Why can't they just close down all torrent sites and p2p software?

2	Also didn't they arrest the guys that built piratebay? If so, why is the website still running? website download torrents piratebay software p2p asked Nov 17 '10 at 12:22 Database 4.2k●126●157●199 edited Nov 17 '10 at 12:24

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Because its on many servers and several copies of it exist. They made sure several people had access to the site and its where abouts. So when one country kicks them out, they have friends from another country boot it onto their servers. This happened with limewire, the content is back up.

answered Nov 17 '10 at 12:35

Alastor Moody ♦♦
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so limewire works again?

(Nov 17 '10 at 12:42) Tim Fontana

Ok, say the website has moved to a different country, what happens with the domains IP?

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:12) Database

it may change it may not. it depends on the setup. normally. i think it would change. it keeps the domain name though

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:23) Tim Fontana

So the ip would of changed but the domain name stays?

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:54) Database

It's becoming more and more annoying when people think that Torrent and P2P software is illegal. Please, PLEASE, do more research than an assumption before asking such a silly question. As Hanhart said, they are perfectly legal just people choose to use them for illegal activity.

Here is a perfectly good list of legal torrenting

answered Nov 17 '10 at 13:22

recck
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Piratebay is for pirates, and pirates only.

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:54) Database

This question isn't just about Piratebay.

(Nov 17 '10 at 16:18) recck

Fair do's. But P2P software and torrents are mainly used for illegal things if you ask me.

(Nov 17 '10 at 17:01) Database

Well said. Also, most don't know, but Facebook uses the BitTorrent protocol for internal http request data management, it turns out it's the fastest internal distribution scheme so far.

(Nov 18 '10 at 04:08) Alekz

Is there a website I could read about that??

(Nov 18 '10 at 09:12) Database

Torrents and p2p aren't illegal. It's perfectly possible to build a torrent website with only legal content.

answered Nov 17 '10 at 12:42

Hanhart
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So how do you explain limewire? They closed it down because all the illegal sharing.

(Nov 17 '10 at 12:54) Database

the technologies are not illegal. what they are used for is

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:00) Tim Fontana

I understand that. But didn't they close down limewire because of the sharing? If so, why don't they get rid of all them Peer 2 peer softwares?

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:02) Database

becuase some of them are legal. they closed it down. but it costs alot and takes a lot of time to force them to shut down. then they move to another country where they do it all again

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:05) Tim Fontana

Amazing when I think about it.

(Nov 17 '10 at 13:07) Database

2	Shutting down all BT sites/programs because they're used to share software and media illegally would be like outlawing all cars and guns because they can be used to kill people. It just isn't worth it. answered Nov 18 '10 at 10:58 tsilb 21.0k●65●199●333

A lot of games and software use P2P now. It saves the company money in bandwidth getting content to your PC. They just have to send the data to a handful of customers, and they do the work for them.

iPlayer and the new World of Warcraft installer are two exaples I can think of.

You want to shut them down too?

answered Nov 18 '10 at 05:04

Eeveevolve
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You mean like World of Warcraft? Wouldn't they have there own kinda p2p for just there content only?

(Nov 18 '10 at 09:13) Database

For patches. All WoW patches are distributed Peer to Peer now. Not just one big file downloaded directly from their server.

(Nov 18 '10 at 12:00) Eeveevolve

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