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Old 11-09-2012, 04:19 PM   #261
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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious View Post
It's worth the effort because it's quick. Because it's easy. Because the risk is essentially nil. This is why uploading files is something like a sport for some people, or so it seems to me.

If you have to write and debug efficient malicious code and perform criminal actions to get the files to upload, it seems unlikely to me that many people will continue doing that for "fun"...
It doesn't have to be efficient, and many people consider writing software to be fun. People wrote viruses for "fun" for years (though I believe nowadays many viruses are written by criminal organisations for profit). Of course, it doesn't have to be for fun. Apparently there are massive collections of ebooks on the torrent sites ("every book by author X"). If they were no longer available for free, there might be a profit in selling them cheap. After all, people currently sell illegal copies of software, why not do the same with ebooks?
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