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Anyone else worried a list of all your torrens is kept in one place and can be tied directly back to you via you Credit card, unless you pay via bitcoins. They

• genu1 13y ago
  I am. Anyone know details about the founders? Are these guys trying to make a statement, or out to make a buck? In which case, selling the data about its users would be a great monetization model.
  • gcb0 13y ago
    Like it matters... It could have been founded my mother Theresa. It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays, by the truckload on their heads.
    • sillysaurus2 13y ago
      It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays How are DMCA requests inherently abuses?
      • pritambaral 13y ago
        Because DMCA makes itself easy to be abused. Off the top of my head, I can remember Microsoft asking Google to take down results to OpenOffice[1]. The first Google result for "DMCA Abuse" reveals this:[2] [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/microsoft_dmca_takedown_requests_targeting_openoffice/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/microsoft_dmca_taked... [2] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse EDIT: They aren't "inherently" abuses. They are easily used as such.