Tregetour@lemdro.idtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•What if... BitTorrent clients partially ignored the private bit of a torrent?English
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19 hours agoPrivate torrent content escapes naturally because it’s often shared on other P2P tools in use by the peers.
Australia tried this in the early noughties I believe - running a non-public URL blacklist. After some parliamentary accountability and commmitees got it cracked open, they found that about 10% of the sites met the definition for inclusion, with the remainder being a grab-bag of things various politicians and bureaucrats didn’t like.