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A comment on Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents – Schneier on Security.

Re:Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents – Schneier on Secu... by smoyer on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:35AM (#12513546)
The second article linked from Schneier's post says the owner of KAT "gets the Megaupload treatment".

I think the first article is much closer to being correct - KAT is like The Pirate Bay as it "facilitates" copyright infringement. I still find it wrong that linking to other content can be deemed criminal (both in the case of trackers and that there are public resources you can't legally link to).

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Re:Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents – Schneier on Secu... by wslh on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:44AM (#12513588)
Google results contain torrents, so it can be difficult to make a difference with Kickass Torrents. Google can even detect if a file is a torrent or not and if it infringes copyright material with hashes and audio/video recognition.
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Re:Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents – Schneier on Secu... by watwatwatwat on Friday September 16, 2016 @09:41AM (#12513875)
> if it infringes copyright material with hashes and audio/video recognition.

which they already do with youtube

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