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Originally Posted by Robbie
gideongallery, we've had this argument over and over.
I'd just like to say that statistics can be skewed. We have no way of knowing that those percentages are correct.
But I CAN tell you this. EVERY person I have ever spoken with...including people who DON'T know what I do for a living...and I mean EVERY person: When I ask them about torrent sites the first word out of their mouth is PORN.
You are the only person I have ever heard say that they use it to store episodes of a television show.
And I'm not saying that millions of people don't do that. But I would say that there is no way that anybody can know what really goes on with a torrent site. Including the owner of the torrent site.
We have found our content on torrents and it was cleverly renamed. If a Claudia-Marie anal scene is on your torrent and it's given a title that doesn't imply porn at all then how would the owner of a torrent with millions of torrents have a clue whether it was a television show, a cracked software, a porn movie, or a ripped album?
They wouldn't. And it would never be in their best interest to know that anyway.
The only statistic they are looking at is traffic and how much they get paid for advertising spots. Any statistics on what is being downloaded would be impossible. They would pretty much have to download every bit torrent themselves individually and look at it and then categorize it. Impossible. And even if it were possible it would be like collecting evidence to incriminate yourself.
So no, I don't think those statistics are real at all.
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and the last time we had this "arguement" i documented exactly how you would/they did collect the stats.
1. they pulled the rss feed from sumotorrents (which at the time was a meta search engine for all the torrent trackers, including porn trackers)
2. they ran the subscription thru a torrent client
3. they read the downloaded count from the tracker stats.
It the same technique that the RIAA/MPAA uses to get their numbers for convicting the pirate bay. IF you are saying that it is not valid, you are basically saying that it is impossible to get a conviction EVER.
The KEY point is that since it is the same technique that the RIAA is using that means any skew because of "misnaming" would effect both number equally. It statistically cancells each other out.