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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
How do people find the torrents though? Through Google. What would happen with sites like rapishare or megaupload, if Google started removing pages containing links to them from search results? What would happen with torrent downloading?
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Actually, Google is the last place I'd look for a torrent (that tends to lead to way too many dodgy sites), and if you're downloading a torrent you're not accessing Rapidshare or Megaupload, you're taking the file from someone's computer just as they're taking files from yours. That's the basis of the P2P networks - sharing your files with your 10 million closest friends.
RS, MU and the rest are mainly used by membership-only sites who code their links so that the Google spiders don't pick them up. Google could remove the torrent links without affecting filesharing at all, so that's why it's not a big issue. And if a filesharing forum goes down, it usually reappears under another name with the website server now located in a less restrictive country.
Filesharing websites are found, usually, by word-of-mouth if you are on a forum where the information is discussed. It helps if you are a regular on the site, people are more likely to give you the information. Sort of like finding a speakeasy in the Roaring Twenties, I'd imagine.
Then, of course, there's always Usenet. It would be very difficult to shut that down.