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Originally Posted by fidgit
I've not seen anyone mention privacy as the main concern, and for sure public torrents can get watched by pirate trackers, but even the most secure private trackers can be too. (I don't remember enough about newsgroups, but I'm sure that'll be 'watchable' too).
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Newsgroups are definitely MUCH harder for the pirate trackers to 'watch', if fact they can't watch them in the way that they can watch the torrents. The only way to track what you download from newsgroups would be to serve a court order on the usenet provider, but they would need some evidence first to get a court order, but it is hard for them to get evidence without the court order. Do you see the problem here? The people in the USA that got done for pirating music were caught downloading from public torrents - they are the 'easy target'.
Of course private torrents are a lot safer than public torrents and if the 'easy targets' are targeted first then most of us will be pretty safe on private torrent sites, at least for now.