I really makes me wonder when I see someone saying that you should issue a DMCA to a torrent site... Now that there have been more than a few server take downs, many torrents only host links, and there is nothing illegal about a link, even if it points to copyrighted material. Storing or transferring it knowingly is illegal. All they have to do in most places is claim the did not know, and prove they did not store it outside of RAM. The info is on someones computer, and proving that they don't own the rights to it is not so easy. I have filed more DMCA's than I care to count and run into this first hand, and there is nothing you can do about it if the server does not store it in many areas. You might think better laws would help, but none have really helped yet have they.

As far as the isps stopping it, how are they going to do that? If you have any experience or knowledge of the amount of data that goes threw an isp you would know that it is a daunting task to look for one thing let alone millions.

There is a reason that the governments sue large isp's for certain info, and that is because you can't sort that much info live anymore.

Look up G.987 fiber optics throughput, let me save you some time, 10+ gig a second per fiber, and there are fiber optic cables in the US with 14,000 strands per bundle between PONs. If you know of a computer that can process that much info (exabytes a second) you found one part of the solution that is missing, just one.....

Most people have no idea how much traffic you merge into when you hit go in a browser.

I am all for stopping the pirating, but there are logistics involved would require a huge investment that someone has to pay for. The best thing to do is just ignore them. I know that sounds odd, but is unfortunately the best way to deal with them. Others have mentioned Dongles, etc, and the past has proven that the cost of producing them was an even greater loss than not even bothering. Besides, any investment you do in that area is passed onto the customers that pay to buy it, which passes the cost and the frustration to the people you didn't intend too in the first place.

Maybe someday there will be technology that will help, but to date there have been more that hindered than helped.

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