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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
I'm amazed how many people point out that rapidshare, megaupload etc. are not torrent sites, even though I never said they are.
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Originally Posted by Grimm
Other torrent sites like Demonoid or ThePirateBay do not operate off portal software like Limewire nor do they have central servers that can be shutdown (and ThePirateBay is not US based, therefore the US courts really can't touch them). All you need for them is a torrent client such as uTorrent. Everything is spread out amongst the peers/seeders without going through any centralized servers. Turn on PeerBlock, load up uTorrent, and good luck to anyone trying to stop you.
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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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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
People would start using the address bar.
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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
That's the point - how would they learn what to enter in the address bar? If you enter anything but proper URL, it's used as the search term and goes through the same search as if you entered it into Google, so results with rapidshare in them would be filetered out as well.
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Even if that isn't what you meant, it is what everybody thought you meant.