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Infamous file-sharing-network search engine The Pirate Bay is at work on new software that's designed to help it evade state-imposed internet censorship, sources claim. According to an article on file-sharing blog TorrentFreak, the notorious torrent-mongers are developing a client that will create a distributed, peer-to-peer …

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: It's a question of trust

      "The Pirate Bay is a web site which thinks nothing of facilitating the download of illegal content "

      As far as I can see very little that the Pirate Bay hosts is "illegal content" - in the UK at least. I guess the Anarchists handbook and some of the more extreme porn might be technically illegal. but thats a tiny percentage of the content.

      If you mean that the copyright might be infringed in some juristictions by some content, then sure - but its NOT illegal to just download or stream it in most countries including in the UK - it is only illegal to distribute (upload) it...so if your torrent client is set to zero uploads, you are good to go...

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    2. Andy Gates
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      Re: It's a question of trust

      Ads?

      I'm a bit surprised that anyone savvy enough to torrent isn't savvy enough to adblock.

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    Congratulations

    They just invented Gnutella.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Congratulations

      Gnutella is effectively dead and you rarely hear about it anymore, because it is a P2P dinosaur. BT is far richer and more secure, including encryption, and it wouldn't even need new infrastructure, just another layer like and/or magnet links.

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