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Discussion on: How Does BitTorrent Work? a Plain English Guide

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Cristian Baluta

I'm wondering if people still pirate things now that we have all this paying services. I know that i tried to get photoshop from filelist (which was supposed to be the best) and waited few months. Or if i tried new movies they were all fake. I find the technology good for large file transfers, wetransfer could implement this in their client, instead wasting space on the server it would be nice to send only a link to my local file.

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Dmitrii Baranov

You just need to know where to takes those things, as simple as that. And quite often it's much more easier to pirate it comparing to the legal ways. E.g. I'm living outside the US, hence I don't have 100% of movies on Netflix, more than half of them is simply not available in my country due to copyrights and other legal bs. At the same time I have to pay the same amount of money as Americans do, but get much smaller library. Sounds unfair to me. That's why I use Popcorn Time which is the same Netflix, but free and with no limits.

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Okoye Chikeluba Paul

Depends on where you are from and which search engine you are using. Many countries and ISPs block piracy sites and it is rather difficult to find them with a Google search as Google also blocks them and websites that link to them.