BitTorrent is an extraordinarily useful technology that allows for more efficient sharing of perfectly legal things like Linux distributions. Nobody's denying, though, that it's most often used to download things like Modern Warfare 2 or the latest season of Heroes. The BitTorrent census, conducted by a Princeton University senior, confirms these suspicions. It turns out that the most heavily DRM-protected content is also the most-torrented. Also, get a load of this finding: 99% of the torrents in the census were copyrighted material.The breakdown of file types reveals an interesting trend: people aren't torrenting music, which is available cheaply, reliably and DRM-free from sources including Amazon and iTunes. They're torrenting stuff like TV shows and DVDs, which are almost never made available DRM-free by legal sources. Funnily enough, most of the non-infringing content the study found was ... porn. Take the study with a grain of salt, though: it only included about 1,000 torrents, drawn from Mainline DHT.
[via Ars Technica]
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