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Yea people needed to learn that filehosters are not a replacement for real p2p the hard way I guess


Why 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.


That's why you use a VPN-service, which doesn't keep any logs.


I 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.


I 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.


They 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.


People 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.




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