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Chicken/egg problem... as mentioned by someone else above... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779341 > New
by latchkey 3y ago
Chicken/egg problem... as mentioned by someone else above...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779341
> New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.
- fluoridation 3y agoIt's possible. I never follow new releases. But back in the ed2k days, I'd say about half of just about any file you cared you search for was fake, regardless of age.
- grepfru_it 3y agoYou are what’s called, an edge case. A statistical anomaly. While that is great, you are far from the norm and not the target of this product (or even this particular thread :)