Mayor of Dreamsville wrote:
I'm no expert in this field, but don't these 'torrent' sites that share music rely on users having their personal collection merely availble for other users to help themselves to?
So there is no actual uploading to a server as such, but if user 'A' is using torrent sites and user 'B' searches for a certain record and it's in user 'A's collection, 'B' can download it from 'A' possibly without 'A' even knowing that they are sharing their music. I'm sure this is how the early file-sharing sites worked and assume it's the same for torrent sites?
So it maybe that Bill's fans buy his CDs legitimately (and rip them to their computers), then illegally use torrent sites to download OTHER music, but inadvertantly share all their BN collection with the rest of the world...is that possible?
Somebody with a better knowledge of the workings of it all maybe able to put me right on a few of those points.
Jon.
This is not the case with Torrent sites. You would have to create a torrent for others to download. Therefore if there are Bill torrents available they are not accidental but have been created to be shared. To be fair I think the Russian sites are more of a threat to Bills work than torrent sites.
H