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Originally posted by OzMan
Good question.
I have wondered that for years especially the ones that host movies for free download.
They have apparently virtually unlimited bandwidth and all they get out of it is the status of having the most current movies on THEIR particular server? 
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in some cases its the same people that have the downloads available that host the server, but most of the time it's a certain 'warez group'
all the bots people download from in those irc channels are hacked machines, usually win2k boxes with no defaults admin password. favorite target is univeristy machines and .jp lines (nice and fast)
they scan subnet after subnet looking for machine to take over.. and dump gigs of files to a subfolder in c:\winnt. then a program they've uploaded runs making it connect to irc and begin distrubuting warez