Therefore, our advice is for you to buy an up-to-date cable descrambler from your cable TV company….

Rhett

Banning torrents because they _can_ be used for illicit content is just silly.

By your logic, we should also ban the ftp protocol as well, since it is also widely used for illicit content.

In fact, peer-to-peer transfers with instant messengers and DCC’s with IRC can also be used for illicit content, so lets ban all of those to.

Guess what! There’s a lot of illicit content using the http protocol as well! So lets ban that too.

You can find illicit content on the newsgroups, so lets ban the nntp protocol.

You can even get illicit content through mail-reply servers like in the 80′s. We’ll have to ban pop3/smtp/imap4 too..

In fact, any protocol you can use to transfer a file, can be used to get illicit content, so we’ll have to ban _ALL_ file transferring protocols, so that just leaves us telnet.

Hmm, no wait. We used to use Z-modem and uucico with telnet connections, so we can transfer files with telnet too, so we’ll have to ban that.

Bottom line, is the tcp/ip system itself, is designed for transferring data. Only way to be sure would be to ban the whole internet itself…

Your position is stupid. The torrent protocol is on par with the ftp protocol and other protocols.

I suppose if someone gets shot and killed, you think it is the gun’s fault too?

Get real, and take your head out of your ass…

– Smoovious