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Running BitTorrent software is illegal now?



That’s why he added:

> "It is questionable whether the monitors observed would actually have evidence of file-sharing that would stand up in court."

However, it’s not really that much more work to verify if that peer is sharing the file in question. Just request/offer few random blocks. There’s no mechanism in place to assign peers in BT network varying degree of trust.




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