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Third of Content On Popular BT Portals Are Fake

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:32AM from the that-sounds-optimistic dept.

siliconbits writes "A study published by a group of researchers, most of them based in Europe, analysed the publishers of content on two major BitTorrent portals, Pirate Bay and MiniNova, and found out that almost a third of all files on the two sites were fake."

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Same ratio as /. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-25 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Same ratio /. has for how many stories are real.
The point.. by minorproblem · 2011-01-25 05:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

One of the biggest benefits of torrents is that the fake crap gets weeded out quickly and the real torrents rise to the top with a high number of seeders. So it doesn't matter if its fake because it dies off quicker, than normal as people stop uploading it.