading an illegal copy then you can be targeted. Especially with BitTorrent, since you are also participating in the distribution of illegal software to other people (unless you are a leech that disables upload altogether, which undermines the entire concept of BT). I agree with what you're saying, but unfortunately owning a legal copy of the software doesn't protect you.
ryfiJul 24, 2010
when ever I have done this at school I always set upload to 0. I know it defies internet etiquette but schools can be just as zealous as companies.
mrquackerJul 23, 2010
Technically, what you are doing is still illegal.
tnoyJul 23, 2010
If you're using bittorrent, you're uploading content to other people. You're distributing copy-written material without authorization, which is illegal under the current interpretation of copyright laws. Owning a license for the software means _nothing_ in this case. When it comes down to it, the only thing that matters when talking about the legality of a torrent is who owns distribution rights. If you buy a game/cd/movie/etc and create a torrent of it and 100% of the people that download it own it, you're still breaking copyright laws as they stand.
Now, if you download it using a P2P service where you do not upload any content _at all_ then you would likely be able to get away arguing fair use. The big players have only really been going after people for uploading content; they do this because a copyright infringement case has proven very easy to win.
You're only safe on a 'moral' level, not on a legal level. It will remain like this until copyright laws are updated to reflect the past 20 years of innovation.
This will continue until copyright laws are rewritten to reflect the past 20 years of innovation.
danconiaJul 23, 2010
Yeah. What Ryfi said.
morpheousmartyJul 23, 2010
That is still illegal though. I don't agree, but those downloads were still part of the 97.7.
jjeffers88Jul 24, 2010
When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has 17000+ downloads on a given torrent site... I bet about .03% of those people own the game. Thats $850,000 lost revenue, 700,000 if you be extremely positive about the number of people that went out and actually bought it. People abuse torrents, that is why it is a problem. If you knew that you worked on a game for 3+ years and a million dollars of your work went out the window you would be pissed too. Writing games isn't fun, its hours of long work weeks sitting in front of a computer screen filled with thousands upon thousands of lines of code....Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
taylorsplJul 24, 2010
It's only lost revenue if the people were going to buy it but didn't. Maybe if their job isn't rewarding they should change careers.
"Publisher Activision continues to toot its own horn over the recent release of Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare 2 with new figures for the first five days of sale, revealing a "new worldwide estimated five-day sell-through record" of $550 million."
Taken from: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/61298 back in 2009.
$1 million dollars is less than 1 percent of what that game sold in 5 days back in 2009. I'm sure the piracy is really killing their business model.
qxrtJul 24, 2010
I believe you are deluding yourself if you actually believe that the majority of people torrent stuff that they already own...
addiktionJul 28, 2010
Do they consider tv shows illegal because clearly it's legal if you own cable. I hate dealing with ads and its much easier to just download my favorite shows with them already removed then using clunky software to remove them myself. -Lazy Lard
shroomtimeJul 23, 2010
I only download those files in the 0.3%. Anything else is illegal and I am a law abiding citizen!!
titobobJul 23, 2010
Don't call them illegal -- they're undocumented </s>
acardwell3Jul 23, 2010
Dugg for Law Abiding Citizen.
decimitJul 23, 2010
That was a decent movie until the end. Good thing I didn't pay for it. :)
Closed AccountJul 24, 2010
i see what you did thar.
ceriliaJul 23, 2010
Will they be sent back to Mexico? :X
swordedgeJul 24, 2010
Not only that, own beach front property you want to sell me cheap!
jtotheoeJul 24, 2010
I BACKTRACED IT
paduraJul 23, 2010
0.3% is unexpectedly high.
lordskywalkerJul 23, 2010
Keyword is "confirmed". If I already own a copy of Matrix on dvd and download it for play on a laptop, is that file illegal? Maybe for somebody but not for me.
rudegarJul 23, 2010
in most countries it is illegal for you too
even if you have the dvd and take a backup
offrdbanditJul 23, 2010
Especially if you are sharing at all.
ceriliaJul 23, 2010
Does anyone have a link to some information about this? I would like to learn if this is still considered copyright infringement, and if so, are we allowed any backups at all?
