> I say kill off, they're still widely used, damped perhaps? I would say "delegitemized". Media companies have worked hard to convince the general public that

> I say kill off, they're still widely used, damped perhaps? I would say "delegitemized". Media companies have worked hard to convince the general public that data can be "owned", and that "piracy" is literal "theft", meaning that pirated content creates some loss they can claim as damages, thereby filling the fifth part of the legal definition for fraud. The media oligopoly wants to provide encrypted data (DRM), which isn't static (changing keys), and therefore won't scale on bittorrent. > but another part of it is faster connection speeds, no bandwidth caps in many places and the availability of cheap file hosting (e.g. via Mega). That is certainly a major part of it. That, and the association bittorrent has with piracy are why most people don't think to use bittorrent to distribute static content.