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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I know we need to not discuss piracy techniques here, so I won't give details, but all of you who are looking at bit-torrents as a measure of piracy are looking in the wrong place. That is where video piracy is big but not even a flea on the back of the book market.
IRC channel DCC transfers are the volume of book piracy today. Available titles absolutely dwarf torrent listings. I suspect the reason is the much smaller size of book files compared to video and music. I don't know how to measure those DCC transfers but someone else here might?
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I'm sure one of the reasons IRC (and usenet) are often used for file sharing is because its far harder to track down and quantify than torrents. DCC shares would only be tracked by the one sharing, and only then if they so chose. usenet, to my knowledge, doesn't track at all, though some ISPs and possibly other providers may.