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>Another major blow will be to services such as Pirate Bay and Kodi.

For anyone unfamiliar, KODI is an excellent, open source media center program available on most major platforms. It started as a homebrew project (called XBMC) on the original Xbox game console. The name has become synonymous with piracy to some because there are popular 3rd party add-ons which allow streaming of potentially copyrighted media via links to files on cloud hosted file storage services. Depending on a user's jurisdiction, these files may be illegal to stream without appropriate permission.

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Sort of like BitTorrent in that it has legitimate and better known illegitimate uses?

Sort of like the internet :)

Nice come back, but for BitTorrent the illegal use case constitutes probably more than 95%

The stats for the Internet aren't much better, spam, porn etc....

Most (but not all!) porn is legal. Spam, in many jurisdictions, is legal when selling something legal.

Most of the porn is illegal because it violates copyrights, the 10 times reencoded scenerips on PornTUBE are not exactly official.

Most places have no solicitation laws and other privacy laws that do make spam illegal.

You also neee to count in piracy and general violations of copyright laws; you'll be surprised just how much content on youTube is illegal search for "full movie" or "last week tonight full show" and you'll gea quite a few legitimate hits.

Like it or not from a logistical point of view illegal content makes up the bulk of the traffic, that said it isn't any different in any other field if we take global shipping then illegal arms and drugs probably make a nice chunk of global shipping (revenue wise) there also it doesn't mean we need halt all global and local logistics operations.

Illegal porn rips on aggregate sites are uploaded by the producer themselves, who are usually a sister company or subsidiary. This is done in a very nudge nudge wink wink manner to drive ad impressions and sell exclusive content

It might be higher in volume because the data size for a single illegal movie is several orders of magnitude the size of text based media.

That's because the copyright law is built around "default deny" and infinitely prolonged copyright period.

Once you take both out of equation, the cases of content either abandoned by owners or reasonably old will take more than 5%.

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