oh, good times. I donÂ’t hear people talking about “leveling Fallujah” much anymore….

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from a personal perspective, i believe we need to implement more security features, for example transport encryption needs stepping up, and perhaps measures such as sharing information with trusted IPs from private trackers to prevent the M/RIAA from undertaking their sneaky shit on the public trackers.

It’s not true that I can stop my computer from uploading? I can’t turn it off? I can’t unplug it? I can’t run my torrent client in, say, a VM and reset the VM? How does cryptography help here? How does it prevent me from installing a client that lies about what it’s ratio is?

I agree there there are some who are more interested in making their content available, but the fact that they’ve put their content on BT shows they *are* interested in reducing bandwith and, so, are concernew with leechers.

The major reason for using BT is to share bandwith with those downloading/seeding.

What’s even more dubious is whether there is something like a perfect ratio and whether it would actually improve anything. If you force people to have a good ratio, even though most have asymmetric bandwidth, they’ll simply move on. There are many people who don’t really care about leeching anyway because they are more interested in making their stuff available than downloading themselves. I mean, just imagine, how would the world-wide web look like if it made use of ratios? “Sorry you can’t browse this website because you don’t have any homepage.”