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You're like almost close to right, but not really at all.
The scene's FTP sites are NOT linked together, how insecure would that be? lol.. There is a centralized dupe system, and you can't get it, it's housed on a few mirrors and you can't "get the database" you can only query it, through secure channels.
The actual pirate scene tries to stay away from torrent sites and usenet, they're the biggest risk to it.
No matter which side you sit on about piracy, it's clear that we owe a lot of the advances of computers and the internet and the public's awareness of it on piracy. None of you bought Photoshop as a kid. None of you bought 3DSMax, and most of you pirated Windows. Let's cut the shit here. Without piracy, MS would not be as large as they are today, and this whole internet thing would be a LOT smaller. Piracy was the spark plug that ignited all of this.
The scene was meant to be a small loosely organized group of people trading things they'll most likely never use, but it got out of control and got too public. Now it's mainstream, and it's an issue for everyone, especially the people in the actual pirate scene because of increased risks. Almost all responsible groups stay away from usenet and torrents though, they like to keep things internal.
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