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How many more lessons do you need that centralization of information leads to centralization of control?
by scrod 15y ago
How many more lessons do you need that centralization of information leads to centralization of control?
- seqastian 15y agoYea people needed to learn that filehosters are not a replacement for real p2p the hard way I guess
- dangrossman 15y agoWhy seed a torrent day and night, linking your actual IP to the infringement act, when you can just upload a file to a bunch of file sharing services on a cafe's wifi and post a link on a forum? If your goal is to illegally distribute files without getting caught, real P2P seems like a suboptimal choice for now.
- Zirro 15y agoThat's why you use a VPN-service, which doesn't keep any logs.
- loopdoend 15y agoI don't know of a single VPN service that doesnt keep logs, they might not log the sites you visit but they all log which customer has which IP at which time.
- Zirro 15y agoI trust my VPN-provider when I ask them explicitly if they keep _any_ logs at all, and they reply no. They are not required to do so by law (yet, at least), where I live.
- gst 15y agoPeople won't really care. They just use whatever is easiest for them. When central storage sites are shutdown other mechanisms will be used for sharing. But why bother as long as it works? You're not locked into a particular site, so there's no reason to use other approaches just because something might happen.
- slig 15y agoThey way I see is that people who upload pirated content to those websites aren't doing for a cause. They do it because they earn "points" when the file is downloaded by a free user. Then, they can use those points to create premium accounts, that can be sold easily.