[mani04]

Quoted from article: "The question is, however, how long this will last..."

I hope people do not link this to promotion of piracy straightaway. I hope there are also enough legal torrent websites that come up, so that the government does not see torrents as illegal and start acting against it.

It is only the content that makes a torrent legal or illegal. The concept of torrent is fantastic.

[DarkLinkXXXX]

What piracy? I'm not a pirate. I'm just downloading multiple terabytes of Linux ISO's each month.

[mani04]

Ofcourse you are not a pirate :)

But the article ends with a note on piracy, which is irrelevant in this context. Also most people think that torrent means piracy, which is wrong.

[anonbanker]

I find myself doing exactly this myself, if only to anger my ISP (Shaw Communications), who likes to throttle bittorrent connections. I also force my apt-get dist-upgrade and emerge -eaUDv world downloads exclusively over Tor and I2P throughout my enterprise for the same reason. I'm positive I set off red flags and waste precious resources to monitor my download habits, hopefully diverting attention from others that need that anonymity and privacy more than I do.