https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkkFT1bRCT0 ( everything you need to know about torrents)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/sunday-review/internet-pirates-will-always-win.html (actual article)
Tristan Cilley
2W
The editorial’s central claim is that Torrenting and piracy are bad and should be looked at like a giant game of whack a mole, for example if anything were to happen to the source of torrents like the pirate bay then the internet would just do what it does best a create a new site to feed the demands. Also gives examples of piracy and perspectives on it.
EVIDENCE:
“In the arcade version of Whac-A-Mole, the game eventually ends — often when the player loses. In the piracy arms-race version, there doesn’t seem to be a conclusion. Sooner or later, the people who still believe they can hit the moles with their slow mallets might realize that their time would be better spent playing an entirely different game.”
In my opinion I think that torrenting is getting a bad reputation from piracy and is actually a very valid and useful tool for electronic distribution. There is nothing inherently illegal about torrenting. The problem is Piracy, and the fact that there is not an obvious way to stop it for the same reason stated in the article above. Some people justify their illegal downloading habits by saying that the people they are stealing from won’t miss the money because they are rich anyway. Also many of these people know that there is an extremely low chance that they will get caught and have to face repercussions. The only solutions that have been produced have been overpowered and blunt. The equivalent of threading a needle with a sledgehammer, (aka doing more harm than good). Overall, torrenting is good, piracy is bad, and there is no clear solution for the growing problem.
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