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The most common use of a butter knife is not murder.
by tspiteri 14y ago
The most common use of a butter knife is not murder.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoMy most common use of torrents is not piracy.
- gyardley 14y agoWell, sure, but 'my' != 'the'.
- nodrama 14y agoeach person should be judged individually. When you punish the whole group... that's just communism.
- dr42 14y agoa minority view, I am sure.
- metafour 14y agoThis is what I was wondering about on a greater scale. Do you happen to have a link to recent statistics that show this is the case for torrent traffic in general?
- jlmendezbonini 14y agoI found two studies from 2010: one by a Princeton student[1] and one by the University of Ballarat (Australia) [2]. Both of then found that the vast majority of bittorrent traffic, not surprisingly, is illegal and both were heavily critiziced. I quote: "...89.9 per cent of them were illegal and, of the remainder, 8.2 per cent was porn."[2] "Overall, about one percent of the total files were categorized as "likely noninfringing."[1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/01/bittorrent-census-about-99-of-files-copyright-infringing/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/01/bittorrent-census-ab... [2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/only-03-of-files-on-bit-torrent-confirmed-to-be-legal/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/only-03-of-files-...