It has come to notice that torrent clients: uTorrent and BitTorrent may spy on you on what you are downloading and provide information to some anti-piracy group. I am not against this anti-piracy group as piracy in any form is not good. It causes a big loss to software industry every year. However I feel that every one has a right to his / her privacy and by sending information on what user is downloading; these anti-piracy agencies is just breaking that rule. Torrent is a very good medium for legal file sharing and but some people use this network for warez too. Every thing in this world can be both used for good and bad, take example of knife which is used to cut vegetables can also be used to kill someone; similar is the case with torrent network. Stealing information on what people are downloading does not make good sense; something else should be thought of to stop piracy thru torrent. For the time, I’ll say to everyone not to use uTorrent and BitTorrent. Torrent websites like TorrentSpy and BitTorrent.com are also connected with this anti-piracy group so don’t use these websites too.

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