"Police believe that despite this, the files are still circulating." The quality of journalism is pretty awful these days. I can't believe someone would feel

"Police believe that despite this, the files are still circulating." The quality of journalism is pretty awful these days. I can't believe someone would feel qualified to write an article, especially one that came out today, without explicitly knowing that, yes, the files are most assuredly still "circulating" via torrents.