Closed AccountJul 23, 2010
This is how it works, technically you are allowed 1 backup but it is illegal to break encryption which is required to copy a movie (but not audio) so when you use fair use or some other movie copying program you are breaking the law.
Next issue. Technically you are allowed 1 backup but if you damage said original then you can no longer retain the backup.
Although you own the DVD, you only have the rights to view said movie or listen to said song on the given format. So ripping a song from a CD to listen on your MP3 player is illegal.
Last issue, Downloading in Bittorrent is a double edged sword. You are acquiring a file in a format you are not licensed to own and operate. The other edge is that you are also uploading while downloading so you are now an illegal distributor. That is why if you get caught, the damages are so high. They can claim that you gave to all 3,000 peers the the tracker and so rightfully you owe them that much x the individual damages.
acknotswJul 24, 2010
duewydo, that is probably the most well laid out example I've ever seen of the total insanity that is today’s copyright laws, well done.
Always remember people, the stories you hear about involving bittorrent are almost always going to involve distribution, not the downloading itself.
Closed AccountJul 23, 2010
For me, it's more a matter of... Illegal? Yes. Unethical? When I have already paid for the content, and I feel that the people who produced it were adequately compensated, I sure as hell don't think it's unethical. I mean, let's say a RHCP CD I own gets scratched, and I download a replacement. Do I feel bad? f**k no, it's not like the RHCP did not receive monetary compensation from me.
tnoyJul 23, 2010
If you're uploading the content while/after you download it, yes it is.
Making a copy of a DVD is fun from a legal standpoint. It is legal to make a copy of a DVD (fair use protects this), but its illegal to bypass the CSS encryption (under the DMCA). The person making the copy of the DVD would be guilty for voliating the DMCA and be guilty of copyright infringement for distributing it.
digg2point0Jul 24, 2010
I've always wondered about that... What if you pass the CSS encryption in a legal way?
i.e. you hook up the output of a DVD player to the input of a capture device and record it from the DVD player?
cerebronJul 24, 2010
DMCA is a joke law, we should all ignore it, like speeding and killing.
swordedgeJul 24, 2010
The RIAA calls it illegal and if you were to rip your DVD and make a copy for your own use, the RIAA would call that illegal too. The greed of those people astounds.
Closed AccountJul 23, 2010
You mean 89% don't you? That 11% figure was based on it "likely infringing". I'd call that a statistical error that should have been taken into account in the headline since the headline makes it sound like all bittorrents except 0.3% are illegal.
Although I do like it that it also mentions that those who do p2p are more likely to purchase what they download.
bigviJul 24, 2010
Requires honesty which isnt the RIAAs strong suit. Both studies were industry funded.
rodneyws1977Jul 23, 2010
Well, how many are confirmed to be illegal?
zombiesocietyJul 23, 2010
Exactly. .3% means absolutely nothing unless there's a number to put with the other 99.7%. If we're talking about eight files, .3% isn't very impressive.
thegreat0neJul 23, 2010
maybe you should read the f**king article.
fifteenstepperJul 23, 2010
1. Be a power user
2. Submit an article that states the obvious
3. ???
4. Profit!
oldmantimeJul 24, 2010
1. Be a power user
2. Re-host content on a blog spam site you set up.
3. Have your power user friends digg your articles.
4. Rake in ad revenue.
5. Repeat steps 1-5
6. Profit.
mobixxJul 24, 2010
From now on i will bury every single one of power user's articles on digg
arkielJul 23, 2010
Which indisputably confirms that there are legitimate uses for BitTorrent. Which will hopefully preclude it from being challenged or damaged under the more moronic provisions of the new international copyright agreement.
basicnh21Jul 23, 2010
So...a little more than average.
tomgfromcanadaJul 23, 2010
haha
gotbannedagainJul 23, 2010
In other news, the sun rose today.
urgozJul 23, 2010
Has anyone been to Mininova since they went legal? Yeah me neither.
mrquackerJul 23, 2010
Mini what?
