[Shop-talk] tv in the shop

[John Miller]

On 8/14/2014 12:44 PM, Doug Braun wrote:
> Did you try "torrenting"?
>
> it works for my daughter...

Yes, but...

a) You will find a lot of content out there, some legally there, much not.

b) Trolling for copyright violators on BitTorrent trackers has replaced 
ambulance-chasing as the lazy lawyer's revenue generator.   It's 
essentially extortion-as-Nigerian-spam, and while they may not ever get 
any money out of you, your ISP doesn't like getting those letters. 
Though if your taste in downloads runs toward 'Well-Oiled Snap-On Girls 
#26' they might get a good laugh out of the video titles.

c) Therefore, if you intend to step into the torrents, even if you are 
intending to download only content you *believe* to be legit, you may 
want to find a good encrypted tunnel service (preferably one that at 
least credibly claims not to keep any logging e.g. 
privateinternetaccess) to use just to prevent mistakes from becoming 
takedown-letter-bait.

John.