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Originally Posted by Robbie
yes gideongallery you ARE pulling numbers out of your ass. Not one of those numbers can be proven in any way shape or form. I will repeat... the ONLY person who knows the numbers are the people that own the torrent site. Period.
And despite their bravado, they are facing a lot of legal issues. They are one international law away from getting nailed and they know it. So they aren't gonna tell you their real stats.
And "the study was done by a university professor using sumotorrent data"
Really? A "university professor"?
Think about that Mr. Wikipedia. I can go over to the local community college and get a "university professor" to say something too.
Or better yet, I could just write my own stats, post them, and give credit to Professor Jones (or any other professor I want to make up)
Or should I go with what you are saying? A torrent site...on the very edge of legality, and who knows it...just emails their site stats (which, since you are NOT in this business you wouldn't understand that is very confidential) over to some university where a highly respected "professor" takes these statistics and analyzes them. Then sends back the results to sumotorrent (because somehow they are too dumb to read their own tracking data)
Okay gideongallery. Okay.
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the mpaa numbers were gotten from the torrent client
the numbers were the publically displayed numbers from the swarm density
the problem with bit torrents it is a distributed network of computers which each send out data to all the other peers in the swarm
by default you can't hide your numbers since the number of seeder/leachers is exactly what you need to create the swarm.
If you hide seeders then leachers have nothing to connect too, once a leacher takes even a single piece they become seeders (ergo other leachers have nothing to connect too).
your an idiot if you think i need to have direct access to the server stats get an idea about how many times a file is traded on the swarm. IF that was true then the mpaa could not sue any torrent site, because they would not know how many times each file is downloaded.
In the case of the university professor who wrote the report all he would have to do is subscribe to the rss feed that came from sumotorrents.com, write a small script that recorded the number of downloads reported by the tracker during the seeding practise and he would have numbers as accurate as what the court recognized in the MPAA suits.
That the point sumotorrent didn't need to give the professor a god dam thing. The professor used sumotorrent as a data source because it has the rss feed subscription option but does not filter submitted torrents (no porn on mininova).