Thread: Only 0.3% of BIttorrent files are legal!

A new study has been making the rounds, concluding that only 0.3% of all files available on BitTorrent are confirmed to be ‘legal’. The results of the study were promoted by anti-piracy outfit AFACT and have been picked up by several news outlets, including Ars Technica and ZDNet, who all failed to see that the report is bogus.


ICSL claims that there are slightly more than a million torrent files to be found online, according to data obtained from 17 BitTorrent trackers this spring. They further come up with an overview of categories where applications account for 2.3% of all torrents, while movies and TV-shows are good for more than 70%.Both conclusions are horribly wrong.
We’re not sure how the researchers came up with the one million torrents because the OpenBitTorrent tracker, which is included in their sample, reports it has 2,5 million torrents alone. In addition, sites such as isoHunt index over 5 million unique torrents. Needless to say, ICSL’s data collection methods are far from accurate.An even bigger flaw is found in the categorization process. The categories are not based on the entire set of torrents, but only on the most-seeded ones, which heavily skews the data. Books and applications generally have a lower seed count than movie and TV-shows which means that they are underrepresented in the category overview.


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"BIttorrenting is Legal,But sharing copyrighted files is Illegal"

I remember reading that and then lauging, of course its gonna be unrealistic because a anti-piracy outfit was behind it.

We all know that, Bit-torrent help people from inaccessible areas to download the files.Imagine if you were in Iran,you have to travel 100+ miles to watch a movie or no shipping is done there,so for these people this is just easy to download as a torrent .

I don't know why, but I'm not surprised at all! :D

Now that sounds horrible eh? that's the main reason i started with private trackers years ago, it's harder to spot u then..

actually they cant imagine exact rate. but for me its normal. who doesnt downlaod a tiny song or a good movie? i looked my torrents, 183seeding+leeching but only 5of them legal(linux stuff). so tell me guys, how many torrents that u have on list that legal?

Originally Posted by hadihadi

so tell me guys, how many torrents that u have on list that legal?

All of them... Who downloads illegal content?

That's just absurd!

I think it is a fake !
10 % of all Torrents are legal

0.3% legal..wow..good something is legal..