What Percentage Of Bittorent Files Do You Reckon Are Legal?

[Jingthing]

This poll for entertainment purposes only. What percentage of bittorent files do you reckon are legal?

The answer will be provided at a later post. If you know the link I am referring to with the answer, please hold off on posting it or referring to it. In other words, don't spoil the guessing fun quite yet, OK?! Also if you know the answer rather than guessing, please vote Null vote, I already know the answer!, grumpy expat choice.

[seanocasey]

.3% id say that is about 1/3 on 1%.

[seanocasey]

july 23, 2010

Posted Image The large majority of content found on BitTorrent is illegal, a new study out of the University of Ballarat in Australia has confirmed. Researchers from the university's Internet Commerce Security Laboratory scraped torrents from 23 trackers and looked up the content to determine whether the file was confirmed to be copyrighted. They found that 89 percent of the files they sampled were confirmed to be illegally shared, and most of the remaining ambiguous 11 percent was likely to be infringing.

11%

[Jingthing]

Sorry to say the guessing fun of this poll idea has been soiled as as a poster has already referred to the source of the answer. The members here, like herding cats. Next ...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/only-03-of-files-on-bit-torrent-confirmed-to-be-legal.ars

I suppose y'all can discuss the issue, massive illegal content, but the fun is gone. I'm outta here!

[sarahsbloke]

89 percent definitely illegal

11 percent probably illegal

= 0 percent legal

my guess would have been 1 percent legal, but I wouldn't be bothering to download anything in that 1 percent.

[BB1950]

july 23, 2010

Posted Image The large majority of content found on BitTorrent is illegal, a new study out of the University of Ballarat in Australia has confirmed. Researchers from the university's Internet Commerce Security Laboratory scraped torrents from 23 trackers and looked up the content to determine whether the file was confirmed to be copyrighted. They found that 89 percent of the files they sampled were confirmed to be illegally shared, and most of the remaining ambiguous 11 percent was likely to be infringing.

11%

Makes sense. Why bother with a BitTorrent download is so much slower than downloading with a good download manager. Getting the real thing from a reputable distributor insures that you won't have problems with malware.

[beano2274]

Isn't Bittorrent the software to download, the files are from other websites and then downloaded using Bittorrent as an application.

[Pib]

Sorry to say the guessing fun of this poll idea has been soiled as as a poster has already referred to the source of the answer. The members here, like herding cats. Next ...

http://arstechnica.c...to-be-legal.ars

I suppose y'all can discuss the issue, massive illegal content, but the fun is gone. I'm outta here!

Some people just can't give a gut/what they think "right now" answer; instead they must google, review wikipedia, and be the first to raise their hand that they know the answer.

[canuckamuck]

On this poll you only have to guess, less than 100 percent are legal, to be guaranteed the right answer