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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I've been downloading films and TV shows for years and I never had problems with viruses. I suppose that it would depend on the website, but if the comments are positive and you don't do something stupid like downloading a zip file, you should be safe. You can see the names of the files in the torrent and you can select which to download.
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Yes, talk of torrents having viruses is over-inflated. The risk is no worse than anything else on the internet, really.
This was a great article. Pretty much sums up my frustration with DRM.
This "you're buying a license to use it only in these highly restricted ways" stuff is B.S. I purchase DRM'd content a the price of a rental only, because that's what it is.
I'm even more cranky about books than games and movies, because off all formats, I'm most likely to re-visit a book over and over again over the years.
At the heart of it, in the case of Amazon or Apple, it's also anti-capitalism at its worst - the whole concept of basically locking you into only their store for purchases. Ick.