Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 10, 2009 @03:31PM from the gradual-process-gets-noticed dept.

ericatcw writes "Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites like RapidShare, reports Computerworld. According to anti-piracy vendor V.I. Labs, 100% of the warez in its survey were available on RapidShare, which, according to Alexa, is already one of the 20 largest sites in the world. V.I. Labs' CEO predicts file-hosting sites such as RapidShare will supplant BitTorrent, as the former appear better protected legally."

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Can we stop calling it "piracy" already? by linuxhansl · 2009-10-10 16:30 · Score: 1, Flamebait

"Piracy" is a clever term coined by the music and file industry to associate file copying directly with stealing.
Existing information is replicated or copied nothing more and nothing less.
That may not be legal by current law, and there might be an "opportunity loss" for the content owner, but that is not "piracy" nor is it "stealing".
"Illegal content replication" just doesn't sound as snazzy and dirty as "piracy".