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DracoFelis
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join:2003-06-15
| Wasn't BT designed to be easy to track?
I actually find it a little funny that people are using BT to trade illegal files. Why? Because my understanding is that BT was specifically DESIGNED to be "easy to track"! So anyone using BT to trade illegal files, is essentially putting a bulls-eye on their backs, and saying "here I am, come and get me"!
Yes, BT is apparently a well functioning P2P system. But I seem to recall that the original authors of BT planned for it to be for "legal content", and therefor designed it to be easy to track the IPs involved. This "easy tracking" is fine when you are sharing legal content (Linux ISOs for example), but it strikes me as being rather "foolish" for someone to use an "easy to track system" to trade illegal content (it's almost like asking the authorities to come knocking at your door)....
NOTE: There is still a LOT of "legal content" being distributed by BT. For example, a co-worker of mine frequently uses BT to get the latest Linux ISO images (instead of hitting overloaded FTP sites). And many people still use BT to distribute their own multi-media creations (for example, the video serial "Red vs Blue" is legally distributed "for free" on BT, by the owners/creators of those videos). | |
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| Right, right, and right! I have nothing else to add.
The move towards BitTorrent almost defines the word "fad" -- a mass movement for no legitimate reason other than trendiness/word-of-mouth. And it's self-fulfilling -- because more people flock to BT, there are more media choices (and more "seeds") and BT works better, so then more people flock to BT...
Of course, no one really cared about their privacy or the security of their own files when they all started wildly jumping on the first Napster bandwagon...
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