On 02/01/2019 20:42, Paul wrote:
David B. wrote:


I firmly recommend that you avoid Torrents completely - before your
activities are brought to the attention of the security services.

You do realize you can do stuff like download perfectly
legitimate Linux distros via torrent, right ?

Yes, I *DO* know that. :-)

Torrenting is used to reduce the cost of distributing
Linux to end users.

I cost me NOTHING to download Linux Mint WITHOUT using Torrents.

There is no "automatic guarantee" that a torrent user
is a street criminal... Much as you'd like to think so.

It's good to hear that you recognise that "street criminals" *DO* use
Torrents.

I do NOT use Torrents.

I read he
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv...r_crime_1.html

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Did you know you could "steal movies" via USENET ?

No, I did NOT know that - but nothing surprises me nowadays.

Of course you did.

AS I've just said, I did NOT know - nor do I care.I do not "steal
movies" - I either watch them on normal TV, in a movie theatre or via a
DVD which I've either paid for directly or borrowed and paid for from my
local library.

More recently we have subscribed to Netfix and done a little 'binge'
watching of past series like Breaking Bad, The Bridge and Luther!

A binary server, a block account,
a source of headers, automatic download tools, and so on.
For example, one person admitted to automatically downloading
around 1TB of stuff that way... in a single month. Basically,
his broadband connection pulled posts at max_rate for the
entire month, and those were all movies. You don't have to
torrent them. He probably doesn't even know what movies
he got.

That sounds as if it was an illegal action. I trust it wasn't YOU who
did it.

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David B.