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My two cents worth...
Piracy on the large scale, such as loading copyrighted material and making it available for the entire world to download, is not going to be helped by this service.
However...
Piracy on a small scale, however, will be greatly facilitated by this service. For example, John Q, Public decided to provide a copy of the famous monster movie Tweedledee The Wonder Mutt Vs. Tiddles The Wonder Cat to his sister Jill. John uploads his movie, and provide the download info to Jill. Jill downloads the file, and tells John she is done. John then deletes his file. The file has been passed on, on a small scale (1 person), and there would be extremely low risk to do it. Even if the download information was passed on, there is no longer anything to download. It is automating the sneakernet...
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