Comments on: Let’s All Screw America Up Even More!: Why Free Downloads Suck

By: About TECH - Wasted Weekly

About TECH - Wasted Weekly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:01:17 +0000

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By: James

James — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:10:45 +0000

I will say I am very disappointed in Coed for actually posting this article. It clearly has no research behind it and the author has very little knowledge on the subject based on their rant. First off to download all of the specified programs in two hours would be impossible and if it did happen I would love to know what type of connection they are using. Secondly identity theft is rarely done through any sort of p2p networking and when it is done it is very easy to catch the person. Also clearly “most people” are not being screwed by torrents since The Pirate Bay, the top bit torrent website, is in the Alexa top 100 websites. As far as your Government comment goes that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Go research the DMCA and all the Copyright proceedings the Supreme Court has heard. It is sad to see that a website that usually has interesting articles would let trash like this get posted.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:52:19 +0000

Gee…unresearched shit just blabbed on a blog? Who knew? My confidence in the knowledge gained by reading blogs is forever shaken.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:48:31 +0000

Wow, this really is a poorly researched article. Not only are you almost completely wrong. But there is even software out there to protect you from getting screwed. There is software to prevent the wrong people from looking at what you are doing. And there is even these crazy things called Firewalls, anti-virus protection, there are even programs to protect you from adware and spyware. Granted it it not 100% effective, but it does prevent downloading things from the internet being like having unprotected sex with a hooker.

By: justin

justin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:33:37 +0000

this doesnt really make sense. if your using torrents to get say 2 grand in free software and your main point here is that torrents are risky on the internet, but ur friend lost 2,000 plus an email and a 9 digit number, but then got it all back a few weeks later…
fucking torrents are awesome. any given day i’m worth like 800 buck at best. fuck it if someone steal all of it and my worthless SSN. I just got a bunch of free software, music and porn. Not to mention, it IS all illegal (see George’s comment..) and i had it coming.
So what if i have to work a couple months to get my shit together, cause that wonderful “russian roulette of the internet” will be right where i left it so i can get back all my programs and porn.

By: George

George — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:23:03 +0000

There are so many things wrong with this article im just going to list the basics.

First of all Limewire doesn’t use torrent technology at all, its just straight p2p.

Second, while the programs themselves are legal for legitimate purposes, the files you listed are in fact copy right protected and illegal to download.

And finally the government does care, they do prosecute people that infringe on the copy right laws, but often times they are not shared from a server within the country and there is very little they can do.