I moved to a private tracker. Selection isnt as big, but the speeds are damn fast.
spazattack5000Jul 23, 2010
0.3% of former users still go there.
scabnabbitJul 23, 2010
Current Demonoid stats:
Uploaded: 524.54 GB
Downloaded: 388.64 GB
Ratio: 1.35
I love me some linux distros!
Yeah...
tsothaJul 23, 2010
"They found that 89 percent of the files they sampled were confirmed to be illegally shared, and most of the remaining ambiguous 11 percent was likely to be infringing."
This submission is very misleading. Eleven percent is a huge margin of error when you start throwing numbers like 0.3% around, especially since it's almost impossible to prove something isn't copyrighted. Also, I suspect in that 89% you'd find things industry claims are illegal but in fact are not illegal - things like parodies and short clips.
richmondphotogJul 24, 2010
These kinds of numbers are always partly made up, IMHO. Next, some industry analyst would claim that they are losing trillions of dollars. How's that? Because each download is a lost sale. We all know that if downloading wasn't an option, every one of these criminals would be buying their products. But of course!
r1ckg4rc14Jul 24, 2010
The AMV Hell clips come to mind. Do they use copyrighted songs? Yes. Do they use clips from copyrighted videos? Yes. However, the files in themselves fall in the parody spectrum - hence, making them completely legal.
mandarinJul 23, 2010
What surprises me is that there are legal files there...
greevarJul 23, 2010
I have to call bulls**t. Did they download and examine every single file offered on those trackers? I think not. Also, copyrighted doesn't mean its existence on BitTorrent is illegal. And this "likely infringing" statistic sounds more like, "we don't know, but we'll assume they are". Such a claim is pure bias and scientifically dishonest. The fact is, there's is no way to empirically determine how much unauthorized content is available compared to that which is authorized. Any attempt to measure such an arbitrary statistic is just an exercise to sway public opinion. It's like trying to measure how much someone like the color red.
tnoyJul 23, 2010
You should take a statistics class sometime.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2010
He said how much someone likes the color red, not how many people like the color red.
Quality vs. quantity.
Also, the sample size was taken randomly from "the most active seeded files" which is not a truly random sample.
genmaJul 24, 2010
READ. if you had rtfa you would have found that they downloaded a completely unbiased sample of 1000 files from a grand total of 23 trackers, which clearly represents all the torrent traffic of the entire internets. flawless statistics like this can't be denied, I mean how much more than 1000 files could there be?
everybody knows there are only like 30 trackers in existence, all linking to illegal files of course, those .3% of legit transfers were probably just amateur videos of cats and/or babies doing funny things, that were too big to fit on youtube.
greevarJul 24, 2010
Your comment is just as biased as this statistical study. In a word: very.
nburgJul 23, 2010
Color me not surprised
bivariateJul 23, 2010
Well duh !! Was this research really necessary ?
More analysis indicates 100% of the money spent on this research was wasted.
murxJul 24, 2010
Their method is totally biased:
They took ONE tracker, what tracker?
piratebaytracker or opensourceprogrammerstracker?
Guess what - on one of those you're more likely to find so called copyrighted stuff.
They took the torrents with most seeds. So the most popular stuff will show up there - most of it copyrighted.
They added nothing 'new' to the picture.
If someone thinks 'Bittorrent' itself is the problem - I say, no, TCP/IP is the problem! See, without that every copyright infringement is stopped. So kill that instead.
(Do I need to add /s ?)
doublebaconsodaJul 23, 2010
I downloaded the entire internet on one of those torrents. Now I am god!
brainflakesJul 23, 2010
Add this one to the legal pile
http://digg.com/tech_news/Yes_Men_Use_BitTorrent_To_Avoid_Censorship
jasonlimanJul 23, 2010
Yesterday I was on Craigslist and found out BitTorrent is hiring UI designer in SF.
trunk8Jul 23, 2010
They don't care if you own legal copies of the software, if you are downloading an illegal copy then you can be targeted. Especially with BitTorrent, since you are also participating in the distribution of illegal software to other people (unless you are a leech that disables upload altogether, which undermines the entire concept of BT). I agree with what you're saying, but unfortunately owning a legal copy of the software doesn't protect you.
fcrowJul 23, 2010
0.3 % wallpapers?
sittinsidewayzJul 23, 2010
I could have told you that, and bypassed all the unnecessary "research" that was conducted.
