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Tiny group of pirates responsible for most of unauthorized file sharing
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article published on 25 January, 2011
Spanish researchers at the Carlos III University of Madrid have posted interesting results today in regards to filesharing.
The researchers say a tiny fraction of users are responsible for over two-thirds of all content published, and over three-fourths of all downloads.
Using the names, ISPs and IP addresses of uploaders and downloaders to 55,000 torrents published to Mininova and ... [ read the full article ]
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lissenup2
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25. January 2011 @ 16:15 |
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And it's these losers that should be exiled to a small South Pacific island...........kinda like Jack Sparrow was.
I'm tired of gettin' the shaft for leechers.
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25. January 2011 @ 20:30 |
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Originally posted by lissenup2:
And it's these losers that should be exiled to a small South Pacific island...........kinda like Jack Sparrow was.
I'm tired of gettin' the shaft for leechers.
I'm kinda thinking you didn't actually read the article.
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25. January 2011 @ 22:58 |
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Yeah...it essentially says that 100 people are doing something like 50% of all torrent file sharing, and they are spending so much time doing it that they never have time to use any of the thousands of things they pirate every day. They are basically unpaid archivists...and their wasted lives should be punishment enough for just about any crime.
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Mysttic
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26. January 2011 @ 08:54 |
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Yeah...it essentially says that 100 people are doing something like 50% of all torrent file sharing, and they are spending so much time doing it that they never have time to use any of the thousands of things they pirate every day. They are basically unpaid archivists...and their wasted lives should be punishment enough for just about any crime.
But what court would take these findings at face value? None. At least not until they stop taking the big corporations opinion on how much profit loss they have due to piracy at face value with no evidence.
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26. January 2011 @ 09:50 |
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Originally posted by Mysttic:
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Yeah...it essentially says that 100 people are doing something like 50% of all torrent file sharing, and they are spending so much time doing it that they never have time to use any of the thousands of things they pirate every day. They are basically unpaid archivists...and their wasted lives should be punishment enough for just about any crime.
But what court would take these findings at face value? None. At least not until they stop taking the big corporations opinion on how much profit loss they have due to piracy at face value with no evidence.
They will get bored eventually lol
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26. January 2011 @ 13:10 |
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I actually find this news to be a bit surprising. I really thought that the masses were doing much more than that.
I wonder if this is propaganda. They could use this to make the governments crack down on those 100.
Hmmmm Yeah, a bit surprising.
Oh, Im sorry... Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?
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Hopium
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26. January 2011 @ 13:20 |
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that just data collected from posted torrents on public sites. you and i both know people who post on TPB do not generate the content or distro it from day 0. these noobs just have scene access and just retag or repost as their own. P2P is garbage and so is this article.
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26. January 2011 @ 13:31 |
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Originally posted by Hopium:
that just data collected from posted torrents on public sites. you and i both know people who post on TPB do not generate the content or distro it from day 0. these noobs just have scene access and just retag or repost as their own. P2P is garbage and so is this article.
Agreed. There is a network of people but guess where the content comes from the people that make it in the first place. Think about it and the Pirates are the bad people LOL, i think stupid people hire em :P
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Interestx
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26. January 2011 @ 15:19 |
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Yeah yeah yeah, sure.
....move along everybody.
Nevermind the thousands of threatening letters sent out by law fims in th UK alone, it's really only around 100 greedy people going incredibly over the top about it.
so f*** them they deserve every stunningly excessive cruel and unusual abuse of the law coming, right?
So when you hear of lives being ruined over sharing a f***ing old film or album take no notice, who cares, eh?
Several hundred thousand $ for something that can be bought for $3.
That's consistent and appropriate, huh?
What a load.
Can you say 'campaign to shape public perceptions@?
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27. January 2011 @ 14:20 |
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Meh make attempted porfit off of distribution a crime not mere distribution itself.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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Tristan_2
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28. January 2011 @ 09:42 |
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It actually makes you think if the majority of the users on BitTorrent or other Peer-to-Peer sites are the media companies putting their movies,games into the system.
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Interestx
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28. January 2011 @ 17:13 |
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Originally posted by Tristan_2:
It actually makes you think if the majority of the users on BitTorrent or other Peer-to-Peer sites are the media companies putting their movies,games into the system.
I'm absolutely convinced that it is becoming part of the advertising media.
It's the only way 1/3 or 1/2 film releases make any sense.
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29. January 2011 @ 22:47 |
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Most films Ive seen in the last 10 years are rubbish its no wonder no one wants to go to the cinema and just download it to see how rubbish it really was if they had wasted £10 to go to the cinema to see it.
If film companies started offering refunds if not satisfied when you leave the cinema (personally i think thats a great idea although hard to stop those who wish to defraud) maybe then people would stop downloading illegal movies!
Same could be said of all the rubbish x-factor music out there!
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pulltech1
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30. January 2011 @ 23:09 |
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so 100 uploaders upload 67% of files, are selling ads to advertizers, and then downloading 75% of files downloaded. Gee, these numbers dont make sense. I guess lotsa people browse the sites but seldom download, but are viewing ads around uploaded content to see what has been uploaded? Maybe the researchers reported the results wrong. Oh, and I regularly visit Mininova to see their legal files available for download, that my Linux machine wont play.
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31. January 2011 @ 03:19 |
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I think what they mean is 100 people are responsible for the original upload of the files.once a file is uploaded to a torrent site aslong as 1 person is seeding its downloadable.if each of the 100 people uploaded 100new torrents each a day once each torrent has been downloaded and being seeded there will be 10000 new torrents a day.in theory they could be right,in reality they probably made up bogus numbers.
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