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Seeing an empty list is very reassuring to me.

Looking at it on ExpressVPN, yikes. 90% porn. I wonder what percentage of torrenting is just porn?

it’s mostly porn! I was researching some DHT crawler work recently and came across some interesting papers. Here’s a super fun high level read on someone who crawled the BitTorrent distributed hash table using a Sybil attack:

https://defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Wolc...

Why do people use a VPN for porn torrents? Do porn publishers send nasty letters to ISPs like the movie studios do?

Yes. It’s copyright in the same way.

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