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by watty 4481 days ago
The MPAA already has the ability to view torrent seeds, why would they waste so much resources to create this?
2 comments

Binary blobs running on user boxes can collect direct, identifiable, evidence. Spying an IP address from afar that may or may not be proxied/NAT'd is flimsy circumstantial evidence at best.
Honeypot, but that doesn't hold up since torrenting movies is so wide spread already.
But just in time for TPP deliberations.