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Totally agreed Wil. I only have bt installed on account of utterly failing to work out why my new old video camera wasn't working because the ebay seller hadn't included the free software that should have been with it. I searched through the manufacturer's website for ages but could not find it.
In the end it was far less hassle to download and install bt and grab the torrent. I reckon if they were to stop torrents then loads of legitimate sites with download sections would suddenly find their bandwidth increasing massively and be unable to cope with the amount of extra traffic they would have to support.
Mind you according to Jimmy Wales isn't Hollywood going to die soon anyway.
an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes
I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I don't believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it (I particularly don't believe that a download or file shared automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don't believe ...
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