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Originally Posted by 6charlong
Something I can't understand in these discussions. Supposing I stole someone's book reader. Why would I want to upload their books to Torrent?
And if I wanted to download a book from Torrent, why would I want to choose the Harry Potter book with someone else's name stamped on it? I think I'd want one of the older ones that had nothing of the sort attached. It seems foolish to pick one that shouts: Thief!
Never having used Torrent I don't know the answers to these kind of questions but the whole premise of this thread just all seems kind of illogical to me.
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And part of the idea of a digital watermark is that you don't see it, unless you're specifically looking for it. You'd never know it was there if you simply just downloaded it.
PS, your use of the word "Torrent" is a bit off. The service is "BitTorrent", but but how it is designed, with no central server, you don't really search and download in a traditional manner. Anyone can make a torrent (which this is actually the correct usage of the term "you use a torrent", or "download from a torrent", with torrent not being a proper noun), that anyone else can use. You get a file that has the info on where to connect to, and you download parts from everyone else who is downloading, or has downloaded. Also, please don't think of all things on bit torrent as being illegal. There are many torrent trackers (websites that offer the torrent files for searching and downloading) that offer only legal content. BitTorrent technology is actually built into many legal game and movie subscription movie services, because it helps lower hosting costs to the company (instead of having one giant server and connection, you can have a half dozen that are a fraction of the size and cost, and the end users see no difference, plus some companies also offload some of the hosting onto their customers, so you use less bandwidth. Smaller systems, smaller connections, and lower bandwidth usage). Many open source projects use it to distribute their works as well.