Comments on: McAfee: Number of Illegal File-Sharing Sites Up 300%

By: Info, Law, IP & Ethics : File Sharers: Are they really criminals?

Info, Law, IP & Ethics : File Sharers: Are they really criminals? — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:57:07 +0000

[...] To date, BitTorrent, a file-sharing program, uses 35% of all internet bandwidth. That doesn’t mean that 35% of all internet usage is illegal. However — a great deal is, and file sharing doesn’t seem to be decreasing any time soon. [...]

By: D.AN

D.AN — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:45:40 +0000

You are a very retarded commenter responding to another random comment.

By: guest

guest — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:55:07 +0000

You're not "F'CK"-ing the government out of money, idiot.. You're fucking artists, producers, and labels out of money. Lets hope they all crash and die, so we can be left with shitty music! Yes, what a great idea.

By: taechery

taechery — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0000

Way to go McAfee. I vow to boycott your products and services for all of eternity now. Die!

By: Que

Que — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:11:43 +0000

Never trust anything McAffe says or does. They were the only AV provider to have definitions for the Netsky/Bagel viruses a few years back. They had them weeks before the outbreaks as well according to virustotal.com. Not only is their software sub-standard, but they seem to be perpetuating their own job security.

By: William

William — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:58:09 +0000

When the report is prepared by a member of the Business Software Alliance, there is definitely a conflict of interest.

By: Flugal Binder

Flugal Binder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:24:32 +0000

I know a flaw in this research too -

It is complete nonsense.

Why in god’s name would anybody open 1,100 sites and then shut them all down again inside 60 days?

Answer: They didn’t.

By: DevilManEd

DevilManEd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:38:05 +0000

GO FILE SHARERS!!
WAY TO F’CK THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MONEY!!

LONG LIVE THE P2P!!!!!

By: File Sharing felling Record Companies? « Bread you should have been prepared for

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:02:10 +0000

[...] the security technology company, has released its threats report [pdf], detailing the 300% growth in illegal file-sharing sites since [...]

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:07:57 +0000

There is, however, a flaw in the study I can see right away. It assumes that the sites themselves actually host and distribute the content. Since the study explicity names BitTorrent as an example, then their definition of distribution, I think, is flawed. It presumes that, for example, the content is distributed by ThePirateBay. Anyone who knows a reasonable amount about BitTorrent will quickly realize that this is false just based on the architecture of BitTorrent.

BitTorrent sites don’t host the content. Hash values, yes, content, no. The same can easily be said for another form of distribution which has gained in popularity over time about one-click hosting blogs. The blog itself does not host the content. It hosts a link to a page on a major service that happens to be storing it.

There’s only one popular form of distribution that is accurately described in this study and that’s FTP sites. Someone on an FTP site can post content on a centralized server, then another person can download directly from that server.

Even usenet operates on a multi-server basis where content is populated over several servers around the world.

Asside from that, interesting stuff.