• Poggervania@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    You stop seeding because you are selfish.

    I stop seeding because I am selfish.

    We are the same.

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      11 months ago

      I stop seeding because I work for the MPA and I have finished logging all the IP addresses. We are not the same.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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          11 months ago

          It’s not hard and it’s actually quite efficient to do so. All you need is a fake uTorrent signature and a list of trackers. Just pretend you have all the parts described in the torrent file and start “offering” blocks. Every request that comes in is an attempt to illegally download a file.

          You can go one step beyond and use the torrent file to search the DHT tree for people that don’t even use trackers.

          Of course, as rights holders, these companies have the legal right to distribute parts of their content as they please. They can legally send you half a frame of video and determine you’re downloading the entire torrent quite concisely. That’d be a waste of expensive networking bandwidth, though.

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            11 months ago

            A lot of times the rights holders sell the right to enforce the copyright to copyright trolls who don’t have the rights to distribute the content.