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by yayr 820 days ago
scheme 1: agents for copyright holders continuously scan for IP addresses who host copyrighted content and start legal actions.

scheme 2: criminal groups infect copyrighted content with malware to exploit downloaders of such content.

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Neither of those are against the bittorrent protocol itself. Lots of software like Ubuntu is legally available on bittorrent, and I've never seen anything done to restrict that.