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Porn, Piracy, & BitTorrent

By Keegan Hamilton

Seattle Weekly | August 16, 2011

As the film industry mounts a sketchy legal strategy in response to illegal downloads, many innocent internet surfers are serving as legal cannon fodder while moviemakers and their lawyers line their pockets with plunder.

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Tags: ButTorrent, Illegal Downloads, Movie Downloads, Pirated Movies

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