Closed AccountJul 23, 2010
Bittorrent is used primarily for copyright infringement, I won't deny that. But then, it's an effective method for distributing large files of any kind. What, are we gonna ban distributing large files over the Internet?
digg2point0Jul 24, 2010
RIAA/MPAA say yes.
thesuperpenguinJul 23, 2010
This is the least shocking thing I've seen on digg in my life.
grammerpantsJul 23, 2010
Only 0.3%? It's really that high. Wow, I'm impressed that, that many people use it for legal purposes.
mizuhochanJul 23, 2010
I only use it for anime and I'd buy it if they would release what I watch.
And put decent subs on them. I have a ponytail moe.
And not charge ridiculous amounts for 3 episodes.
finalstrikerJul 23, 2010
Not Surprising they Have Rat in their name.
mspencer712Jul 23, 2010
99.7% of files exchanged on BitTorrent have had their use challenged in court, giving their users a chance to establish an affirmative defense? That IS newsworthy.
jmd2121Jul 23, 2010
ClearBits has more legal-to-share torrents than the entire sample they chose.
http://twitter.com/clearbits/statuses/19376523247
salinungathaJul 23, 2010
I see the Institute for the Blindingly Obvious has opened a campus in Ballarat
dignan666Jul 23, 2010
Define: illegal torrent.
lolbertarianJul 23, 2010
s**t someone has copyrighted and is not receiving royalties for it's production and replication.
hydesJul 24, 2010
thats not a torrent thats the file the torrent links to, nice try though
lolbertarianJul 24, 2010
Semantics dips**t. You know damn well what it means.
faust1200Jul 23, 2010
"The large majority of content found on BitTorrent is illegal, a new study out of the University of Ballarat in Australia has confirmed"
Wow, they're doing some great work at the University. Personally, I'm waiting for their science department to confirm that water is indeed wet.
hydesJul 24, 2010
well that is interesting, the content found on BitTorrent (.torrent files) are illegal. i didn't know people copyrighted .torrent files
wilywondrJul 23, 2010
Illegal according to the FUBAR US copyright laws. I know, I know the US has gotten most of the rest of the world to "buy" into this definition of what a copyright entitles the copyright owner to.
It will not last much longer.....ask the RIAA.
myztryJul 24, 2010
It's not as simple as "buying" into copyright.
Things like the DMCA are backdoored into our legislation via duress using instruments like the "US Fair Trade Agreement".
Frankly anything which uses duress and bypasses legislative protections are dubious at best. Even when they are injected, these so called "agreements" breach existing laws.
fullbackJul 23, 2010
The problem here is the definition of "legal."
For 100 years, relief for a copyright holder for infringement was a civil action, not criminal. It was never a law enforcement issue.
travelsonicJul 23, 2010
I gotta question this study.
How do they determine what is illegal and what is not, get their data, etc?
Yeah, I know, you're gonna say "It is illegal because it is copyrighted!," well, Linux, and Firefox [for example] is either copyrighted or using a licensing scheme that uses copyright, and are legal to share. It is not copyrighted or not that determines illegality, it is copyrighted and being shared without approval/permission of the copyright holder.
That is a big difference.
doshindudeJul 23, 2010
Doesn't make the protocol any less legal, nor does it change anything about the content available over the protocol.
yage2006Jul 23, 2010
Shocking!
eh123Jul 23, 2010
Oh no, but how will I download linux distros and public domain literature?
trcoolguyJul 23, 2010
I was surprised that .3 was legal. That's a lot!
unzornJul 23, 2010
"Additionally, 16 files were of ambiguous origin and 91 files were pornographic, which were unclear due to their oft-mislabeled nature. "[M]any files were tagged as amateur (suggesting no copyright infringement) but further inspection revealed that they were in fact infringing," wrote the researchers."
I'd want to be that inspector
rushnerdJul 23, 2010
STOP RIGHT THERE 99.3% TORRENT USER SCUM
gdj11Jul 23, 2010
OMG bit torrent is illegal? I had no idea! I better stop using it!