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Good luck blocking p2p connections.
And when all the good trackers disappear how're you planning on making those connections?
Seriously? The same way we did before trackers existed.
Usenet is an option, I'll go back to IRC idgaf. They've tried to stop the scene since it's inception with extremely limited success. When they cut one head off, two more (smarter ones) sprout in its place.
Now that we're here, it'd be a worthwhile project to resurrect Gopher but route it all over Tor/i2p/Freenet/whatever as a gigantic fuck you to the powers that be. It's light so it could potentially run mobile, r-pis, cloud, whatever.
And you see this as an improvement?
I get you but it's just the nature of the beast. Short term losses for long term gains maybe?
You need users to make pirating work, more users = better. But with more users (eventually) comes attention from Big Business and LE.
FWIW, I can just load up pretty much any movie from about 100 different websites and stream any movie I can think of, I don't even need to find seeders or trackers or peers these days unless I want my own archival, higher quality copy.
My perspective is BT is probably fine as it is, as you say popular movies are everywhere, that won't change. Rare older stuff is what tends to get lost when trackers disappear (doubly so for private trackers) and they're the thing that benefits from more seeders. Is your average casual going to be seeding a vintage Linux ISO? I doubt it. Popular ISOs are going to be well enough seeded to to saturate just about any connection as it stands and ratio enforcement on privates should take care of people who like 15 year old Ubuntu livecds and the like. I just don't see any upside to BT being more mainstream.
Let the streaming sites and dodgy boxes have all the glory with the casuals and take the hit when the MPAA come knocking, no?